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Southern Vietnamese for Beginners
Course
Beginner textbook for spoken Southern Vietnamese with 20 story-based chapters, glossaries, grammar notes, and companion audio and video.
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.
Yen Tindall
Short YouTube lessons from Yen Tindall that teach everyday Vietnamese with quick explanations, pronunciation help, and song-based practice.
Blog
Vietnamese Conversation
Course
Southern Vietnamese learning blog with bilingual lessons, dialogues, vocab, short readings, and YouTube audio across beginner to advanced levels.
VietnamesePod101
Course Flash Cards
Mobile app for VietnamesePod101 lessons with audio and video courses, transcripts, quizzes, flashcards, and optional teacher feedback.
123Vietnamese
Free YouTube lessons from 123Vietnamese covering beginner Vietnamese basics, pronunciation practice, and some culture and travel content.
vietnamesewithhue
Course
Free beginner YouTube lessons in Northern Vietnamese that teach core grammar, sentence patterns, and everyday topics through short videos.
Website
Elementary Vietnamese Grammar
Free blog that republishes 30 Vietnamese grammar units with English explanations, examples, and written practice on easily confused forms.
Preply
Tutoring
Website for booking 1-on-1 Vietnamese lessons with independent tutors, with trial classes, filters, scheduling, and a recurring subscription.
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.
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
Elementary Vietnamese
Course
Beginner textbook with 14 structured lessons, dialogues, grammar, drills, and free audio and flashcards for building core Vietnamese.
Book
Vietnamese with Ease 1
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with dialogue-based lessons, English explanations, picture vocabulary, and QR audio for pronunciation and listening practice.
Book
Vietnamese for Beginners
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with strong tone and alphabet practice, manga-style dialogues, grammar notes, audio, and printable flashcards.
LingoDeer
Course Flash Cards Phrasebook
Structured Vietnamese lessons in a mobile app with native audio, grammar notes, speaking practice, flashcard reviews, and a travel phrasebook.
r/learnvietnamese
Reddit community where Vietnamese learners ask questions, swap study resources, and get informal help with grammar, vocab, and tones.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Language Essentials
Flash Cards
Free Anki shared deck for building essential Vietnamese vocabulary and phrases with spaced repetition study you can review at your own pace.
MyLanguages.org
Dictionary Phrasebook
Free Vietnamese website with basic grammar pages, word lists, common phrases, audio examples, and a short beginner quiz in one place.
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.