HowToVietnamese
Course
Southern Vietnamese learning website with free beginner courses on pronunciation and basic grammar, plus paid video lessons, eBooks, and story listening packs.
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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HowToVietnamese
Course
Southern Vietnamese YouTube channel with clear beginner lessons on pronunciation, basic grammar, and useful everyday vocabulary, plus links to paid extras.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Grammar
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for learning Vietnamese grammar through tagged example sentences with audio, spaced review, and a step by step study order.
PolyChat
Course
Mobile app with Vietnamese lessons, vocab games, conjugation drills, AI role-play chat, and a built-in translator for everyday practice.
VietnamesePod101
Course Flash Cards
Website with structured Vietnamese audio and video lessons, transcripts, notes, quizzes, flashcards, and optional teacher feedback.
PhoSpeak
Course
Mobile Vietnamese course with teacher videos, tone recording feedback, listening drills, and captioned stories built around Northern speech.
VietnamesePod101
Course
YouTube lessons from VietnamesePod101 that teach beginner Vietnamese through short videos on phrases, grammar, pronunciation, and culture.
123Vietnamese
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese school with in-person classes in Vietnam, live online lessons, and a beginner self-study video course with quizzes and free sample lessons.
Wordwall Exercises
Course Tutoring
Southern Vietnamese learning website with free blog lessons, audio, quizzes, and paid pronunciation videos plus private Skype tutoring.
Your Vietnamese
Free Vietnamese learning blog with short grammar lessons, practical how to say posts, and simple tools for typing and number practice.
Levion
Course Tutoring
Subscription website with self paced Vietnamese courses, a free level test, and optional Zoom A1 and A2 classes for beginners.
Book
Essential Vietnamese
Dictionary Phrasebook
Compact Vietnamese phrasebook and mini dictionary for travel and daily basics, with quick lookup terms, sample sentences, and brief grammar help.
Learn Vietnamese With Jane
Course
Free YouTube lessons for beginners learning Southern Vietnamese, with a clear path through alphabet, tones, pronunciation, grammar, and listening.
Website
Vietnamese Language and Culture
Course Flash Cards
Free SEAsite website with 20 spoken Vietnamese lessons, Hanoi-based pronunciation audio, quizzes, and extra culture pages for early learners.
Clozemaster
Flash Cards
Mobile app for learning Vietnamese through fill in the blank sentence drills, with spaced review, audio, and AI explanations for wrong answers.
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.
italki
Tutoring
Website for booking 1-on-1 Vietnamese lessons with independent teachers, with trial classes, flexible scheduling, and optional AI study tools.
Book
Learning Vietnamese
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with 13 lessons, dialogues, drills, cultural notes, and free online audio plus printable flashcards.
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.