Free Bulgarian learning resources
22 free resources, checked and categorised.
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Everything below is free to use — no trial periods and no paywalls. 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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24 episodes for Bulgarian learners.
A well-known podcast - basic vocabulary, culture, listening exercises.
Vocabulary from 17 chapters (you can also print it as a list).
A blog for Albanian and Bulgarian learners - grammar, vocabulary, phrases, tips.
A dictionary (shows all meanings of a given word).
A Facebook group for intermediate and advanced learners.
A Facebook group for beginners.
Here you can learn Bulgarian while watching a sitcom.
Kak se pishe = how to write :) Here you can check the correct spelling of words.
A Bulgarian actor, Kitodar Todorov's channel. Bulgarian tales read aloud, interviews, conversations.
The rules of spelling and interpunction in Bulgarian.
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.
Slang dictionary.
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.