Everything you need to actually speak Vietnamese — in one app.
An illustrated journey from your first xin chào all the way to C2 — with AI Hanoi street characters who listen to your voice and, just like the real ones, don't understand you when your tones are off.
Free tier, no card. Runs in your browser and installs to your home screen like a real app.
👂 she heard: "chợ e mọt bạc phô bó ai" — your tones, transcribed honestly
Why a 300-day streak still can't order coffee
Apps "understand" anything
Every language app accepts whatever you mumble. Vietnamese has six tones — say "phở" wrong and you've said a different word. Nobody tells you.
The street doesn't
Real aunties say "Gì cơ?", quote prices in shorthand, and ask if you're married yet. No app prepared you for a single second of it.
The street, safely
Practice the exact conversation — with a character who reacts to what your mouth actually produced — before you do it for real, with an audience.
One road, from your first word to C2
Story Mode is the spine of the app: a hand-painted ride through real places, broken into six legs. You never pick "what should I study today" — the map hands you the next stop, and it knows what you've already proved you can do.
- A1Hà GiangReborn — your first words, up in the far north
- A2Hà NộiSettling in: SIM card, landlord, market, Grab
- B1Ninh Bình → Hạ LongFar enough out that nobody switches to English
- B2Sa Pa → Lào CaiFluency under pressure — haggling and complaints
- C1Mộc Châu → Mai ChâuNuance: proverbs, Tết custom, formal register
- C2Hà Nội — Phố CổHome again — now you're the one explaining tones
Three dialects. Each one rides its own region.
Where you live is why you picked your dialect, so the map keeps you there — a Saigon learner shouldn't have to spend C1 in Hanoi. The other two accents are still taught, as listening, from home.
Northern — Hà Nội
The ride that's written. A1 is complete and A2 is nearly there, with the lessons, cheat sheets, roleplay scenes and texting sims in place; the upper legs are mapped and filling in ahead of you.
Central — Huế
Merged tones and its own vocabulary — the hardest accent to follow. All six legs are mapped A1→C2 and you can ride it today, but past the A1 orientation the Central lessons and scenes aren't written yet.
Southern — Sài Gòn
Flatter tones, faster, more casual, its own everyday words. Same story: the full route is there and open, the Southern content past A1 orientation is still being written.
Every stop that isn't written yet says so, in the app, before you tap it — "coming soon", not a dead end dressed up as a lesson. That honesty is the whole reason you can trust the parts that do say they're ready.
What you get
Six or seven tools most learners pay for separately — plus the one nobody else sells: consequences.
Street roleplay, tone-scored
AI locals who talk back — and genuinely don't understand bad tones. Your speech is scored on tone and pronunciation, not just "did you say roughly the right word".
Spaced-repetition deck
Every word you meet becomes a card, ranked by how common it really is in spoken Vietnamese, and drilled on the schedule that makes it stick.
Lessons & guidebook
Five-minute lessons plus the grammar, pronouns and culture Duolingo skips — the pronoun matrix, spoken numbers, the tone minimal pairs, all free.
Five-skill progress
Listening, reading, speaking, writing and culture each carry their own CEFR level, so you can see the one that's quietly lagging.
Radio mode
Hands-free listen-and-repeat for the commute. You speak out loud in the gaps; no screen, no tapping, no traffic accident.
Ask a tutor
"What did that phrase mean?" — an AI tutor that answers any time, in context, and drops the answer straight into your deck.
Installs like an app
Add it to your home screen and it opens full-screen, works offline for the reading and review, and stops feeling like a website.
Your own conversations
Record a real exchange; the words the native speaker actually used get mined straight into your curriculum.
Five skills, and a diploma that means something
Listening, reading, speaking, writing and culture each rise on their own from what you actually do in the app — no self-assessment sliders. Culture is a first-class skill here, because knowing em/anh/chị is not a footnote to speaking Vietnamese. Graduation medals aren't handed out for showing up: you claim one by passing a short exam across all five.
Pricing
Start free and stay free if you want to — the pedagogy basics that fix the Duolingo gaps are never behind the paywall.
Free
- The whole guidebook & cheat sheets
- Story Mode map + placement quiz
- Recall deck & daily reviews
- A roleplay scene every day
- Listening mode + tap-to-define
Founding Member
- Unlimited scenes, every scenario
- AI debriefs → vocab straight to your deck
- Speech scoring & phone-voice calls
- Audio Lab — your own recordings, mined
- Vote on every new scenario · name in the credits
Create your free account first — the upgrade lives behind the crown inside the app, so your spot lands on your login.
No lifetime deals. The AI that listens to you costs money every single session, and we'd rather stay alive than sell you a promise. After the 100 founding spots are gone, the regular yearly price applies. Cancel any time; refunds inside 30 days, no questions.
FAQ
Northern, Central or Southern?
How is this different from Duolingo?
Is my pronunciation really judged?
Do I have to install anything?
Is the free tier a trial?
Who's building this?
Refunds?
Next time she says "Gì cơ?" — make it part of the game.
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