Free Slovak learning resources
13 free resources, checked and categorised.
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 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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“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.”
"An e-learning portal with courses of Slovak as a foreign language aimed at acquiring basic language skills which can be applied to day-to-day situations. The courses correspond with the textbook Krížom-krážom. Slovenčina – the series of textbooks of Slovak which were published by Studia Academica Slovaca – The Centre for Slovak as a Foreign Language."
A corpus of the Slovak language (requires an account).
A growing Youtube channel, chiefly about the Slovak language. About Slovak in Polish :)
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 Slovak out loud, and remembering what you met once. That is what OwnSlides is for.
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Keep the words
Save new words to My Words and let spaced repetition bring them back before you forget them.
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.