Phúc Mập
Vietnam Vlogs Plus Vocab
Phúc Mập (Brandon Hurley) is an American creator in Vietnam who makes YouTube vlogs about everyday life, street food, travel, and chatting with locals in Vietnamese. It’s best for learners who want real-world listening practice and casual vocabulary, not a structured course.
The channel mixes entertainment with learning. Alongside food tours and culture clips, he posts short language segments like “Vietnamese Word of the Day” that focus on useful words, phrases, and pronunciation in context. If you like learning by hearing Vietnamese used in real situations, this is easy to drop into your routine.
Where it falls short is consistency as a “lesson” resource. Videos are vlog-first, and some content switches into English, so you won’t get a step-by-step curriculum or exercises. If you want deeper explanations and more conversation-focused language content, he also runs a Patreon with paid memberships for more in-depth Vietnamese lessons: Phúc Mập Vlog on Patreon.
- Category: Media
- Cost: Free
- Level: Beginner Friendly
- Format: YouTube
- Type: Vlog
- Skills: Listening, Vocabulary, Pronunciation
- Lots of real-life Vietnamese listening
- Short, memorable vocab segments
- Free and easy to sample
- Not a structured course
- English used in some videos
- Limited practice activities