Website
LingoHut
Course
Free Vietnamese website with 125 short lessons for everyday words and phrases, using native audio, simple drills, and quick review games.
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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Book
FSI Vietnamese Basic Course Volume 1
Course
Free FSI Vietnamese course book with PDFs and long Southern audio drills that take you from pronunciation practice through structured early lessons.
Anki Deck
Southern Vietnamese Study Deck
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for studying Southern Vietnamese vocabulary and common phrases, useful if you want Saigon-style word choice in daily review.
Podcast
Fluent Fiction
Daily Vietnamese podcast stories with audio, line by line Vietnamese and English replay, plus transcripts and vocabulary on the website.
Book
Tiếng Việt Nâng Cao Dành Cho Người Nước Ngoài Quyển 2
Course
Advanced Vietnamese textbook for foreign learners with 12 themed units and review sections on daily life, culture, and practical topics.
Language School
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
Course Tutoring
Southern Vietnamese school with self paced dialogue lessons, app access, and one to one classes for learners who want guided practice.
Anki Deck
Southern Vietnamese Language Pack
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for building Southern Vietnamese vocabulary and everyday expressions, with a Ho Chi Minh City style focus for daily review.
Website
Preply: Speak Vietnamese with Confidence
Tutoring
1-on-1 lessons with native tutors. Build real conversation skills from day one — Northern and Southern dialects.
Website
EchoMeo
Course Flash Cards Dictionary
Free website for Vietnamese vocabulary practice with gamified lessons, flashcards, listening quizzes, and audio in Northern, Central, and Southern accents.
Language School
SVFF
Course Tutoring
SVFF is a Southern Vietnamese school with structured levels, 1-on-1 lessons, free YouTube samples, and a paid podcast app with transcripts and quizzes.
Mobile App
PhoSpeak
Course
Mobile Vietnamese course with teacher videos, tone recording feedback, listening drills, and captioned stories built around Northern speech.
YouTube
Learn Vietnamese With Jane
Course
Free YouTube lessons for beginners learning Southern Vietnamese, with a clear path through alphabet, tones, pronunciation, grammar, and listening.
Browser Extension
Migaku
Flash Cards Dictionary
Browser extension that turns Vietnamese videos and web text into clickable lookups, then saves words and sentences as SRS flashcards.
Website
Thư trạm
Course Dictionary
Free website with a lesson-based Vietnamese grammar guide and a searchable grammar dictionary for self-study from beginner basics onward.
Website
VietnamesePod101
Course Flash Cards
Website with structured Vietnamese audio and video lessons, transcripts, notes, quizzes, flashcards, and optional teacher feedback.
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.