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Free Southern Vietnamese podcast with short native-speaker episodes, transcripts, and related videos and articles for 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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Vietnamese Phrases
Phrasebook
Free website with Vietnamese greetings, travel lines, and everyday expressions in English and Vietnamese for quick reference and basic practice.
Instant Vietnamese
Dictionary Phrasebook
Compact phrasebook for beginners that teaches 100 core Vietnamese words and patterns to build useful travel phrases, with MP3 audio and both major dialects. ISBN-13 9780804844635.
VMonkey
Course Readers
Vietnamese literacy app for kids with interactive stories, audiobooks, and phonics lessons tied to Vietnam's primary school curriculum.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 3 Medium
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck of medium-length Vietnamese sentences with English translations and audio on both sides for listening drills, shadowing, and review.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Core Vocabulary
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for reviewing common Vietnamese words and short phrases with spaced repetition in the Anki app on desktop or mobile.
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.
HUẾ TV
Free YouTube channel from Huế's local broadcaster with daily news, culture, and feature programs for listening practice in Central Vietnamese.
Southern Vietnamese for Beginners
Course
Beginner textbook for spoken Southern Vietnamese with 20 story-based chapters, glossaries, grammar notes, and companion audio and video. ISBN-13 9798664093407.
17 Minute Languages
Course
Structured Vietnamese website course with short daily lessons, native speaker audio, grammar help, a placement test, and a free trial before purchase.
Vietnamese Shadowing
Free Vietnamese podcast with short shadowing-style monologues, full transcripts, and YouTube audio to practice listening, reading, and pronunciation.
VietnamesePod101
Course Flash Cards
Mobile app for VietnamesePod101 lessons with audio and video courses, transcripts, quizzes, flashcards, and optional teacher feedback.
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iSpeak Vietlingo
Course
Beginner podcast with lesson audio for iSpeak Vietlingo's Vietnamese with Ease books, covering everyday phrases, pronunciation, and basic grammar.
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.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 2 Short Medium
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck of Vietnamese sentence cards with short to medium lines and audio on both sides, made for daily listening, reading, and shadowing practice.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Practice Deck
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for reviewing everyday Vietnamese words and short phrases through spaced repetition and steady vocabulary practice.
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.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Language Cards
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for studying Vietnamese vocabulary with spaced repetition. A practical pick if you like building words through self-paced review.
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.