VTV24

What it actually is

The official channel of the news department of Đài Truyền Hình Việt Nam, posting bulletins, explainers and fact-checks throughout the day to nearly seven million subscribers. Broadcast news is the most reliable free supply of unmodified spoken Vietnamese there is: the register is formal, the diction is clear, and the same events are covered in English elsewhere so you can check whether you understood. It is genuinely hard — no glossing, no slowing down — and it belongs after the graded input channels, not instead of them. Use the YouTube channel rather than the VTV Go app, which is geo-restricted outside Vietnam.

What it covers

• Listening
• Vocabulary

Listed for

• Vietnamese

Official links

• VTV website ↗

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