Free Hungarian learning resources
14 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 Hungarian: 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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Online Hungarian verb conjugator with sentence examples, letting learners look up common verbs and see present, past, future, conditional, and subjunctive forms
Native speaker's Youtube channel for Hungarian learners.
Grammar reference for Hungarian with English explanations, covering topics like pronunciation, noun cases, verbs, adjectives, syntax, and other articles.
Hungarian learning course with 150+ podcast episodes with transcripts and vocab lists, 70+ subtitled video lessons, and 50+ easy reads with audio
Hungarian audio and video lessons, vocabulary tools, flashcards, and a learner community, with thousands of lessons and optional teacher feedback
YouTube video lesson introducing the Hungarian alphabet as part of a course playlist.
A dictionary (HU <> EN, ES, FR, IT, DE, NL, RU, ZH, SL). Requires a free account (although there's also a paid version with more functionalities). Also available as an app.
Archive of 192 Hungarian comic books and strips for online reading, with genre and date filters for browsing by topic or year
A Wikipedia page about the Hungarian language - useful grammar info.
Public TV ( M1-M5, Duna, Duna World) and radio. Movies and series (usally only available for a limited time after the release).
Hungarian reading blog with a large collection of folk tales, poems, and author selections to browse and read online
Searchable Hungarian-Polish dictionary with 17,800 headwords, 2,400 example sentences, and 29,000 translations for lookup and translation help
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 Hungarian out loud, and remembering what you met once. That is what OwnSlides is for.
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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.