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Elementary Vietnamese Grammar
Free blog that republishes 30 Vietnamese grammar units with English explanations, examples, and written practice on easily confused forms.
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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Migaku
Flash Cards Dictionary
Browser extension that turns Vietnamese videos and web text into clickable lookups, then saves words and sentences as SRS flashcards.
vietnamesewithhue
Course
Free beginner YouTube lessons in Northern Vietnamese that teach core grammar, sentence patterns, and everyday topics through short videos.
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Kho Chữ
Dictionary
Free Vietnamese thesaurus website with synonyms, related words, examples, and word links that help you compare phrasing and choose more precise vocabulary.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Vocabulary Builder
Flash Cards
Free Anki flashcards for learning the Vietnamese alphabet with spaced repetition, useful for daily review of letters and diacritics.
Elementary Vietnamese
Course
Beginner textbook with 14 structured lessons, dialogues, grammar, drills, and free audio and flashcards for building core Vietnamese. ISBN-13 9780804855150.
Vietnamese with Ease 1
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with dialogue-based lessons, English explanations, picture vocabulary, and QR audio for pronunciation and listening practice. ISBN-13 9786043429763.
Vietnamese 4 Everybody
Course
Six short beginner podcast lessons on Southern Vietnamese sounds, tone marks, and numbers with simple listen and repeat practice.
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Vietnamese Learning Games
Flash Cards
Free website with beginner Vietnamese vocabulary games, flashcards, and phrase practice using Southern audio for quick listening and pronunciation drills.
Vietnamese for Beginners
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with strong tone and alphabet practice, manga-style dialogues, grammar notes, audio, and printable flashcards. ISBN-13 9780804857727.
Lilian Vietnamese
Comprehensible Input
Free YouTube channel with beginner friendly Vietnamese comprehensible input videos that use slow speech and visuals to build listening and vocabulary.
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.
Memrise
Course Flash Cards
Mobile app for learning Vietnamese through short scenario lessons, spaced review, native speaker video clips, and AI speaking practice.
Learn Authentic Vietnamese
Short Vietnamese podcast for intermediate learners, with everyday topics, full transcripts, and vocabulary lists to build natural listening skills.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 4 Medium Long
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with medium long Vietnamese sentences, English translations, and TTS audio for focused listening, shadowing, and sentence review.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Study System
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for systematic Vietnamese study with spaced repetition, focused on building vocabulary and common phrases through regular review.
Glosbe
Dictionary
Free English-Vietnamese dictionary website with example sentences, audio, images, and a built-in translator for quick word and phrase lookup.
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.
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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.