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Free General learning resources

18 free resources, checked and categorised.

100% free

No trials, no paywalls, no sign-up required.

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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Arctic Megapedia(opens in a new tab)

Information about & resources for a lot of minority languages spoken in Russia

Blogs
Beginner
Clozemaster Blog(opens in a new tab)

"Language learning, getting fluent faster, and Clozemaster"

Blogs
Ethnologue(opens in a new tab)

A full and rich catalogue of all the languages spoken in the world, no exceptions.

Blogs
Glottolog(opens in a new tab)

A full and rich catalogue of all the languages spoken in the world, no exceptions.

Blogs
Languages Around the Globe(opens in a new tab)

Articles about language learning and curiosities

Blogs
Live Lingua(opens in a new tab)

"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."

Blogs
Beginner
Omniglot(opens in a new tab)

A blog where any information about any language can be found. It includes many resources for every language.

Blogs
OpenCulture(opens in a new tab)

Links to language sites with descriptions. 48 languages to choose from.

Blogs
Universe of Memory(opens in a new tab)

Language Links Database – The Home to all the Best Language Resources

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Word2Word(opens in a new tab)

Free online courses. 119 languages to choose from. Feel free to contribute!

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Anki(opens in a new tab)

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.

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Blog o nauce języków obcych(opens in a new tab)

A polyglot's blog about language learning techniques.

Blogs
Site in Polish
Hał ar ju, Marija?(opens in a new tab)

A blog about languages and language learning.

Blogs
Site in Polish
Językowa Siłka(opens in a new tab)

A site with hundreds of articles regarding learning techniques and languages.

Blogs
Site in Polish
Keitah(opens in a new tab)

A blog about language learning.

Blogs
Site in Polish
Mówić.pl(opens in a new tab)

A blog about language learning - recommendations, advice.

Blogs
Site in Polish
Szybka Wiedza(opens in a new tab)

A blog about learning (not only languages).

Blogs
Site in Polish
Tatoeba(opens in a new tab)

Free-content, editable corpus of example sentences with translations.

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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.