Free General learning resources
78 free resources, checked and categorised.
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Everything below is free to use — no trial periods and no paywalls. The list covers the main ways people study General: 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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A forum for language learners. Challenges, group learning, resources, tips and guidance.
It is a YouTube channel that has many resources for tons of AP topics. The reason I think this should be included is there are several series for multiple different languages. They have Latin, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, German, French, and Italian.
Information about & resources for a lot of minority languages spoken in Russia
A website full of resources, learning tools and dictionary of ALL the Indian languages.
"The Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning We create Open Educational Resources (OER) for language teaching and learning at the University of Texas at Austin and share them with the world."
A podcast: "Canguro English presents a podcast about language for people learning languages. This is just another part of my mission to change how the world learns English. Education should be FREE and FUN". One of the guests was Dan Everett himself!
"Language learning, getting fluent faster, and Clozemaster"
A full and rich catalogue of all the languages spoken in the world, no exceptions.
There are HUNDREDS of lessons with audio for each language listed. 41 languages are covered, including several Arabic varieties. You can choose your level of proficiency, the skill you want to improve (reading, listening), the topic and the competence.
A full and rich catalogue of all the languages spoken in the world, no exceptions.
Free audio courses in a bunch of languages, notably the Greek and Spanish courses are extremely praised by learners. It's run by ONE MAN named Mihalis who is a Cypriot from the UK living in South America. The whole course and all the materials are free. Super helpful, and on all platforms - YouTube, soundcloud, and everything is downloadable to your computer via mp3 file.
A list of foreign YouTube vloggers - 13 different languages.
A website that quickly describes all languages by family. Useful for linguists and polyglots.
Materials on the Archi, Khinalug, Nganasan, Enets and Tofalar languages
"This project is the internet's largest collection of free public domain language learning materials. It hosts thousands of free ebooks, audios and videos for over 130 languages from around the world. One of our missions is to make language learning accessible to everybody. Enjoy."
Free language courses - 95 languages to choose from.
A blog where any information about any language can be found. It includes many resources for every language.
Links to language sites with descriptions. 48 languages to choose from.
A website that teaches how to read and write different alphabet. It is also available as an app for mobiles.
A platform where you can watch YouTube videos and learn vocabulary. For now, you can choose among Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Italian, French, German and Greek
Free courses and lots of resources developed by The Foreign Service Institute (FSI), a United States federal government's primary training institution for the U.S. foreign affairs community employees. 48 languages and over 600 courses in public domain.
Language Links Database – The Home to all the Best Language Resources
Corpora of 15 languages, among them some Russian minority languages; plus many tools such as dictionaries and translations for other languages.
A virtual library with books related to foreign language learning. Includes some courses directly on the site.
Free online courses. 119 languages to choose from. Feel free to contribute!
A website for learning Thai, Chinese, Indonesian, Vietnamese and English in this four languages.
Hands down, the best flashcard program, based on the spaced repetition algorithm (whose effectiveness is scientifically proven). It has all the other programs options (Quizlet, Memrise, etc.) and more, + hundreds of plugins. It may be quite difficult initially, so, it's better to find a guide (here is the one I wrote. However, it's in Polish). I could write an entire serenade here, just go check it out.
Short audio recordings of native speakers talking about whatever they like (e.g. movie reviews, diary entries). 14 languages – 8557 mp3 files. You can filter them by proficiency level, speaker's gender and theme duration.
Videos with subtitles. The languages are many and to change from one to another you just need to add the forward slash and the language you want to learn (e.g. /arabic).
A polyglot's blog about language learning techniques.
Dictionary available in many languages.
A website that teaches in a fun way only vocabulary. It is also available as an app for mobiles.
A website through which you can look for vocabulary in different languages. The vocabulary is provided with visual representations, hence the name.
Doesn't need an introduction. I don't really like it but I couldn't find a good enough reason to leave it out
A Website rich of classic books provided in two languages simultaneously (the one you speak and the one you want to learn) with sentence alignment and audio. This platform is also available for mobiles (Android, iOS).
A pronunciation dictionary, where you can check the pronunciation of any word in any language, recorded by native speakers.
Also known as 50languages or book2. A platform full of learning materials, from music to radio stations, from vocabulary lists to alphabet and more. There is also a phone app.
A blog about languages and language learning.
A language exchange platform. You can ask natives questions about their language and culture. You can receive corrections about your pronunciation, ask about the difference between two words and more. There's also a mobile app.
A Facebook group for Slavic languages enthusiasts.
A site with hundreds of articles regarding learning techniques and languages.
PDF with 2000 essential words available in many languages. To access it you just need to click on the link and to change the name of the language to the one of your interest.
"All our lessons are made to be easy to learn and go straight to the point. Most of our languages contain lessons about the alphabet, grammar, vocabulary, exams, audio, and translation".
"Immerse yourself in our vast library of language courses (Books, podcasts, news, business, entertainment, sports, technology, science, travel, politics, food, culture) online and on mobile.". 49 languages are available.
A website rich of courses in different languages.
More than 1 million translations and transcriptions of song lyrics.
A blog about language learning - recommendations, advice.
You can spin the Earth around and choose news sites from all over the world here!
You can spin the Earth around and choose Radio stations from all over the world here!
Online dictionary that provides translation, definition and synonims in different languages.
Free-content, editable corpus of example sentences with translations.
Fulfill your curiosity about sign languages through this YT channel's videos!
A Google sheet with words sorted by themes translated to many languages sorted by language families. Feel free to contribute!
Optimised alternative to Anki. It has an SRS system that shows you the flashcards based on how much you remember the information contained in it.
"Test your receptive and productive vocabulary in the languages available. What percentage of the 5000 most frequent words have you mastered?" The test is available for 16 languages
Mini-courses for some Russian minority languages (Komi, Russian Sign Language, Tatar, Chuvash, Yukaghir)
A YouTube channel where you can find information about languages, language learning and more.
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.