Book
FSI Vietnamese Basic Course Volume 1
A free Southern Vietnamese course book with 10 structured units, intensive pronunciation practice, grammar drills, and about 15 hours of audio.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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Website
Loecsen
A beginner Vietnamese website with 17 A1 chapters, Northern audio, travel phrases, grammar notes, and interactive listening and speaking tests.
Book
Vietnam Now! A Vietnamese Language Reader
A bilingual Vietnamese-English reader with graded news articles, literature, notes, exercises, photos, and native-speaker audio.
Mobile App
50 Languages
Beginner Vietnamese app with 100 audio-text lessons, practical phrases, vocabulary practice, and quizzes for everyday situations.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Vocabulary Builder
Free Anki flashcards for learning the Vietnamese alphabet with spaced repetition, useful for daily review of letters and diacritics.
Anki Deck
Basic Vietnamese for English Speakers: Text-To-Speech
Free Anki deck with about 1,100 Vietnamese word and phrase cards, tone colors, a tone chart, tags, and Apple text-to-speech audio.
Website
MyLanguages.org
Free Vietnamese reference website with grammar pages, themed word lists, common phrases, selected native audio, a dictionary, and a short quiz.
Book
Tuttle Concise Vietnamese Dictionary
A compact two-way Vietnamese-English dictionary with 25,000 entries, sample sentences, usage notes, and a pronunciation guide.
Website
Vietnamese Phrases
A free bilingual phrase list with 100+ Vietnamese greetings, everyday expressions, travel questions, and basic conversation lines.
Social Media
Vitamese
Free Instagram reels and posts for Southern Vietnamese pronunciation, everyday phrases, podcast clips, and practical culture notes.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Study System
Free Anki deck with 1,000 basic Vietnamese words, English meanings, Northern IPA, grammar details, and partial Chữ Nôm forms.
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.
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.
Website
Video Vocab
Free website that turns selected Vietnamese YouTube clips into vocabulary, listening, and short reflection or recording practice.
YouTube
SVFF
Southern Vietnamese YouTube lessons from native teachers covering pronunciation, everyday vocabulary, grammar, dialogues, and listening practice.
Book
Vietnamese Flashcards: Important Flash Cards
Paid Vietnamese-English flashcard ebook with about 2,000 words, arranged by topic and frequency for bidirectional offline vocabulary review.
Website
italki
Book flexible 1-on-1 Vietnamese lessons with independent tutors, compare profiles and prices, and use discounted trials to find a good fit.
YouTube
VietnamesePod101
A free YouTube library of short Vietnamese lessons on vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, listening, and culture, mainly for beginners.
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.