Learn Vietnamese by talking

Verbsy is a speaking-first Vietnamese tutor you talk to out loud. It listens, answers, corrects what you got wrong, and remembers it for next time.

Vietnamese is tonal, so a small change in pitch is a different word entirely and silent study takes you almost nowhere. Verbsy makes you say it, and tells you when it landed wrong.

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A Vietnamese conversation in the Verbsy app

What you can practise in Vietnamese

Order phở and coffee, and understand what gets asked back.
Handle a market, a taxi or a hotel in Vietnamese.
Talk with Vietnamese family in full sentences rather than fragments.

How learning Vietnamese with Verbsy works

1
Tell the tutor what you want to be able to do in Vietnamese — order dinner, get through an interview, talk to family. It turns that into a goal with concrete steps.
2
Talk. Put your phone in your pocket and speak through your headphones while you walk or cook. The tutor answers out loud and corrects you as you go.
3
The words you stumbled on become flashcards drawn from your own conversations, and five skills are scored from how you actually spoke.

Vietnamese questions

Yes. The tutor answers the word you actually said, so a wrong tone shows up immediately, and the words you keep missing come back as flashcards.

Verbsy does not offer an accent choice for Vietnamese — the tutor speaks one standard variety. An accent or script choice exists today for English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Chinese.

Yes. Beginners get slower speech, simpler sentences and more support in a language you already know, and the tutor moves further into Vietnamese as you keep up. You do have to be willing to speak from the first session — that is the whole method.

Verbsy is free to download and your first 30 minutes of conversation are free. That is a one-off allowance rather than a daily one. Verbsy Premium unlocks an hour of conversation a day at the price shown in the app.

No. Verbsy is built to be used with the screen off, through your headphones, while you commute, cook or walk. It is an iPhone app and needs iOS 16.1 or later.

Other languages you can learn

Verbsy teaches 16 languages. Same tutor, same hands-free conversations.

EnglishSpanishFrenchGermanItalianPortugueseDutchRussianMandarin ChineseJapaneseKoreanArabicHindiPolishTurkish

Start speaking Vietnamese today

Download Verbsy and have your first Vietnamese conversation in the next five minutes. The first 30 minutes are free.

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