Free Catalan learning resources
13 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 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.”
Online Catalan verb conjugator where you enter an infinitive and view full inflected forms, with notes for accented characters and links to related nouns and adjectives
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.
Catalan video lesson with transcript, context notes, grammar notes, and vocabulary help for chapter 0 of a 20-part course
Virtual Catalan course with didactic materials, available in self-study or tutored modes, plus demo, registration, and teacher resources.
Online archive of 192 Catalan-language comic books and strips, with filters by genre and date for browsing and reading scans
Government news and press page in Catalan with current announcements, themed sections, and links to public services and procedures in the Balearic Islands
Searchable Catalan dictionary portal with monolingual, bilingual, synonym, and conjugation dictionaries, plus related reference works and encyclopedia titles
Online Catalan dictionary from the Institut d'Estudis Catalans with basic and advanced search, letting learners look up entries, definitions, and usage examples.
Interactive Catalan dialect quiz with 20 multiple-choice questions that builds a map of your word choices and pronunciation
Catalan TV channel site with live streams, program schedules, news, sports, series, documentaries, and recipe clips to watch and browse across 3Cat channels
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 get matched with other learners and native speakers for a text chat.
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.