Free Esperanto learning resources
15 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 Esperanto: 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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Links directory for Esperanto courses, grammar references, dictionaries, magazines, and community sites, with a few full courses and vocabulary resources listed
Multilingual Esperanto course with interactive lessons, exercises, sounds, and illustrations, plus grammar, dictionary, forum, and teaching materials
“Courses about adjectives, adverbs, articles, gender (feminine, masculine…), negation, nouns, numbers, phrases, plural, prepositions, pronouns, questions, verbs, vocabulary, excercises… to help you with your grammar.”
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Esperanto teaching portal with course materials, grammar and vocabulary resources, reading and video sections, plus forums and community tools for instructors and learners
Blog post listing 10 Esperanto learning resources, including apps, downloadable grammar software, tutoring, podcasts, pronunciation tools, and a dictionary site
Esperanto grammar reference with an introduction, grammar sections in several languages, exercises, and a universal word list for study and lookup
Ten-lesson email correspondence course for Esperanto, with downloadable PDF lessons, a few MP3 pronunciation files, and mentor-checked exercises
The conversational method course - 25 lessons, each includes grammar, vocabulary, a text/conversation phrases and translation exercises.
Esperanto news bulletin with articles and commentary on movement, culture, and internet topics, plus an archive of recent posts to read.
Esperanto radio archive with dated broadcasts to read or listen to, plus searchable news, culture, science, and interview sections
Free Esperanto eBooks from Project Gutenberg, mostly public-domain classics and translations you can browse and read online or download
Esperanto course pages with a basic course, 17 lessons, exercises, answer keys, and a shorter beginner course split into lesson and question sets
Directory of Esperanto Telegram groups and channels, including chats for culture, language, games, activism, and local communities, with links to join and browse topics.
Esperanto radio podcast archive with downloadable episodes split into parts, plus full-show MP3s and episode notes for recent broadcasts
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 Esperanto 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.