YouTube
Actually Understand Vietnamese
Comprehensible Input
Vietnamese learning channel with graded comprehensible input videos, mostly Southern accent, plus free lessons on YouTube and more on its site.
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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Language School
Learn Vietnamese With Annie
Course Tutoring
Southern Vietnamese school with self paced dialogue lessons, app access, and one to one classes for learners who want guided practice.
YouTube
Viet Language
Vietnamese-language YouTube channel with Southern accent teaching from native speaker in Saigon, covering lessons for beginners and intermediate learners.
Book
FSI Vietnamese Basic Course Volume 1
Course
Free FSI Vietnamese course book with PDFs and long Southern audio drills that take you from pronunciation practice through structured early lessons.
YouTube
Learn Vietnamese With Jane
Course
Free YouTube lessons for beginners learning Southern Vietnamese, with a clear path through alphabet, tones, pronunciation, grammar, and listening.
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 Sentences Level 5 Long
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with long Vietnamese sentences, English translations, and audio on both sides for sentence review, shadowing, and dictation practice.
YouTube
Learn Vietnamese Easy
Southern Vietnamese YouTube lessons with clear beginner topics, plus linked blog practice, quizzes, a paid pronunciation course, and tutoring.
Book
FSI Vietnamese Familiarization Course
Course
Free FSI Vietnamese PDF with 12 structured lessons, drills, and notes that build Southern Vietnamese speaking patterns through repetition.
Social Media
Viet with Quinn
Instagram account for short Vietnamese study sessions and casual exposure. Best used as a light supplement, not a full course.
Social Media
Learn Vietnamese With Nhạt
Free Instagram reels for beginner-friendly Northern Vietnamese practice, with quick clips on pronunciation, tones, and everyday phrases.
Mobile App
Preply
Tutoring
Mobile app for finding Vietnamese tutors, taking live 1-on-1 lessons, messaging teachers, and tracking lesson progress in one place.
Language School
LTL Language School
Course Tutoring
In-person Vietnamese school in Hanoi with 1-on-1, 2-on-1, and small group classes, plus homestay, housing, and social activities for immersion.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Grammar
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for learning Vietnamese grammar through tagged example sentences with audio, spaced review, and a step by step study order.
Social Media
VietKIMese
Instagram account with short Vietnamese learning posts from Kim, centered on Southern accent pronunciation and quick everyday language tips.
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.