Website
Levion
Subscription website with 11 self-paced Vietnamese courses, free lesson previews and level testing, plus small-group and private Zoom classes.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice.
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Language School
Go Vietnamese
Da Nang Vietnamese school offering private and small-group classes online or in person, with a practical focus on speaking and pronunciation.
YouTube
Vitamese
Southern Vietnamese YouTube channel with short listening practice, podcast clips, pronunciation guides, and beginner vocabulary videos.
Book
DLI Vietnamese Basic Language Course
A free 100-lesson DLI textbook course in Northern Vietnamese, with downloadable PDFs, grammar drills, readings, and matching audio.
Book
Mini Vietnamese Dictionary
A pocket Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese dictionary with 15,000 words and expressions, plus pronunciation and grammar help.
Language School
Center for Vietnamese Language for Foreigners
University-run Vietnamese school in Ho Chi Minh City offering structured group, evening, online, skills, and test-prep courses.
Mobile App
Ultimate Lac Viet Dictionary
English-Vietnamese and Vietnamese-English dictionary app with 300,000 words and phrases, examples, pronunciation, bookmarks, and grammar.
Podcast
SVFF
Short Southern Vietnamese lessons built around everyday dialogues, with vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and guided listening practice.
Website
Bài Tập Tiếng Việt Online
Free website with self-check Vietnamese tests for vocabulary, reading, listening, and sentence building, aimed at level A learners.
Book
Vietnamese in 40 Minutes
A 44-minute Collins audio phrasebook teaching essential Vietnamese travel and everyday phrases through listen-and-repeat practice.
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
Vietnamese Sentences Level 3 Medium
Free Anki deck with medium-length Vietnamese sentences, English translations, and TTS audio for spaced review, listening, and shadowing.
Website
English–Vietnamese Dictionary
Free English-to-Vietnamese web dictionary with 40,000+ entries, short definitions, usage examples, and UK and US English audio.
Podcast
VTM 1
Short Southern Vietnamese listening episodes with natural native speech, everyday topics, and transcripts for intermediate learners.
Website
Omniglot
Free Vietnamese writing guide with the Quốc Ngữ alphabet, tone notes, regional pronunciation details, sample text, and Northern and Southern audio.
Book
Continuing Vietnamese
A 10-lesson intermediate Vietnamese textbook with Hanoi dialogues, formal readings, drills, cultural notes, and 10 hours of native audio.
YouTube
How to Speak with a Southern Vietnamese Accent
Free YouTube lesson explaining Saigon-style sound changes through paired examples you can hear and repeat for Southern accent practice.
Website
FluentSaigon
A browser-based Southern Vietnamese phrase and vocabulary trainer with native Saigon audio, cheat sheets, and randomized quizzes.
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.