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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.
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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Colloquial Vietnamese
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with structured lessons, grammar, exercises, and free native-speaker audio for the dialogues and reading passages.
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Wordwall Exercises
Course Tutoring
Southern Vietnamese learning website with free blog lessons, audio, quizzes, and paid pronunciation videos plus private Skype tutoring.
Book
Let's Learn Vietnamese Kit
Flash Cards
A boxed Vietnamese starter kit with 64 illustrated flashcards, a wall chart, and online audio to build basic words and pronunciation.
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.
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italki
Tutoring
Website for booking 1-on-1 Vietnamese lessons with independent teachers, with trial classes, flexible scheduling, and optional AI study tools.
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Loecsen
Course Phrasebook
Free Vietnamese website for beginners with A1 lessons, native audio, travel phrases, short tests, and clear notes on tones and everyday usage.
Book
Essential Vietnamese Grammar
English-language reference grammar with 12 chapters, exercises, answer keys, and online audio for every example sentence.
Mobile App
Memrise
Course Flash Cards
Mobile app for learning Vietnamese through short scenario lessons, spaced review, native speaker video clips, and AI speaking practice.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Study Collection
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for reviewing Northern Vietnamese words and everyday phrases with spaced repetition and steady recall practice.
YouTube
vietnamesewithhue
Course
Free beginner YouTube lessons in Northern Vietnamese that teach core grammar, sentence patterns, and everyday topics through short videos.
Podcast
SynapseLingo
Free Vietnamese podcast with short story lessons and separate vocabulary review episodes to build listening skills and everyday words.
Anki Deck
Northern Vietnamese Flashcards
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for building Northern Vietnamese vocabulary with a Hanoi-focused word set for learners who want dialect-specific flashcard review.
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Glosbe
Dictionary
Free English-Vietnamese dictionary website with example sentences, audio, images, and a built-in translator for quick word and phrase lookup.
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Vietnamese Idioms
Phrasebook
Free forum page with Vietnamese idioms grouped by theme and matched with English meanings or similar sayings for quick reading practice.
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.