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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Learn Vietnamese Easy
Course Tutoring
Southern Vietnamese learning website with free blog lessons, audio, games, and podcasts, plus paid pronunciation videos and 1-on-1 online tutoring.
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.
Glossika
Course
Vietnamese learning app with native audio, sentence drills, and spaced repetition to build listening, pronunciation, and speaking through daily practice.
Lingora
Course Flash Cards
Beginner Vietnamese app with 500 sentence-based lessons, word-by-word notes, quizzes, and vocab review in both Northern and Southern audio.
Vitamese
Comprehensible Input
Website for learning Southern Vietnamese through unscripted listening podcasts, short pronunciation videos, culture articles, and beginner flashcards.
FSI Vietnamese Basic Course Volume
Course
Free FSI Vietnamese course book with PDFs and long Southern audio drills that take you from pronunciation practice through structured early lessons.
italki
Tutoring
Mobile app for booking 1-on-1 lessons with tutors, messaging teachers, and joining online language classes from your phone.
Go Vietnamese
Course Tutoring
Da Nang based Vietnamese school with in person and online lessons, plus a free podcast and transcripts for extra listening practice.
Pingo AI
Course
AI speaking app for Vietnamese with guided dialogues, roleplay lessons, and pronunciation feedback in both Northern and Southern speech.
Vietnamese with Thảo
Instagram account from Vietnamese with Thảo sharing short Vietnamese tips and culture posts, with a clear Southern pronunciation and grammar focus.
FSI Vietnamese Familiarization Course
Course
Free FSI Vietnamese PDF with 12 structured lessons, drills, and notes that build Southern Vietnamese speaking patterns through repetition.
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.
iSpeak Vietlingo
Course Tutoring
Hanoi-based Vietnamese school offering private and group classes, plus Vietnamese with Ease books and a companion podcast for beginner practice.
17 Minute Languages
Course
Structured Vietnamese website course with short daily lessons, native speaker audio, grammar help, a placement test, and a free trial before purchase.
SVFF
Course Tutoring
SVFF is a Southern Vietnamese school with structured levels, 1-on-1 lessons, free YouTube samples, and a paid podcast app with transcripts and quizzes.
Vietnamese Language Studies
Course Tutoring
Vietnamese language school in Ho Chi Minh City with private, group, and online courses plus a structured path from beginner to advanced.
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.
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.