Free Romanian learning resources
8 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 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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YouTube video lessons on Romanian, with practical teaching clips aimed at helping learners understand and speak the language.
YouTube video lessons for Romanian learners, covering phonics, grammar, conversation, vocabulary, numbers, alphabet, and reading at beginner through advanced levels
Romanian poetry translated to 7 languages - over 1600 poems.
Collection of public-domain Romanian course materials, including grammar handbooks, reading and writing manuals, and 19 numbered lessons to work through
Archive of 192 Romanian-language comic books and strips, with online reading, free downloads, and filters by genre and publication date
A podcast.
Romanian news site with breaking stories, articles, videos, and sectioned coverage of politics, economics, foreign news, sport, culture, weather, and science
Romanian news homepage with latest articles, section links, and audio reports; browse headlines or open stories on politics, economy, society, sport, and international affairs
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 Romanian 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.