Free Kannada learning resources
9 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 Kannada: 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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“All the lessons contain audio and are all offered for free. We will learn the alphabet together. We will also review some simple grammar rules, practice common phrases, and we will have fun memorizing many important vocabulary lists.”
Kannada radio and podcast archive with schedules and tagged programs, where listeners can stream episodes or browse archived talks and special broadcasts
Kannada blog and course pages with alphabet-learning materials, plus short essays, poems, stories, and photo galleries to read and browse
Beginner spoken Kannada lessons, a short grammar, an older grammar scan, song-based language and culture material, and an English-Kannada dictionary link
Gallery of Kannada Unicode font samples showing many typefaces and their support details, for comparing how Kannada characters render in different fonts
Garfield, Calvin & Hobbes and Dilbert translated into Kannada
Kannada news site with headlines, live updates, district coverage, and sections for politics, sports, cinema, business, technology, health, and more
More links (some of them may not work).
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 Kannada 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.