Free Scottish Gaelic learning resources
8 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 Scottish Gaelic: 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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YouTube video from a 20-part BBC Scotland Scottish Gaelic course, with a PDF companion mentioned in the description.
Activities for Gaelic learners and families, with stories, audio, flashcards, videos, and word games organized by age and Gaelic-medium school stage
Classroom video clips and PowerPoint files for Gaelic topics, with teachers’ notes for practice, discussion, and revision across 20 themed lessons
15-lesson Gaelic course with topic pages and vocabulary practice on greetings, numbers, time, weather, travel, and everyday conversations
This is a website from the Manx government to support learning Manx
Free Scottish Gaelic learning hub with online courses, a searchable dictionary, 2,000+ audio/video clips, grammar guides, and class finder links
Basic Scottish Gaelic tutorial in hypertext lessons with audio files, covering simple sentences, verbs, nouns, and cases.
Archived menu of 56 short Gaelic reading tips from the Gaidhlig-B mailing list, covering vocabulary and grammar points like asking, quantity, and vocative case.
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 Scottish Gaelic 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.