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Learn Northern & Southern Vietnamese Phrasebook
Travel phrasebook app with 1,000+ Vietnamese phrases, Northern and Southern native audio, spaced-repetition flashcards, and quizzes.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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VietnamesePod101
A website course with Northern Vietnamese audio and video lessons, transcripts, quizzes, flashcards, and optional teacher feedback.
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italki
Book flexible 1-on-1 Vietnamese lessons with independent tutors, compare profiles and prices, and use discounted trials to find a good fit.
Anki Deck
Northern Vietnamese Flashcards
Free Anki deck with about 5,800 Northern Vietnamese vocabulary notes and native audio, adapted from a community Memrise course.
Anki Deck
Memrise Optimized
Free Anki deck with nearly 6,000 Northern Vietnamese cards, arranged in course order and mostly paired with native audio.
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DLI Vietnamese Language Phonology Course
Free 62-page Hanoi Vietnamese phonology drill book with five audio tracks for practicing vowels, consonants, spelling patterns, and tones.
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Learn Vietnamese: Saigon
An iPhone and Apple Watch app for Southern Vietnamese, with structured lessons, vocabulary cards, native audio, and tone and listening drills.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 2 Short Medium
Free Anki deck with short to medium Vietnamese sentences, English translations, and text-to-speech audio for listening and review.
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FSI Vietnamese Familiarization Course
Free 1969 Southern Vietnamese textbook with 12 dialogue-based lessons, grammar notes, oral pattern drills, exercises, and a glossary.
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Colloquial Vietnamese
Editors' Choice Course
A 14-unit beginner Vietnamese textbook with practical dialogues, clear grammar, exercises, answer keys, and free native-speaker audio.
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Memrise
A freemium Vietnamese app with spaced vocabulary review, native-speaker videos, short lessons, and AI-supported speaking practice.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 5 Long
Free Anki deck of long Vietnamese sentences with English translations and text-to-speech audio for listening, recall, shadowing, and dictation.
Anki Deck
Southern Vietnamese Language Pack
Free Anki deck of 3,000 Southern Vietnamese sentence cards with English, IPA, Chữ Nôm, and audio for spaced repetition review.
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Udemy
A marketplace for self-paced Vietnamese video courses across levels and dialects, with free previews and individual course purchases.
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Flexi Classes
Live Southern Vietnamese lessons with native teachers, bookable 24/7 in small groups or 1-on-1, with structured levels and PDFs.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 1 Short
Free Anki deck of short Vietnamese sentences with English and Vietnamese text-to-speech audio for beginner listening and vocabulary review.
Anki Deck
Southern Vietnamese Study Deck
Free Anki deck with about 200 Southern-focused words and phrases, native audio on every note, and two-way cards for daily review.
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Drops
Drops teaches Southern-accented Vietnamese vocabulary and common phrases through five-minute visual games, native audio, quizzes, and spaced review.
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.