Book
Basic Vietnamese
Course
Free beginner Vietnamese textbook from MSU with pronunciation units, 15 themed chapters, audio, exercises, and culture notes for self-study.
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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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.
Book
10 Nursery Rhymes from Vietnam
Readers
Bilingual Vietnamese-English board book with 10 traditional rhymes for babies and young kids, good for family readalouds and early word exposure.
YouTube
Viet Language
Vietnamese-language YouTube channel with Southern accent teaching from native speaker in Saigon, covering lessons for beginners and intermediate learners.
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
Learn Vietnamese Easy
Southern Vietnamese YouTube lessons with clear beginner topics, plus linked blog practice, quizzes, a paid pronunciation course, and tutoring.
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.
Book
Children's Songs in Vietnamese & English Volume 1
Interactive bilingual sound board book with six Vietnamese and English children's songs plus pronunciation support for young kids and families.
Book
Tiếng Việt Thực Hành Lớp 2
Course
Beginner Vietnamese workbook for children, with alphabet, tone, tracing, reading, and picture-based practice for early literacy.
Podcast
Vietnamese Learning Accelerator
Phrasebook
Free podcast with short English to Vietnamese phrase drills, repeated Vietnamese audio, and episode transcripts to follow while you listen.
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.
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.
Podcast
Learn Vietnamese Fluently, Easily and Effectively
Course
Free Spotify album with beginner Vietnamese audio lessons you can play in order for self-study, with a simple listen-and-repeat approach.
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
Learn Vietnamese With Jane
Course
Free YouTube lessons for beginners learning Southern Vietnamese, with a clear path through alphabet, tones, pronunciation, grammar, and listening.
Social Media
Vietnamese with Mia
Instagram account with short Vietnamese lessons for beginners, focused on pronunciation, everyday phrases, and practical travel speech.
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.