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Free Hungarian learning resources

25 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 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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Cooljungator - Hungarian(opens in a new tab)

Verb conjungation tool.

Grammar
Easy Hungarian Bits(opens in a new tab)

Vocabulary and short phrases on Instagram.

Communities
Hungarian Lesson with Zsuzsi(opens in a new tab)

Native speaker's Youtube channel for Hungarian learners.

Video
Courses
Hungarian Project(opens in a new tab)

Good grammar videos.

Video
Beginner–Intermediate
Hungarian Reference(opens in a new tab)

Hungarian grammar clearly explained.

Grammar
Hungarian with Sziszi(opens in a new tab)

Native speaker's Youtube channel for Hungarian learners.

Video
Courses
Hungarize(opens in a new tab)

Mini lessons on Facebook and Instagram.

Communities
Learn Hungarian Playlist(opens in a new tab)

Youtube video lessons.

Video
Courses
Beginner
szotar.net(opens in a new tab)

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.

Dictionaries
All levels
Comics in Hungarian(opens in a new tab)

Free comics in Hungarian.

Reading
Intermediate–Advanced
Site in Hungarian
Hangoskönyv(opens in a new tab)

A huge collection on youtube - by huge I mean there are playlists here with 100s of books.

Video
Intermediate–Advanced
Site in Hungarian
Hogyan működik?(opens in a new tab)

Short science videos.

Video
Intermediate–Advanced
Hungarian Language(opens in a new tab)

A Wikipedia page about the Hungarian language - useful grammar info.

Grammar
Site in Polish
Magyar(opens in a new tab)

A Spotify playlist with Hungarian music.

Podcasts
MediaKlikk(opens in a new tab)

Public TV ( M1-M5, Duna, Duna World) and radio. Movies and series (usally only available for a limited time after the release).

Radio
Intermediate–Advanced
Site in Hungarian
Olga Lengyel(opens in a new tab)

A Pole's Youtube channel, in Hungarian (with occassional Polish subtitles).

Video
Olvasni Jo!(opens in a new tab)

Some Hungarian story tales, poems and the like.

Intermediate–Advanced
Site in Hungarian
Sziasztok!(opens in a new tab)

A Facebook group.

Communities
Site in Polish
Tanár Úr(opens in a new tab)

Gaming and just chatting.

Video
Intermediate–Advanced
Site in Hungarian
TheVR Streamek(opens in a new tab)

Pretty good quality gaming videos.

Video
Intermediate–Advanced
Site in Hungarian
Węgierska Randka(opens in a new tab)

Exhaustively explained Hungarian pronunciation.

Video
Site in Polish
Węgierskie podstawy podstaw(opens in a new tab)

A great Facebook page with lots of grammar and vocabulary resources.

Communities
Beginner
Site in Polish
Węgiersko-polski słownik(opens in a new tab)

A Polish-Hungarian dictionary.

Dictionaries
Site in Polish

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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.