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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.
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 Immersion Guide
Course
Free website with an immersion-based Vietnamese roadmap, a 30-day beginner routine, and setup guides for Anki, Yomitan, and study resources.
Website
YouGlish Vietnamese
Dictionary
Search Vietnamese words or phrases and hear them in short YouTube clips with captions, so you can study real pronunciation and usage in context.
Social Media
Learn Vietnamese With Nhạt
Free Instagram reels for beginner-friendly Northern Vietnamese practice, with quick clips on pronunciation, tones, and everyday phrases.
Easy Vietnamese
Course
Beginner Vietnamese textbook with short lessons, dialogues, drills, and free audio, designed for self-study or classroom use. ISBN-13 9780804851961.
Learn Northern & Southern Vietnamese Phrasebook
Flash Cards Phrasebook
Travel-focused Vietnamese phrasebook app with Northern and Southern audio, flashcards, and quizzes to build useful beginner vocabulary.
HelloTalk
Language exchange app for chatting with native speakers by text, voice, and calls, with built-in translation, corrections, captions, and live rooms.
YouTube
Everyday Viet
Free YouTube channel with beginner Vietnamese lessons on Southern pronunciation, basic vocabulary, and everyday phrases you can repeat aloud.
YouTube
Vietnamese Pronunciation
Course
Free YouTube playlist with short Vietnamese pronunciation drills on tones, vowels, consonants, and sound combinations for beginner practice.
Vietnamese Dictionary Dict Box
Dictionary
Mobile Vietnamese-English dictionary and translator with offline lookup, audio pronunciation, browser pop-up translation, and saved word lists.
Anki Deck
7700 Word Vietnamese Anki Deck
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with 7,771 English to Vietnamese cards compiled from Memrise courses, with course tags and audio on roughly 1,000 cards.
Anki Deck
Northern Vietnamese Vocabulary
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for studying Northern Vietnamese vocabulary and everyday expressions with spaced repetition for quick, repeatable review.
Vietnamese Picture Dictionary
Dictionary
Photo dictionary with 1,500 Vietnamese words by topic, example sentences, and free online audio for beginner-friendly vocabulary study. ISBN-13 9780804853736.
Essential Vietnamese Grammar
English-language reference grammar with 12 chapters, exercises, answer keys, and online audio for every example sentence. ISBN-13 9780804856058.
Vietnamese Visual Dictionary
Dictionary Phrasebook
Pocket visual dictionary with 3,000 Vietnamese words and phrases by topic, plus transliteration, indexes, photos, and free native-speaker audio. ISBN-13 9780008399665.
Tấm and Cám
Readers
A short bilingual Vietnamese-English picture book that retells the Tấm and Cám folktale in simple language for young children and beginner readers.
Mugengo
Flash Cards
iOS beta app that helps you learn Vietnamese through real articles and videos, with tap to look up phrases and spaced reviews from saved words.
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Vtudien
Dictionary
Free Vietnamese dictionary website for quick word lookups, pronunciation, and specialist terms across English and several other language pairs.
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.