Mobile App
LingoDeer
Course Flash Cards Phrasebook
Structured Vietnamese lessons in a mobile app with native audio, grammar notes, speaking practice, flashcard reviews, and a travel phrasebook.
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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Podcast
VTM 1
Free Southern Vietnamese podcast with short native-speaker episodes, transcripts, and related videos and articles for listening practice.
Mobile App
Mango Languages
Course
Vietnamese course app with short dialogue lessons, native audio, grammar notes, and voice comparison for guided self-study.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Study System
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for systematic Vietnamese study with spaced repetition, focused on building vocabulary and common phrases through regular review.
Mobile App
Learn Vietnamese Phrases
Phrasebook
Offline Vietnamese phrasebook app with native audio, search, and voice recording to help beginners learn useful travel and daily phrases.
Website
LangHub
Course Phrasebook
Free Vietnamese lessons with themed word and phrase lists, plus downloadable MP3, PDF, and text files for self-study by level.
Book
The Colors of Tet
Readers
Bilingual Vietnamese-English board book for kids that teaches basic colors through Tết objects and traditions, with stickers and QR bonus content.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 3 Medium
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck of medium-length Vietnamese sentences with English translations and audio on both sides for listening drills, shadowing, and review.
Podcast
Vietnamese Learning Accelerator
Phrasebook
Free podcast with short English to Vietnamese phrase drills, repeated Vietnamese audio, and episode transcripts to follow while you listen.
Mobile App
Learn Vietnamese Language
Course Flash Cards Phrasebook
Mobile app for beginner to intermediate Vietnamese with Northern audio, short lessons, phrasebook, alphabet practice, grammar notes, and quizzes.
Mobile App
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
Course
Mobile app for learning Southern Vietnamese through short dialogue lessons with audio, transcripts, English explanations, vocab review, and exercises.
Book
Tiếng Việt 123 Level B1
Course
Intermediate Vietnamese textbook with 8 themed lessons, 2 review units, and downloadable audio in both Northern and Southern accents.
Book
Vietnamese With Stories: A Vietnamese Story Book for Beginners
Readers
Beginner Vietnamese reader with 24 short daily-life stories, English translations, vocabulary lists, and a simple pronunciation guide.
YouTube
Lilian Vietnamese
Comprehensible Input
Free YouTube channel with beginner friendly Vietnamese comprehensible input videos that use slow speech and visuals to build listening and vocabulary.
Anki Deck
Learn Vietnamese with Colored Tones
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for learning Vietnamese vocabulary with tone-based colors, plus audio on many cards to support review, listening, and tone awareness.
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.