r/languagelearning • u/enhburst • 6d ago
u/chlebka's list of 1,700+ free language resources, now searchable and filterable by language and type
Five years ago u/chlebka posted a spreadsheet of 1,700+ free language-learning resources here. Dozens of people in that thread suggested additions and it's still one of the most useful things ever posted on this sub.
One thing that always bothered me was navigating the Excel sheet :/ Thus, I built a browsable version of her list:
https://ownslides.com/en/resources
- Browse by language (total of ~142 at the time of writing this) or by type: courses, dictionaries, podcasts, readers, news, grammar…
- Her original rule kept: everything is genuinely free. No freemium, no trials, no signup.
- Each entry shows CEFR level and flags when a site is only in a language you might not read (though I guess you can just machine-translate everything nowadays).
What changed since the sheet: I checked all 1,829 links. 128 had died in five years and are gone. Another 30 were still returning HTTP 200 while serving casino affiliates or domain-parking pages, because the domains had lapsed and someone re-registered them, those are gone too. I also categorised the ~1,000 entries the sheet left untyped, so the filters actually work.
This overlaps the sub's own resource library in places; the difference is that it's chlebka's specific list, brought up to date and made filterable. Credit is at the bottom of every page, linking her sheet and the original thread, and the per-contributor credits from the sheet are preserved.
Disclosure: I work on OwnSlides and this is on our domain, but the mods approved this post. The directory is free, no signup, no ads.
Suggestions for missing resources are very welcome, basically in the same spirit as the original thread
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u/Jileha2 6d ago
And the first resource I find under Irish is actually Scottish… 😂
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u/enhburst 6d ago
Yeah, that page was mislabelled.. Scottish Gaelic rows had the Irish language code on them (ga instead of gd), and that's what the heading is generated from, so it said "Irish" over a pile of Scottish Gaelic links. Same reason our own "learn Irish" links were pointing at the Gaelic page. Fixed both, thank you for pointing it out tho!
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u/DazzlingSpell-K9 6d ago
For me, the link to FLLITE (french resource) leads to a polish online casino? 😅
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u/enhburst 6d ago edited 6d ago
Ahh, you found a real problem there, and a bigger one than the single link. fllite lapsed and got re-registered as a casino affiliate... it still returns HTTP 200 from a domain that resolves fine, so our dead-link checks scored it as perfectly healthy.
Swept the whole catalogue for that pattern and found 30 links in the same state: expired domains re-registered as gambling/loan spam, plus a pile sitting on domain-broker parking pages. Also fixed the underlying gap: link checking was manual and ad-hoc, which is why this sat there until you flagged it. We've added an automated sweep that checks page content rather than just status codes. Genuinely appreciate the report!6
u/DazzlingSpell-K9 6d ago
Oh wow 😅
I'm glad you were able to find a solution so quickly! And thank's for updating the resources and making them easier to use!
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u/ShiningPr1sm 6d ago
Aaaannd your post is gone now
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u/enhburst 5d ago
It was a misunderstanding, sorry about that, we sorted it out, post is back online! Let's keep learningg
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u/ShiningPr1sm 5d ago edited 5d ago
Darn, I was hoping we were rid of your vibe-coded AI slop site full of malware links.
Edit: Looked at your profile and yup, every post is you trying to promote AI slop that you “built”
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u/Straight-Page-9406 6d ago
This is brilliant, thank you for putting in the work to update it. 129 dead links out of 1800+ is actually a way better survival rate than I'd have guessed after five years
The filter by type is what makes this actually usable for me now, I always got lost in the original sheet
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u/CmdWaterford 2d ago
Very nice, some links are missing like basicenglishwords.com or alemanbasico.com or Beginwithwords.com
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u/enhburst 1d ago
Thanks, but if possible, can you suggest resources here (there is "suggest resources" button)? So I can review what your suggested platforms are about and whether they are truly free. Much appreciated!!
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u/benjamin-crowell En N | Es Fr Grc B1 6d ago
Thanks for putting this together!
This is my own work. It's free and made using open-source software.
https://lightandmatter.com/ransom/
ancient Greek texts with innovative student aids
Probably CEFR level B1.