Go Vietnamese
Course Tutoring
Da Nang based Vietnamese school with in person and online lessons, plus a free podcast and transcripts for extra listening practice.
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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PhoSpeak
Course
Mobile Vietnamese course with teacher videos, tone recording feedback, listening drills, and captioned stories built around Northern speech.
Yen Tindall
Short YouTube lessons from Yen Tindall that teach everyday Vietnamese with quick explanations, pronunciation help, and song-based practice.
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.
Vietnamese in a Flash Kit Volume 1
Flash Cards
A boxed flashcard kit with 448 Vietnamese words and phrases, sample sentences, tone marks, and a booklet for themed vocabulary study. ISBN-13 9780804847711.
VKids Numbers
Course
Kids app for learning numbers 0 to 9 through tracing, simple math, mini-games, and audio. Better for preschool numeracy than Vietnamese study.
Unite For Literacy
Readers
Free children's picture-book website with 400 plus short books, simple text, and audio narration in many languages for early reading practice.
DLI Vietnamese Language Phonology Course
Course
Free DLI phonology workbook with five audio drill tracks and a built in recorder for practicing Vietnamese sounds, spelling patterns, and tones.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 5 Long
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with long Vietnamese sentences, English translations, and audio on both sides for sentence review, shadowing, and dictation practice.
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.
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.
Flashcardo
Flash Cards
Free Vietnamese flashcards by topic and top 1,000 words, with audio, printable PDFs, video decks, and an online spaced repetition study mode.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Study Cards
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for practicing basic Vietnamese words and everyday phrases with spaced repetition, so you can review a little at a time.
Rosetta Stone
Course Phrasebook
Image-based Vietnamese app with structured lessons, pronunciation feedback, Stories, and a travel Phrasebook for daily self-study.
Hello World
Flash Cards Dictionary
Free Vietnamese learning website with picture vocabulary, flashcards, songs, and simple word games that work well for beginners and kids.
Langi
Flash Cards Readers
Southern Vietnamese learning website with graded short stories, audio dictation, and spaced repetition review to build reading and listening step by step.
Website
Idiomatic Expressions
Dictionary
Free A to Z list of Vietnamese idioms with short English translations. Good for quick lookup, reading practice, and picking up common expressions.
Street Interviews
Comprehensible Input
Short street interview videos from Ho Chi Minh City with Vietnamese and English subtitles, useful for real-world listening and everyday vocabulary.
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.