Free Spanish learning resources
14 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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A Youtube Channel that has tons of videos on many topics regarding the Spanish Language.
Fun comprehensible input videos for picking up vocab and grammar. The host Laura is funny and energetic, and her content is relatable.
A channel of a Spanish native speaker and teacher, preparing students for the DELE exam.
A Youtube channel. Grammar and learning resources.
A YouTube channel by a Spanish teacher. Lots of grammar, expressions in context, everyday language and translations through funny stories. He also has a blog.
A channel of a Pole living in Malaga. Colloquial language, slang, song translations and more. May include some explicit content (swearwords).
A YouTube channel that goes over many things to help Spanish students. If you want to pay for lessons in addition to the videos you can and they will Skype you.
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 Spanish out loud, and remembering what you met once. That is what OwnSlides is for.
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Talk to an AI tutor that answers back, or join a live room with other learners and native speakers.
Practise what you read
Turn a grammar point or article into exercises, so it moves from recognised to usable.
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.