Free Hindi 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 Hindi: 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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Free Hindi beginner course with a PDF introduction and basic lessons, plus links to external phrase books, videos, reading guides, podcasts, and textbooks
Hindi course menu with 24 lessons covering Devanagari, grammar topics, verbs, tenses, cases, and vocabulary through themed lessons and reviews
More links (Devanagari fonts, news sites, language learning sites, vocabulary lists, Hindi jokes and more).
ACTFL-based Hindi reading comprehension materials with novice, intermediate, and advanced levels plus a proficiency-guidelines guide for practice.
Archive of about 192 Hindi-language comic books and strips for online reading, with categories and date filters for browsing by genre or year
Learning resources.
A searchable GlobalComix listing of Hindi comic and manga series, where learners browse titles and read full comic pages online.
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 Hindi out loud, and remembering what you met once. That is what OwnSlides is for.
Say it out loud
Talk to an AI tutor that answers back, or get matched with other learners and native speakers for a text chat.
Practise what you read
Turn a grammar point or article into exercises, so it moves from recognised to usable.
Keep the words
Save new words to My Words and let spaced repetition bring them back before you forget them.
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.