Free Indonesian learning resources
15 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 Indonesian: 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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Scanned book of four essays on Indonesian linguistics, readable online or downloadable for study of roots, verbs, and related language analysis
Introductory Indonesian course in English with a try-it unit, glossary, and 14 numbered units plus extra links to other Indonesian sites
Free Indonesian tutorial with a lesson index covering phrases, pronunciation, grammar, numbers, days, and topic vocabulary written by a native speaker
99-page textbook for lessons 1-8 of an Indonesian audio-lingual course, with basic dialogues, cartoons, and a cumulative word list.
Field-test textbook with 8 Indonesian lessons on topics like location, time, duration, nouns, and relative pronouns, plus dialogues, drills, notes, homework, and vocabulary lists
Searchable English-Indonesian and Indonesian-English dictionary with alphabet browsing, keyword lookup, definitions, and community comments
Free Indonesian lesson pages with audio, covering alphabet, grammar, phrases, vocabulary lists, numbers, and translation, arranged for step-by-step study
"If you're trying to learn Indonesian which is also called Bahasa Indonesia, check our courses about adjectives, adverbs, articles, gender (feminine, masculine...), negation, nouns, numbers, phrases, plural, prepositions, pronouns, questions, verbs, vocabulary, excercises... to help you with your Indonesian grammar. Below are our free Indonesian lessons. Enjoy our courses!"
Free Indonesian learning pages with vocabulary, phrases, grammar, alphabet, flashcards, and a vocabulary quiz, including about 220 flashcards and 120 common words
Free Indonesian lesson pages covering phrases, alphabet, numbers, adjectives, prepositions, verbs, and vocabulary for everyday conversation practice
Indonesian-language news, radio, and podcast archive with current headlines, community stories, and audio programs you can stream and browse by topic
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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.