YouTube
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.
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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Website
Vietlingo
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese learning website with structured courses, live 1-on-1 lessons, and an AI tutor for Northern, Central, or Southern dialect study.
Social Media
Vietramese
Course
Instagram page for a Southern Vietnamese teacher who also runs paid Zoom group classes with recordings, homework, and shared materials for adult learners.
Book
Sunita Makes Friends
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book for ages 3 to 6, with a simple story about friendship and optional PENpal audio for read-aloud support.
Social Media
Happy Dudu House
Instagram account with short reels and captions about Vietnamese culture, travel, and everyday language for heritage learners and curious beginners.
YouTube
Everyday Viet
Free YouTube channel with beginner Vietnamese lessons on Southern pronunciation, basic vocabulary, and everyday phrases you can repeat aloud.
Podcast
Levion
Vietnamese learning podcast with real dialogues and slow stories featuring native speakers, transcripts, and vocabulary building for beginners.
Mobile App
Vietnamese English Dictionary+
Dictionary
Offline Vietnamese-English dictionary app with word lookup, example sentences, audio pronunciation, favorites, and flashcards for quick review.
Book
Tôma Thiện
Course
Tiếng Nước Tôi is a graded Vietnamese textbook series from Tôma Thiện with lesson PDFs for children, from pre-K through grade 9.
Website
Vtudien
Dictionary
Free Vietnamese dictionary website for quick word lookups, pronunciation, and specialist terms across English and several other language pairs.
Anki Deck
Basic Vietnamese
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with 1,000+ basic Vietnamese sentences and both Northern and Southern audio for daily review, listening practice, and shadowing.
Podcast
VTM 2
Paid Southern Vietnamese listening podcast with short unscripted episodes, plus transcripts and related videos and articles on the Vitamese site.
Podcast
SVFF
Southern Vietnamese learning podcast with free sample lessons and a paid app that adds transcripts, quizzes, and level-based audio lessons.
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.
Website
Video Vocab
Flash Cards Comprehensible Input
Free study website that teaches Vietnamese through selected YouTube clips, helping you learn key words with spaced repetition before you watch.
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.