Free Czech learning resources
25 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.
Czech asks for patience early. Seven cases, three genders and consonant clusters that English speakers find genuinely difficult to say all arrive in the first weeks, and there is no way to sequence around them. The good news is that Czech is highly regular once the system is visible; the difficulty is steep rather than long.
Use a structured course and stay with it. Czech grammar is too interconnected for a self-assembled path: cases, gender and verb aspect depend on each other, and learning them out of order produces confusion that takes longer to unpick than it would have taken to learn properly.
Add listening early even though it will be hard, because Czech spelling is phonetic and rewards ear training quickly. Free Czech material is solid for a language of its size: courses, dictionaries and public radio all exist and are genuinely free.
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Handouts, e-books, Quizlet sets, audio pronunciation drills, and online crosswords for practising Czech reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary at A1 to B1 level
A downloadable Czech lexicon (can be imported to Anki as a csv file <3).
YouTube video lessons in Czech with English explanations, covering grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation in step-by-step lessons.
Openly licensed Czech textbook and curriculum with 10 themed units, grammar explanations, vocabulary lists, videos, audio recordings, and self-correcting exercises
Blog with posts about Czech classes in Brno and online, including updates for children, adults, and holiday greetings
Searchable Czech synonym dictionary with alphabet browsing and word lookup by beginning or containing form
Annotated Czech reading list with adapted books and graded texts for children, teens, and adults, often including glossaries, exercises, and audio recordings
A Youtube channel about all sorts of things - Czech language, idioms and sayings, Czech cities and what's worth seeing, conversations with students and more. Most of the videos are entirely in Czech, sometimes also Russian.
Czech-Polish dictionary of vulgar slang with searchable entries, popularity sorting, and audio pronunciation for translating common insults and swear words
Two-way dictionary with collocations.
Exercises for Czech children, but adult learners may also find them useful.
Archive of 144 Polish-Czech radio episodes from Radio Opole, covering regional history, tourism, local government, and educational contests
Free online Czech reference portal with dictionaries, synonyms, spelling rules, grammar notes, and language tools, including audio and picture-based entries
The biggest Czech dictionary, by Ústav pro jazyk český. In Czech.
Multilingual online dictionary for translating Czech to and from English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian, Polish, and Croatian
Online Czech synonym and antonym dictionary with pronunciation audio, covering 67,000 entries and lookup for meanings, synonyms, and opposites
Collection of free Czech online exercises and vocabulary lists, with basic grammar notes, a downloadable phrasebook, and Facebook group links
Czech test sets for secondary-school entrance exam preparation, with sections for spelling, word formation, morphology, sentence structure, writing, and reading comprehension
Live Czech radio streams and a searchable audio archive with hundreds of thousands of programs, podcasts, and recordings you can listen to or download
Searchable Czech dictionary of foreign words with alphabetical browsing, pronunciation-aware search, and lists of popular terms and entries
Wikipedia grammar article outlining Czech verb forms, conjugation categories, classes, and irregular verbs with examples and explanations
Wikipedia article explaining Czech noun, adjective, pronoun, and numeral declension, with cases, number, and sample endings tables
Czech radio station page with live streams, an audio archive, and culture programs including dramas, readings, documentaries, concerts, and interviews to listen to online.
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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.