Free Catalan learning resources
24 free resources, checked and categorised.
No trials, no paywalls, no sign-up required.
Everything below is free to use — no trial periods and no paywalls. The list covers the main ways people study Catalan: 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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“SpeakCat is a Catalan course set in the university context, with exercises and activities to help students discover the basic grammar and vocabulary of the language. It also contains exercises and activities related to practical aspects of everyday university life. The course consists of 10 units. It provides a dictionary, a list of abbreviations, a grammar table and a personal assistant.”
A dicscord server for Catalan learners.
“300 expressions in Catalan, Spanish and English grouped by subject matter and audio files in MP3 format.”
“A resource based on the Eurom4 focus (a joint project of four European universities) that aims to help students learn to read in four new languages simultaneously (Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Italian or French). The whole learning process is based on the linguistic baggage that we automatically have as mother tongue speakers of one of these Romance languages and on the closely related nature of the languages themselves.”
Free comics in Catalan.
Learning resources and exercises.
A monolingual dictionary.
A monolingual dictionary, collocations and more.
A test which tells you what Catalan accent you speak.
On this site you can learn Catalan for free (the paid subscription isn't required).
A podcast in Catalan. The author answers the listeners' questions, e.g. what is the most spicy food in the world or how much time we spend waiting for the green light during our life.
The Little Prince in Catalan.
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 Catalan out loud, and remembering what you met once. That is what OwnSlides is for.
Say it out loud
Talk to an AI tutor that answers back, or join a live room with other learners and native speakers.
Practise what you read
Turn a grammar point or article into exercises, so it moves from recognised to usable.
Keep the words
Save new words to My Words and let spaced repetition bring them back before you forget them.
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.