Website
Flexi Classes
Course Tutoring
Website for live Vietnamese lessons with native teachers, with small group or 1-on-1 classes any time of day plus downloadable lesson materials.
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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Website
English–Vietnamese Dictionary
Dictionary
Free Cambridge website for looking up English words with Vietnamese translations, simple definitions, example sentences, and UK and US audio.
Blog
Vietnamese Conversation
Course
Southern Vietnamese learning blog with bilingual lessons, dialogues, vocab, short readings, and YouTube audio across beginner to advanced levels.
Podcast
Learn Vietnamese Easy
Course
Six short beginner podcast episodes on greetings, family, numbers, and basic sentences, plus a quick review test for extra repetition.
Social Media
Vietnamese with Thảo
Instagram account from Vietnamese with Thảo sharing short Vietnamese tips and culture posts, with a clear Southern pronunciation and grammar focus.
Language School
iSpeak Vietlingo
Course Tutoring
Hanoi-based Vietnamese school offering private and group classes, plus Vietnamese with Ease books and a companion podcast for beginner practice.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Vocabulary Builder
Flash Cards
Free Anki flashcards for learning the Vietnamese alphabet with spaced repetition, useful for daily review of letters and diacritics.
Book
Vietnamese with Ease 2
Course
Pre-intermediate Vietnamese textbook with 15 themed lessons, QR-code audio, and practice across conversation, reading, writing, grammar, and pronunciation.
Mobile App
Ling
Course
Freemium Vietnamese app with short lessons, native-speaker audio, dialogues, and speaking games for building everyday vocabulary and phrases.
Website
Language Survival Kit Modules
Phrasebook
Free DLIFLC website with Vietnamese survival phrases, audio for each line, romanization, and printable downloads for quick travel or field use.
Website
YouGlish Vietnamese
Dictionary
Search Vietnamese words or phrases and hear them in short YouTube clips with captions, so you can study real pronunciation and usage in context.
Book
Vietnamese Flashcards: Important Flash Cards
Flash Cards
A paid Vietnamese-English flashcard ebook with around 2,000 vocabulary items, organized by topic and frequency for offline self-study.
Podcast
Go Vietnamese
Vietnamese learning podcast with natural stories, slow and normal versions, and free transcripts for learners focused on Central and Southern accents.
YouTube
Slow Vietnamese
Comprehensible Input
YouTube channel with slow, clear Vietnamese videos and podcasts for listening practice. Patreon adds transcripts, audio, and vocab review.
YouTube
Viet Deep Dive
A free YouTube channel with Vietnamese-focused explainer videos for learners who like self-paced study and longer context.
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.