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17 Minute Languages
Browser-based Vietnamese course with short daily drills, native audio, grammar help, and Northern and Southern variants from A1 to C2.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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Blog
More Vietnamese
Free Vietnamese learning blog with pronunciation guides, practical study advice, and a level-organized directory covering Northern and Southern resources.
Podcast
Vietnamese Shadowing
Free Vietnamese shadowing podcast with short topic-based monologues and transcripts for listening, reading, and pronunciation practice.
YouTube
Lilian Vietnamese
Free YouTube lessons use slow Vietnamese, visuals, and everyday topics to give beginner and intermediate learners comprehensible input.
Website
Vietnamese Language and Culture
Free website with 20 beginner spoken Vietnamese lessons, Hanoi-based pronunciation audio, grammar notes, exercises, and culture pages.
YouTube
HowToVietnamese
A Southern Vietnamese YouTube channel with beginner lessons on tones, pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and slow listening stories.
Language School
Tieng Viet Oi
Vietnamese language school with online and in-person private or group classes, practical conversation work, and three dialect choices.
Website
iLanguages
Free Vietnamese website with common words, everyday phrases, audio, alphabet notes, flashcards, and a short vocabulary quiz.
YouTube
Learn Vietnamese With Jane
Free YouTube lessons in Southern Vietnamese, with a guided path through pronunciation, tones, grammar, vocabulary, and listening practice.
YouTube
Learn Vietnamese with Annie
Free YouTube lessons in Southern Vietnamese covering pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and short dialogues for everyday listening.
Mobile App
Nemo
Flashcard and phrasebook app for useful Vietnamese, with Southern native audio, offline study, and record-and-compare pronunciation.
Mobile App
Rosetta Stone
A structured mobile course for Northern Vietnamese using images, native audio, short drills, and instant pronunciation feedback.
Website
HowToVietnamese
Southern Vietnamese website with free beginner courses, paid video lessons, audio-supported eBooks, and short-story listening packs.
Podcast
Fluent Fiction
A Vietnamese podcast with bilingual short stories, sentence-by-sentence replay, full transcripts, and vocabulary lists for listening practice.
Language School
Go Vietnamese
Da Nang Vietnamese school offering private and small-group classes online or in person, with a practical focus on speaking and pronunciation.
Podcast
Go Vietnamese
Free Vietnamese podcast with natural stories, slow and normal audio, transcripts, and exposure to Da Nang and Southern accents.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Study Collection
Free Anki deck for reviewing Northern Vietnamese words and everyday phrases with spaced repetition and steady recall practice.
Language School
Let's Speak Vietnamese
Live Vietnamese school with private and group classes online or in person, an A1-C2 pathway, native teachers, and three dialect options.
About Learning Resources
The learning resources section is the structured side of this website. Apps, textbooks, Anki and flash card decks, online courses, language schools, and dictionaries — the resources actually built to teach you Vietnamese in an organised way. Each resource has a short summary, pros and cons, and a note on who it fits best.
No resource is great at everything. Some are strong for reading and weak for listening. Some have great content trapped behind a clunky app. Some only cover one dialect well. The pros and cons on each page call these things out, so you find out before you've spent a weekend on something that wasn't going to work for you anyway.
Everything here is tagged by dialect, format, cost, and the skills it trains. The filters cut a long list down fast: pick Northern or Southern, free or paid, mobile or desktop, listening-focused or grammar-focused, and most of the noise disappears.
FAQ
Learning resources are designed to teach you Vietnamese: apps, textbooks, courses, decks, and dictionaries. Vietnamese media is native input for practice, such as YouTube channels, podcasts, news sites, and dubbed shows. Most learners use both. Start with learning resources to build foundations, then add Vietnamese media once you can recognize basic words and want to train your ear on natural speech.
We look at whether a resource teaches Vietnamese in a useful way, whether the audio quality is acceptable, and whether it is still available and maintained. Each entry has a short review with pros and cons and a note on who it suits best. We do not include resources that are abandoned, broken, or that have not enough valueable content.
Nothing beats a good teacher. Classes — online or face-to-face — give you live feedback on pronunciation, real conversation practice, and someone who can answer the questions a textbook cannot. If classes are not an option, the next best setup is one main course or app to give you structure, a vocabulary review tool such as an Anki deck, and a dictionary you keep open while studying. Our beginner's guide walks through this in detail, with specific picks for both Northern and Southern learners.
No. Some learning resources are completely free, like Anki decks and many online dictionaries. Some are paid, like most textbooks and language schools. And some are freemium, like apps that give you a beginner course for free but charge for the full content. Use the cost filter to narrow the catalog down to free, freemium, or paid resources only.
Yes. Each resource is tagged with the dialect or dialects it covers. Use the dialect filter to see only Northern, Central or Southern resources. Some entries are dialect-neutral, like dictionaries and grammar references, because written Vietnamese is the same nationwide. If you are unsure which dialect to learn, our Northern and Southern dialect guides explain the differences and how to choose.