Free resources

Free language learning Courses

231 free resources across 27 languages.

Carookee(opens in a new tab)

A short Albanian course.

Amharic Basic Course 2(opens in a new tab)

Follow up on the previous course.

Amharic Teacher(opens in a new tab)

Short Amharic lessons with audio.

Arabic in Jordan(opens in a new tab)

10 Jordan Arabic lessons with mp3 files.

Explore Arabic(opens in a new tab)

An Instagram profile that offers lessons.

Learn Arabic with Al Jazeera(opens in a new tab)

Al Jazeera platform for learning Arabic.

Learn to write in Arabic Alphabets(opens in a new tab)

Arabic lessons with audio and exercises.

Madinah Arabic(opens in a new tab)

Free Arabic lessons for both beginners and advanced learners.

Uczymy się egipskiego(opens in a new tab)

A private Facebook group for learning Egyptian Arabic.

Armenian Language Lessons(opens in a new tab)

A free Eastern Armenian online course - 9 chapters.

An introduction to Bambara(opens in a new tab)

An introductory short course provided with audio and pronunciation tool.

Basic Bambara – the podcast!(opens in a new tab)

Listen along and learn the very basics of the language through actual recorded lessons.

Bengali Lesson(opens in a new tab)

Learn the Bengali writing system.

Learning Bengali: From Bangla beginner to advanced learner(opens in a new tab)

A thorough guide for Bengali learners with links to useful resources.

Burmese Language(opens in a new tab)

The Burmese writing system and lessons for all levels of proficiency.

CLC(opens in a new tab)

"Useful lessons on the sounds system and common mistakes."

Digue’m com parles i et diré d’on ets(opens in a new tab)

A test which tells you what Catalan accent you speak.

parla.cat(opens in a new tab)

Free governmental courses - all levels of proficiency.

CLO(opens in a new tab)

A dialogue-based podcast course for beginners.

Coursea - Chinese for Beginners(opens in a new tab)

A course for beginners, by the Benjing University.

Coursea - More Chinese for Beginners(opens in a new tab)

A course for beginners who already know a thing or two.

Learn Chinese(opens in a new tab)

"40 online lessons with audio, including reading, speaking, writing, modern vocabulary, grammar, calligraphy, examples and exercices. All texts and dialogs in mp3 format for download."

Mandarin Blueprint Lite(opens in a new tab)

Learn to read Mandarin Chinese in 30 days without pinyin! You'll have LIFETIME access to the first 3 Phases of the program + their respective flashcards (from level 1 to 13).

Real Chinese(opens in a new tab)

"A lively introduction to Mandarin Chinese in 10 short parts with video clips from the Real Chinese TV series."

E-TEČAJ A1(opens in a new tab)

An interactive course.

Eduvizija(opens in a new tab)

Over 1300 lessons for children.

HR4EU(opens in a new tab)

An interactive course.

Livelingua - Serbo-Croatian(opens in a new tab)

Serbo-Croatian courses, e-books and audio files.

Dansk her og nu(opens in a new tab)

A free course for beginners.

Duński Metodą 5S(opens in a new tab)

A Polish Youtube channel for Danish learners - several dozen lessons with useful phrases.

Duński kurs 100 lekcji + test(opens in a new tab)

Danish basic vocabulary and phrases.

OnlineDansk(opens in a new tab)

Interactive lessons (not the prettiest and they require Adobe Flash Player).

Kurs Esperanto(opens in a new tab)

The conversational method course - 25 lessons, each includes grammar, vocabulary, a text/conversation phrases and translation exercises.

Sekreta Lernado(opens in a new tab)

Online Esperanto lessons.

Keeleklikk(opens in a new tab)

A great Estonian course. For free, but requires an account.

Learn Estonian(opens in a new tab)

Free lessons with audio for beginners.

Speakly(opens in a new tab)

aplikacja estońskiego startupu do nauki języków. Oprócz estońskiego mają tam fiński (tylko po estońsku), angielski, niemiecki, rosyjski i kilka innych. Aplikacja posiada też polską wersję językową i niektóre kursy po polsku.

FSI - French(opens in a new tab)

Click the link to download a free course (pdf + audio files).

Francuski Notesik(opens in a new tab)

PL Cudowna stronka prowadzona przez sympatyczną Panią, sama przygotowuje lessons z nagraniami męża (ma kanał na yt, odpłatnie można kupić dodatkowe materiały).

Français Authentique(opens in a new tab)

A channel about the French language and culture, many useful grammar and vocabulary lessons. The guy speaks slowly and clearly which may make it easier for beginners.

Learn French with Stories(opens in a new tab)

A blog with French learning material like parallel texts of classic books, song lyrics, lessons, etc.

Évaluation de français(opens in a new tab)

A test that asserts your French profficiency.

Learn Frisian(opens in a new tab)

You can learn the basics of West-Frisian here. It's not too advanced but it's being expanded. Also has a little course on East and Old Frisian. One on Söl'ring Frisian (dialect of North Frisian) is in the making

CURSO DE GALEGO PRÁCTICO(opens in a new tab)

"This course was made by the newspaper La opinión Coruña, it has 35 lessons and I think it is quite well done, especially if you don't have access to other textbooks. The only downside to this course is that it doesn't have any audio."

O instituto da lingua galega(opens in a new tab)

" The Galician language institute at the university of Santiago de Compostela has some great resources on its website and also runs the yearly Galician language and culture course for foreigners that I attended a few years ago and highly recommend."

GLOSS(opens in a new tab)

There are HUNDREDS of lessons with audio for each language listed. 41 languages are covered, including several Arabic varieties. You can choose your level of proficiency, the skill you want to improve (reading, listening), the topic and the competence.

Language Transfer(opens in a new tab)

Free audio courses in a bunch of languages, notably the Greek and Spanish courses are extremely praised by learners. It's run by ONE MAN named Mihalis who is a Cypriot from the UK living in South America. The whole course and all the materials are free. Super helpful, and on all platforms - YouTube, soundcloud, and everything is downloadable to your computer via mp3 file.

Learn101(opens in a new tab)

"All our lessons are made to be easy to learn and go straight to the point. Most of our languages contain lessons about the alphabet, grammar, vocabulary, exams, audio, and translation".

LingQ(opens in a new tab)

"Immerse yourself in our vast library of language courses (Books, podcasts, news, business, entertainment, sports, technology, science, travel, politics, food, culture) online and on mobile.". 49 languages are available.

The Yojiik Website(opens in a new tab)

Free courses and lots of resources developed by The Foreign Service Institute (FSI), a United States federal government's primary training institution for the U.S. foreign affairs community employees. 48 languages and over 600 courses in public domain.

Vocabulary Tests(opens in a new tab)

"Test your receptive and productive vocabulary in the languages available. What percentage of the 5000 most frequent words have you mastered?" The test is available for 16 languages

101 Languages - Georgian(opens in a new tab)

A course for beginners - pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, writing system, flashcards, useful links and more.

FSI - German(opens in a new tab)

Click this link to download a free German course.

Germanin(opens in a new tab)

Vocabulary and grammar exercises, idioms, false friends and more.

Gratis Online Deutschkurs(opens in a new tab)

Over 50.000 grammar and vocabulary exercises.

Learn German Online(opens in a new tab)

Why even bother learning German?

Lingohut - German(opens in a new tab)

100 short interactive lessons.

Rechtschreibung(opens in a new tab)

Listening comprehension exercises - telling similar sounds apart etc.

FSI - Greek(opens in a new tab)

Click the link to download a free course (pdf + audio files).

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.