Anki Deck
Vietnamese Sentences Level 1 Short
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck with very short Vietnamese beginner sentences and audio in both Vietnamese and English for quick daily review and shadowing.
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.
Mobile App
PolyChat
Course
Mobile app with Vietnamese lessons, vocab games, conjugation drills, AI role-play chat, and a built-in translator for everyday practice.
Website
Pimsleur
Course
Audio-based Vietnamese course on Pimsleur's website and app with 30 guided lessons plus reading, flashcards, quizzes, and AI pronunciation practice.
Website
Idiomatic Expressions
Dictionary
Free A to Z list of Vietnamese idioms with short English translations. Good for quick lookup, reading practice, and picking up common expressions.
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.
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 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.
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.
Book
The Biscuit Moon
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book about conflict and cooperation, with simple repeated language and optional TalkingPEN audio.
Book
Tiếng Việt Mẫu Giáo: Thực Hành
Course
Beginner workbook for heritage kids learning Vietnamese letters, tones, spelling, short readings, and review quizzes in a school-style format.
Website
Vietnamese Language and Culture
Course Flash Cards
Free SEAsite website with 20 spoken Vietnamese lessons, Hanoi-based pronunciation audio, quizzes, and extra culture pages for early learners.
Mobile App
Learn Vietnamese Phrasebook
Phrasebook
Offline Vietnamese phrasebook app with native-speaker audio, search, and favorites. Free basics plus paid extra phrase packs for travel use.
Language School
Let's Speak Vietnamese
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese language school with online and Hanoi-based lessons, offering 1-on-1 or small group classes with native teachers and trial lessons.
Book
Essential Vietnamese
Dictionary Phrasebook
Compact Vietnamese phrasebook and mini dictionary for travel and daily basics, with quick lookup terms, sample sentences, and brief grammar help.
Website
The Voice Of Vietnam
Course
Free VOV World archive of Vietnamese audio lessons arranged from A2 to C2, useful if you want leveled listening practice with cultural topics.
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.