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Free General learning resources

5 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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Advanced Placement(opens in a new tab)

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.

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Intermediate–Advanced
Language sandwich(opens in a new tab)

A list of foreign YouTube vloggers - 13 different languages.

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Speakeasy(opens in a new tab)

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

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All levels
The Sign Polyglot(opens in a new tab)

Fulfill your curiosity about sign languages through this YT channel's videos!

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Beginner
Zoe.languages(opens in a new tab)

A YouTube channel where you can find information about languages, language learning and more.

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All levels

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.