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107 free resources across 45 languages.
Books in Abkhaz.
Grammar of the Aklanon language.
The most used words in Aklanon.
Articles about lifestyle and fashion in Albanian.
Free comics in Arabic (only 2 so far).
The Mormon Book in Arabic.
(“Arab world's largest open platform for books”) - Arabic literature to read online or to download as a pdf file for free.
Over 60.000 sentences translated from Cantonese to Mandarin and English.
Free books in Cantonese.
Free comics in Catalan.
Free books in Chinese.
Free e-books.
A dictionary and reading resources.
Books in public domain.
Exercises for Czech children, but adult learners may also find them useful.
Free books in Danish.
Free books in Danish.
Free comics in Dutch.
Free books in Dutch.
The Grimm Brothers' tales in Dutch.
Free books in Esperanto.
Free books in Esperanto.
Estonian newspapers list.
Free books in Finnish.
Free comics in French.
Free French e-books.
Free books in French.
Free books in French (downloadable).
3000 words and 130 West Frisian sayings with their Dutch translation. 100% crowdsourced
Lots of free books
Videos with subtitles. The languages are many and to change from one to another you just need to add the forward slash and the language you want to learn (e.g. /arabic).
More than 1 million translations and transcriptions of song lyrics.
You can spin the Earth around and choose news sites from all over the world here!
TED Talks available with subtitles in many languages.
A virtual library with books related to foreign language learning. Includes some courses directly on the site.
Website full of short parallel (bilingual) stories.
Free comics in German.
Free books in German.
Movies and series, usually with subtitles.
Greek e-books.
Reading material.
Free editions of ancient Greek texts — Homer, Herodotus, Plato, Euripides and the New Testament — with built-in reading aids that gloss vocabulary and grammar on the page.
Free books in Hebrew.
Free comics in Hindi.
Comics in Hindi.
Reading comprehension exercises.
Free comics in Hungarian.
Texts to readin Icelandic and English simultaneously.
Jonas Halgrimssons poetry with translations, read in English and Icelandic.
Interactive site for children learning Icelandic, part 1.
Interactive site for children learning Icelandic, part 2.
Interactive site for children learning Icelandic, part 3.
Free books in Icelandic.
Free books in Icelandic.
An introduction to Indonesian linguistics.
Free books in Irish (most of them are rather old).
Free comics in Italian.
Grimm Brothers tales in Italian.
Hans Christian Andersen tales in Italian.
Japanese e-books.
Basic vocabulary and phrases.
Playlist on Viki collecting all the shows available with Korean subtitles.
A comic to learn hangul in a fast and easy way.
Reading material for beginners.
A textbook for beginners.
Free books in Latin.
Simple stories for practice.
The New Testament in Norwegian (complete).
Norwegian tales.
Free books in Norwegian.
Free comics in Philippine.
Free books and audiobooks in Polish.
Free books in Polish.
“A catalog of free e-books in Polish. Chiefly consists of classic literature in public domain.”
“A quite large library of free titles available in the Polish e-book store Woblink. To download the free e-books, you’ll have to create an account (“załóż konto” in the top right corner) and log in.”
Free comics in Portuguese.
Free books in Brasilian Portuguese.
Free books in Portuguese.
Free comics in Romanian.
Comic stripes.
Entries in Torlakian.
Slovenian literature.
Free e-books and other resources.
Swedish fairy tales.
Free books in Swedish.
101 Quenya phrases. Includes literal translations and IPA.
1000 most common Ukrainian words with translation.
Urdu
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Beginning Urdu is a first-year textbook that builds students’ skills to intermediate proficiency through 8 thematic units and 41 chapters. It combines grammar, vocabulary, culture, and real-life tasks like shopping or travel. Authentic materials (photos, sayings, poetry) enrich learning, and the book follows ACTFL’s five Cs, encouraging both classroom practice and independent use of Urdu. The book is accompanied by audio files, all of which are available on the drive. If the book file doesn't open, don't worry, just download it and it will be available to you :)
Collection of several novels, from romantic to religious.
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.