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Search Vietnamese words and phrases, hear user-contributed native audio, compare voices, and save or download clips with a free account.
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
Tiếng Việt Thực Hành
Free blog library for heritage learners with printable textbooks, dialogue books, exercises, student writing, and children’s stories.
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Visaurus
A free Vietnamese thesaurus with 47,000+ entries that returns synonyms and near-synonyms for quick word choice and vocabulary lookup.
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The Voice Of Vietnam
A free VOV World website with Vietnamese audio lessons organized from A2 to C2, covering grammar, vocabulary, and cultural topics.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Learning Deck
Free Anki deck for Northern Vietnamese pronunciation with audio, images, spelling guides, and minimal-pair drills for core sounds.
Mobile App
Duolingo
A gamified Vietnamese course with short Northern-dialect lessons that drill vocabulary, sentence patterns, reading, and listening.
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LingoHut
Free website with 125 five-minute Vietnamese vocabulary lessons, audio, flashcards, and simple games for everyday words and phrases.
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EchoMeo
Vietnamese practice website with gamified vocabulary drills, graded readings, TTS audio, AI chat, and three regional pronunciation options.
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VietnamesePod101
Prefer a ready-made system? Review Northern Vietnamese with native audio, example sentences, and spaced-repetition flashcards tied to structured lessons.
Anki Deck
Northern Vietnamese Vocabulary
Free Anki deck for studying Northern Vietnamese vocabulary and everyday expressions with spaced repetition for quick, repeatable review.
Book
Vietnamese Tone: A New Analysis
An academic study of Northern Vietnamese tones, covering tone inventory, acoustic evidence, phonetics, phonology, and syllable structure.
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Vtudien
Free Vietnamese dictionary website with multilingual lookup, pronunciation audio, examples, and specialist terms for quick reference.
Book
Tuttle Compact Vietnamese Dictionary
A two-way Vietnamese-English print dictionary with 25,000 entries, example sentences, idioms, grammar notes, and a pronunciation guide.
YouTube
SVFF
Southern Vietnamese YouTube lessons from native teachers covering pronunciation, everyday vocabulary, grammar, dialogues, and listening practice.
YouTube
Actually Understand Vietnamese
YouTube channel with graded Vietnamese comprehensible input videos, mainly in a Southern accent, using stories, visuals, and subtitles.
Social Media
VTV
Free TikTok clips for quick Vietnamese study, with short phrase lessons, pronunciation practice, and bite sized review you can fit into a daily scroll.
Book
Periplus Pocket Vietnamese Dictionary
Pocket Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese dictionary with 15,000+ entries plus brief grammar and pronunciation guidance.
Mobile App
Vietnamese Dictionary Dict Box
Offline Vietnamese-English dictionary app with 500,000+ entries, translation, text-to-speech pronunciation, and picture-based word review.
About the Library
The Library 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
The Library lists structured learning resources designed to teach you Vietnamese: apps, textbooks, courses, decks, and dictionaries. The Media section covers native input for practice, such as YouTube channels, podcasts, news sites, and dubbed shows. Most learners use both. Start with the Library to build foundations, then add 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, the Library is a mix. Some 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.