Free Spanish learning resources
9 free resources, checked and categorised.
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Spanish gives beginners the fastest start of any major language for English speakers: the spelling is regular, so you can read aloud accurately almost immediately, and the shared Latin vocabulary means you begin with thousands of half-known words. Use that. Get through a course quickly rather than perfecting the first chapters.
The real work is later, and it is listening. Spoken Spanish is fast and syllable-timed, and native speed feels like a wall at exactly the point the grammar starts feeling easy. Start listening earlier than feels comfortable, and use material with transcripts so you can see what you missed.
Decide early whether you are aiming at Latin American or peninsular Spanish and weight your listening accordingly — the differences are small in writing and considerably larger in speech. The subjunctive arrives around B1 and takes months to feel natural. That is normal, not a sign you have missed something.
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Self-paced Spanish course with AI language coach. Makes it easy to see your proficiency level grow with a visual pacing tracker called a "brainmap."
A blog with Spanish learning material like parallel texts from classic books, song lyrics, lessons, etc.
"Rather than boring grammar lessons, we provide free interesting listening experiences. By listening to our stories, culture explanations and games, you will get used to real Spanish as it's used in context, and develop a native-like intuition for the grammar and the vocabulary, together with a clear pronunciation. The videos try to be easy enough for a complete beginner to start picking up the language."
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Free resources are great for input — reading, listening, explanations. They are weaker at the two things that actually move you forward: speaking Spanish 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.