Vietnamese Headstart2
Course
Free DLIFLC website with beginner Vietnamese lessons on sounds, script, key phrases, and military scenarios, plus audio, quizzes, and certificates.
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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Tiếng Việt 123 Level A
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with 16 daily life lessons, bilingual English Vietnamese explanations, review units, culture notes, and free audio.
Ling
Course
Freemium Vietnamese app with short lessons, native-speaker audio, dialogues, and speaking games for building everyday vocabulary and phrases.
Ultimate Lac Viet Dictionary
Dictionary
English Vietnamese dictionary app for iPhone and iPad with word lookup, examples, pronunciation, bookmarks, grammar content, and daily vocabulary.
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
A Southern Vietnamese learning podcast with short dialogue lessons, transcripts, vocab review, and practice activities on Annie's site.
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
Course
A YouTube channel for Southern Vietnamese with lesson playlists on pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and short everyday dialogues.
Glossika
Course
Vietnamese learning web app with native audio, sentence drills, and spaced repetition to build listening, pronunciation, and speaking through daily practice.
HowToVietnamese
A Southern Vietnamese podcast with short beginner lessons and slow true stories, plus transcripts and extra study materials on the site.
Udemy
Course
Udemy is a course marketplace where you can buy or preview self paced Vietnamese video classes from different instructors, then learn on your own schedule.
Learn101
Course
Free beginner Vietnamese website with step by step lessons on the alphabet, numbers, phrases, vocabulary, grammar, and basic audio support.
iLanguages
Flash Cards Phrasebook
Free Vietnamese website with core words, travel phrases, audio, alphabet notes, grammar basics, flashcards, and a short quiz for review.
HiNative
Mobile Q&A app where you ask native speakers Vietnamese questions by text, audio, or photo and get answers, corrections, and usage notes.
SynapseLingo
Free Vietnamese podcast with short story lessons and separate vocabulary review episodes to build listening skills and everyday words.
Teaching Vietnamese is My Hobby
A 6-episode podcast where teacher Gấm Nguyên shares short stories from teaching Vietnamese, plus practical tips on grammar and vocabulary study.
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Easy Vietnamese
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with short lessons, dialogues, drills, and free audio, designed for self-study or classroom use.
Book
Vietnam Now! A Vietnamese Language Reader
Readers
Parallel Vietnamese-English reader with graded newspaper texts, a short story, poems, notes, exercises, photos, and online audio.
Book
Vietnamese Essential Dictionary
Dictionary
Pocket Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese dictionary with 30,000 translations, short grammar notes, and a compact format for daily study.
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Vietnamese with Ease 2
Course
Pre-intermediate Vietnamese textbook with 15 themed lessons, QR-code audio, and practice across conversation, reading, writing, grammar, and pronunciation.
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.