Free Bulgarian learning resources
16 free resources, checked and categorised.
Every link is usable without paying. Some ask for a free account or keep extras behind a paid tier, and those are labelled.
Everything below is usable without paying; where a resource asks for a free account or keeps extras behind a paid tier, the row says so. The list covers the main ways people study Bulgarian: structured courses to build a foundation, dictionaries to look things up, and listening and reading material to spend real time in the language. Start with one course and one dictionary, then add listening once you can follow simple sentences.
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Bulgarian grammar guide with explanations and exercises on word order, gender, number, articles, case, and tenses
Grammar practice page with topic links for Bulgarian nouns, articles, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, tenses, and sentence patterns
YouTube video lesson for beginners in Bulgarian, presenting the first A1 class as a single lesson recording
Public-domain Bulgarian basic course with student texts and many linked tape recordings, organized into two volumes and units for listening and reading practice
Vocabulary from 17 chapters (you can also print it as a list).
Free MP3 Bulgarian beginner course with 100 audio lessons, native-speaker dialogues, and a topic list from greetings to past tense and travel situations
A blog for Albanian and Bulgarian learners - grammar, vocabulary, phrases, tips.
Online Bulgarian explanatory dictionary with meanings for over 44,000 words, plus search and spelling suggestions when you type a word
Kak se pishe = how to write :) Here you can check the correct spelling of words.
A dictionary by the Bulgarian Language Institute. 15 volumes, also in Bulgarian.
A Bulgarian dictionary that provides complete conjugation (and even more!) of a given word.
Bulgarian slang dictionary with user-submitted entries, sorted by letter, where learners can browse words and read example meanings and usage notes
Learn it there, practise it here
Free resources are great for input: reading, listening, explanations. They are weaker at the two things that actually move you forward: speaking Bulgarian out loud, and remembering what you met once. That is what OwnSlides is for.
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This directory began from a community-built list of free language resources, a year of collecting and checking by Joanna (u/chlebka) and dozens of contributors who suggested links, shared freely. See the original list. We have since expanded, re-checked and re-categorised it, and we keep the per-resource credits where the original list recorded them.