Free General learning resources
6 free resources, checked and categorised.
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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A virtual library with books related to foreign language learning. Includes some courses directly on the site.
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).
More than 1 million translations and transcriptions of song lyrics.
You can spin the Earth around and choose news sites from all over the world here!
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.