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Free Romanian learning resources

11 free resources, checked and categorised.

100% free

No trials, no paywalls, no sign-up required.

Everything below is free to use — no trial periods and no paywalls. The list covers the main ways people study Romanian: 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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Learn Romanian With Nico(opens in a new tab)

A youtube channel - lessons and tips.

Video
Beginner–Intermediate
Romanian(opens in a new tab)

A complete grammar textbook.

Grammar
All levels
Romanian Voice(opens in a new tab)

Romanian poetry translated to 7 languages - over 1600 poems.

Advanced
The Yojik Website(opens in a new tab)

29 lessons and 5 additional PDF textbooks.

Courses
Beginner–Intermediate
Comics in Romanian(opens in a new tab)

Free comics in Romanian.

Reading
Intermediate–Advanced
Site in Romanian
Mediafax(opens in a new tab)

News.

News
Intermediate–Advanced
Site in Romanian
RFI România(opens in a new tab)

News and radio.

News
Intermediate–Advanced
Site in Romanian
Rumuński kurs dla początkujących(opens in a new tab)

A Facebook group for beginners.

Communities
Beginner
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.