Free Slovak 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 Slovak: 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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Free Slovak course materials with audio, theory, vocabulary, phrases, exercises, and pronunciation examples, plus optional one-on-one online lessons with a teacher
“This Harvard professor in political economics has a language - learning section on his site, probably because he saw how few resources there were for this beautiful language! His blog includes some basic phrases with audio for a variety of topics.”
Free Slovak course portal with level-based lessons, exercises, tests, dictionaries, and multimedia texts, recordings, and videos.
Searchable Slovak language corpus with tools for finding text examples, collocations, and morphology, plus basic guides and videos for using the corpus
Live Slovak TV and radio streams with an archive, letting learners listen to broadcasts or watch programs and news content online
Dictionary portal linking multiple Slovak reference works, including current, historical, synonym, spelling, dialect, and foreign-word dictionaries plus some databases and audio recordings
Searchable bilingual translation dictionaries and a translator for Slovak with seven languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Hungarian, Italian, and Russian
Learn it there, practise it here
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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.