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Course Phrasebook
Free Vietnamese lessons with themed word and phrase lists, plus downloadable MP3, PDF, and text files for self-study by level.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice. Not sure where to start? Try our Resource Finder.
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Tandem
Language exchange app for practicing Vietnamese with native speakers through chat, voice notes, audio calls, video calls, and built-in corrections.
Vietnamese Course
Course
Free web archive of the Cortina Vietnamese course with one textbook PDF and many audio tracks for self paced study and shadowing.
Nemo
Flash Cards Phrasebook
Mobile app for learning useful Vietnamese words and travel phrases with native audio, offline study, and a record-and-compare pronunciation tool.
Falou
Course Flash Cards
Mobile app for beginner Vietnamese through short real-life dialogues, speech practice, pronunciation feedback, and review lessons.
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
Course
A YouTube channel for Southern Vietnamese with lesson playlists on pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and short everyday dialogues.
Mango Languages
Course
Vietnamese course app with short dialogue lessons, native audio, grammar notes, and voice comparison for guided self-study.
Pimsleur
Course
Audio-first Vietnamese app with 30 guided lessons, reading practice, flashcards, and pronunciation tools built around short daily study.
Let's Speak Vietnamese
A YouTube channel from a Vietnamese school with free lesson videos on pronunciation, tones, and practical Vietnamese for daily life.
Go Vietnamese
Vietnamese learning podcast with natural stories, slow and normal versions, and free transcripts for learners focused on Central and Southern accents.
HowToVietnamese
A Southern Vietnamese podcast with short beginner lessons and slow true stories, plus transcripts and extra study materials on the site.
123Vietnamese
Free YouTube lessons from 123Vietnamese covering beginner Vietnamese basics, pronunciation practice, and some culture and travel content.
ProDict Eng Viet Dictionary
Dictionary
Free Android dictionary app for English and Vietnamese lookups with offline access, example sentences, collocations, and English definitions.
Podcast
Learn Vietnamese Fluently, Easily and Effectively
Course
Free Spotify album with beginner Vietnamese audio lessons you can play in order for self-study, with a simple listen-and-repeat approach.
Vietnamese Dictionary
Dictionary
Free website for Vietnamese, English, and French word lookup, with multi-dictionary search, browse lists, and a short English-Vietnamese translator.
VietSpeech
Flash Cards
Free printable VietSpeech PDFs for families with speech cards, a bilingual workbook, and simple guides to help children speak Vietnamese and English.
Website
Vietnamese Accent Marks
Free website that restores Vietnamese diacritics in unaccented text, lets you correct words manually, and can remove accents again.
Vietnamese Learning Accelerator
Phrasebook
Free podcast with short English to Vietnamese phrase drills, repeated Vietnamese audio, and episode transcripts to follow while you listen.
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.