The biggest free English learning site, updated daily by the BBC.
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Decades of programmes organised into courses by level, plus daily news-based vocabulary, pronunciation videos covering every English phoneme, grammar explainers and drama series, all with transcripts and all free with no account required. It is the single most reliable free starting point for a learner of British English and it was still publishing new material in August 2026. The volume is its weakness as well as its strength — the site is a sprawl of overlapping series, so pick one course and follow it rather than browsing at random, and note the model is British throughout.
Weekly six-minute discussion built around six target words, with transcript.
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Two presenters discuss a topic — sleep science, AI, urban foxes — at a controlled pace, teaching six pieces of vocabulary along the way, with a full transcript and PDF for every episode. Short enough to do daily on a commute and consistent enough that it becomes a habit, which is why it is the most widely recommended English podcast for learners. The conversational format is scripted rather than spontaneous, so it will not prepare you for fast native speech on its own, and below about B1 the pace is still demanding.
Free skills practice tagged by CEFR level, from the British Council.
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Every activity is labelled by level and skill — reading texts, listening clips, grammar explanations, writing models for emails and essays — with comprehension exercises attached, and all of it is free without an account. Its structure by CEFR level makes it far easier to navigate than most free sites, and there is a free level test to place yourself. The material is exam-and-classroom flavoured rather than entertaining, and the British Council's genuinely paid products (English Online courses, IELTS prep) are marketed alongside it, so check what you are clicking.
Daily American news read at reduced speed with a controlled vocabulary.
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News, science and culture stories written with a limited word list and read at about two-thirds of normal speed, each with the full text alongside the audio, plus long-running series like Everyday Grammar and Words and Their Stories. It remains free with no registration and the site was still publishing daily in August 2026. The register is deliberately simplified American English, so it builds comprehension rather than natural idiom, and its YouTube channel has been dormant since 2025 — go to the website rather than the video feed.
Over 2,300 free whiteboard lessons from nine teachers, with quizzes.
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The classic free English video library: nine long-serving teachers with different accents and styles cover grammar points, vocabulary sets, business English, IELTS and TOEFL, each lesson followed by a quiz, and new lessons are still going up in 2026. Because the teachers overlap, you can find the same topic explained four different ways until one clicks. Presentation is old-fashioned whiteboard-and-marker with no learning path, so you must know what you want to study — it is a reference shelf, not a course.
Thousands of short listening clips of real people from dozens of countries.
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The English Listening Lesson Library Online holds several thousand unscripted conversations recorded with speakers from all over the world, each with transcript, vocabulary notes, a quiz and a difficulty rating. Its unique value is accent variety — you hear Nigerian, Indian, Scottish, Japanese and American English rather than one studio voice, which is what real-world English actually sounds like. The site design is dated and the navigation clunky, and audio quality varies because the recordings are informal, but everything is free with no signup.
Graded listening quizzes on everyday situations, free since the 1990s.
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Randall Davis has been recording scripted but natural dialogues — booking a hotel, a doctor's appointment, a job interview — with pre-listening vocabulary, comprehension quizzes and full scripts, organised into easy, medium and difficult tiers. It is the most practical free resource for the specific skill of understanding functional spoken English, and everything is free. The recordings are dated in places and the interface is plain, but the pedagogy is solid and the quizzes give you honest feedback on whether you actually understood.
Every news story rewritten at seven levels, with audio and worksheets.
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Sean Banville publishes current news stories graded into seven versions from very easy to near-native, each with audio at several speeds and a stack of downloadable exercises — gap-fills, dictations, discussion questions. The multi-level format means you can read the same story at your level and then reread it a level up, which is an unusually effective way to push comprehension. It is entirely free, but the site is ad-supported and visually cluttered, and the worksheets are aimed at classrooms so self-studiers will ignore half of them.
Daily world news in three difficulty levels, aimed at genuine beginners.
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Short news items published every day in a 1,000-word, 2,000-word and 3,000-word vocabulary version with audio, so beginners can read real current events from very early on — it was still publishing daily in August 2026 and stays free. Level 1 is genuinely accessible at A1–A2, which very little authentic material is. Editing quality is inconsistent, with occasional awkward or ungrammatical sentences, the site is heavy with ads, and the pronunciation in the recordings is not always model-quality, so use it for volume rather than as a model of correct English.
Wikipedia rewritten in short sentences and a basic vocabulary, free.
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Around a quarter of a million articles written with simple words and short sentences, covering the same subjects as full Wikipedia — an endless supply of free reading on whatever you are already interested in, which is the hardest thing to find at lower levels. Reading about your own field here first makes the full English article much easier afterwards. Coverage is uneven and articles are much shorter and sometimes less accurate or less current than the main edition, so treat it as reading practice rather than a reference.
Clear grammar explanations with free exercises, written by one teacher.
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Seonaid Beckwith explains one grammar point per page in plain language with example sentences and several free practice exercises, covering tenses, conditionals, reported speech, articles and the rest of the usual trouble spots. When you need a fast, trustworthy answer to 'when do I use the present perfect', this is quicker than any video. Explanations are British-oriented and deliberately simplified, so advanced learners chasing nuance will outgrow it and should move to a full reference grammar; some downloadable packs are paid.
Submit writing, get instant CEFR-level feedback and marked-up corrections.
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Cambridge's own automated marking tool: write to one of hundreds of prompts, and within seconds you get an estimated CEFR level plus sentence-by-sentence highlights of what needs fixing, then resubmit and watch the score move. For a self-studying learner with no teacher, this closes the biggest gap in solo English study — nobody to correct your writing. The feedback is automated, so it flags problems more reliably than it explains them, and richer features and exam-style tasks sit behind the paid tier.
Animated cutaway diagrams showing how your mouth makes each English sound.
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For every English consonant and vowel you get an animation of the tongue, lips and vocal folds, a written description of the articulation and video of a speaker producing it — the visual explanation that finally fixes sounds like /θ/, /ɹ/ and the vowel pairs no amount of listening had corrected. Free, from the University of Iowa, no account needed. It is a phonetics reference rather than a practice tool: there is no recording, feedback or drilling, and it covers American English (with separate Spanish and German sections).
Search a billion words of real American English to settle usage questions.
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The Corpus of Contemporary American English lets you ask which words actually collocate with which, whether a phrasing is common in academic writing but rare in speech, and how usage has shifted over decades — evidence rather than opinion, which is exactly what advanced writers need. Free after a quick registration, with sister corpora for British English, news and academic text. The interface is academic and unfriendly, free accounts hit query limits, and it assumes you can interpret concordance lines, so it is genuinely a C-level tool.
Definitions written in a 3,000-word vocabulary, with CEFR level on every word.
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Definitions are constrained to a controlled defining vocabulary, so you never need a second dictionary to understand the first one, and each headword carries a CEFR tag telling you whether it is worth learning yet, alongside British and American audio, grammar patterns and collocations. The free site covers the full Advanced Learner's Dictionary. It is monolingual by design, which is right for intermediate learners and off-putting for absolute beginners, and the ads and app upsells on the free site are noticeable.
Learner definitions plus bilingual entries in dozens of languages, all free.
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The other great free learner's dictionary, distinguished by pairing every English entry with a translation into your own language — genuinely useful when a monolingual definition leaves you unsure — plus CEFR levels, example sentences, both accents in audio and a good grammar section. It is often quicker than Oxford for a rough sense of a word. Coverage of newer slang lags, the bilingual entries are much thinner than the English ones for smaller languages, and the site is ad-heavy.
American learner's dictionary with more example sentences than any other.
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This is the former Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary under Britannica's roof (learnersdictionary.com now redirects here), and its distinguishing feature is volume of examples — most entries show the word in many real sentences, which teaches usage far better than a definition does. Best for learners of American English who keep producing grammatically correct but unnatural sentences. It is American-only in spelling and idiom, the site is ad-supported, and the rebrand means older bookmarks and links point at the wrong place.
Check whether your sentence sounds English by finding it in published texts.
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Type a phrase you are unsure about and Ludwig shows you real sentences from newspapers, journals and books that use it, so you can see whether native writers actually say 'discuss about' or 'make a research'. It answers the question a dictionary cannot — not what a word means but whether your combination of words exists. The free tier limits daily searches and holds back some features, results skew towards formal written English rather than speech, and it will confirm a phrasing exists without telling you whether it fits your context.
Adaptive vocabulary training with unusually well-written word explanations.
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An adaptive quiz engine that keeps testing you on words in varied contexts until they stick, backed by dictionary entries written as short essays about how a word is really used rather than terse definitions. Building lists from a book or article you are reading and drilling those words is the strongest way to use it. It is aimed largely at American students preparing for standardised tests, so vocabulary skews academic and away from spoken idiom, and serious use of the learner and classroom features needs a subscription.
Speech-recognition app that scores your pronunciation sound by sound.
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You read prompts aloud and ELSA marks which individual phonemes were off, showing what to do differently, plus AI role-plays for conversation practice — the closest thing to a pronunciation coach that runs on your phone at any hour. Most useful if you have a specific accent problem you already know about and want targeted, repeatable drilling. The free tier is limited and the app pushes hard towards Pro; scoring is calibrated to American English and can be harsh or plain wrong on perfectly intelligible non-standard pronunciation, so do not let it grind down your confidence.
The reference channel for American pronunciation, rhythm and reductions.
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Over a thousand free videos analysing American English at the level of individual sounds, linking, stress and the reductions ('gonna', 'wanna', swallowed T's) that make natives hard to understand, often using slow-motion mouth close-ups and clips from films. Still publishing in August 2026. Free on YouTube and the site; the Academy membership is the paid product. It is exclusively American English and technique-heavy — hugely effective if you want to sound American, largely irrelevant if you do not.
Polished British-English lessons on pronunciation, idiom and common mistakes.
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Lucy Bella Earl covers Received Pronunciation, British idioms, confusable words and grammar traps in well-produced videos aimed at intermediate learners, and the channel was still posting weekly in August 2026 to an audience in the millions. It is the most accessible entry point for learners specifically targeting British English. The free videos are broad rather than systematic and increasingly funnel towards the paid courses and study packs, so treat them as supplements to a structured programme rather than the programme itself.
Australian teacher drilling the patterns that get intermediate learners unstuck.
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Emma teaches word patterns, prepositions, and imitation-based speaking practice where you repeat after her to work on rhythm and connected speech, aimed squarely at intermediate learners who understand a lot but freeze when speaking. Her free videos and sample lessons are substantial, and the imitation lessons in particular are a format few other channels do well. Courses are paid and hosted off-site, the accent model is Australian, and beginners will find the assumed baseline too high.
Everyday American conversation, taught slowly with lots of repetition.
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Vanessa films long, warm lessons on real-life situations — small talk, phone calls, understanding fast speech — speaking clearly enough for lower-intermediate learners while still using natural phrasing, and she was still uploading in August 2026. The generous free PDFs that accompany many lessons make it more structured than most YouTube teaching. Paid courses are the business model and are heavily promoted, the pacing is slow if you are already advanced, and the English taught is thoroughly American.
Pronunciation and confidence coaching from a non-native speaker's perspective.
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Hadar Shemesh is a non-native speaker who teaches clarity rather than accent erasure — her framing is that you do not have to sound American to sound good — through videos, a podcast, a free pronunciation masterclass, a 14-day plan and a list of commonly mispronounced words. That perspective makes her unusually good on the psychological side of speaking up in a second language. The substantial courses are paid, the emphasis is on American sounds despite the framing, and the free material is spread across several formats rather than one path.
Long, funny, unscripted British English — over 1,000 free episodes.
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Luke Thompson is a teacher and stand-up comedian, and his podcast reached episode 1,000 in August 2026 with a back catalogue of rambling conversations, comedy, interviews and language analysis in natural British English. It is the best free source of long-form authentic listening for learners who are past the graded-material stage and want volume. Episodes often run over an hour and the speech is genuinely fast and idiomatic, which is the point but makes it unusable below B1; structured vocabulary and grammar episodes sit behind the LEP Premium subscription.
Daily American English podcast about connection, idioms and small talk.
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Lindsay and Michelle release episodes every weekday — it was still publishing daily in August 2026 — focusing on natural conversational American English, idioms and the social side of speaking, with a deliberately upbeat 'connection not perfection' stance. The daily cadence makes it a genuinely sustainable listening habit. Episodes are chatty and low-density, so you get less language per minute than from a scripted show, ads are frequent, and transcripts and the IELTS-specific material require paid membership.
Natural conversations dissected phrase by phrase, with detailed study guides.
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Over a thousand lessons in which hosts from Canada, the US and the UK hold a natural conversation and then unpack the idioms, slang and connected speech in it, with study guides, interactive transcripts and a Discord community. The explain-the-real-conversation format is the most efficient way to convert listening into usable phrases. The archive is largely behind a membership at about $15 a month or $105 a year, only sample guides are free, and the level is stated as intermediate and up, so beginners should look elsewhere first.
Current events told slowly in clear English, with an expression per episode.
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Twice a week, one world-news story explained at deliberately reduced speed, followed by an English expression taught in context — the format that gets intermediate learners listening to real content without hitting a wall. Free listening plus a permanently free tier of extras, with transcripts, translations and exercises in the paid Plus membership. It is slower than natural speech by design, so it is a stepping stone rather than a destination, and the news framing is American in perspective.
Meetings, negotiations and interviews modelled as dialogues you can copy.
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Lessons are built around realistic workplace scenarios — running a meeting, handling a difficult client, answering interview questions — with a dialogue, the target phrases pulled out, and practice, which is far more useful than generic business vocabulary lists. The best pick if your English has to work at your job rather than on holiday. Many episodes are free to stream but transcripts, quizzes and the full library need a subscription, and the corporate-scenario framing gets repetitive if you listen straight through.
Hundreds of free IELTS lessons and model answers aimed at band 7 and above.
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A former IELTS examiner's archive of over 300 pages covering every part of the test, with model answers, band descriptors explained, and the specific mistakes that cap people at band 6 — the Writing Task 2 material in particular is better than most paid courses. Still being updated in 2026, including notes on test changes. It is IELTS-specific rather than general English, the site is organised as a blog archive that takes patience to navigate, and the advanced lessons and ebooks are paid.
The default intermediate grammar book: one point per two-page spread.
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Raymond Murphy's blue book has taught grammar to tens of millions of learners with a simple format — explanation and examples on the left page, exercises on the right — covering everything an intermediate learner needs, with an answer key that makes it genuinely self-study. The fifth edition adds an interactive ebook with audio. Companion volumes exist for elementary (red) and advanced (green) levels, so buy the one that matches you; and it is a practice book, not a course, with nothing on listening, speaking or vocabulary building.
Over 270 stories rewritten at seven levels, so you can read whole books early.
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Graded readers are the highest-return, least-used tool in English learning: these are novels, thrillers, classics and non-fiction rewritten within a controlled vocabulary for each of seven stages from A1 to C1, most with audio, so you can finish real books long before you could read the originals. Reading several at a comfortable level does more for fluency than grinding through one text that is too hard. They are paid, priced per title, and the simplifications strip out much of the original style — the point is volume of comprehensible reading, not literary appreciation.
Large subreddit where natives answer 'is this sentence correct?' within minutes.
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The most active free place to get a specific question answered — why one preposition and not another, whether a sentence sounds natural, what a piece of slang means — usually with several native speakers weighing in and disagreeing productively about register and dialect. Also a good barometer of which resources learners actually stick with. Answers come from ordinary speakers rather than teachers, so explanations of why can be wrong even when the correction is right, and it works best as a supplement to structured study.
The gold-standard spaced-repetition flashcard app with community decks for every language.
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Free on desktop, Android and web; the iOS app is a one-off paid purchase that funds the project. The interface is dated and the options are overwhelming at first, but nothing beats it for retaining vocabulary over years. Most effective when you stop grinding premade decks and start mining sentences from things you actually read or watch.
Marketplace of online tutors and community teachers for 150+ languages.
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One-on-one video lessons from roughly $5–30/hr depending on the language and the teacher's credentials. It is the single fastest way to get real speaking practice, and the reason most self-study plans stall is that they skip this step. Community tutors are cheap conversation partners; professional teachers are worth it if you want structure, homework and error correction.
Gamified daily lessons in 40+ languages; great for habit-building, weak beyond A2.
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The free tier is genuinely usable (ads plus a limited 'hearts' system); Super removes both for about $96/yr. Its real value is streak-driven consistency for absolute beginners, and the smaller courses are thin machine-assisted content rather than the polished Spanish or French trees. Treat it as a warm-up habit, not a curriculum — nobody reaches conversational fluency on Duolingo alone.
Structured dialogue-based courses in 13 languages, built by actual linguists.
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Subscription-only after a handful of free intro lessons, typically $10–15/month with big discounts on annual plans. Lessons are short, dialogue-first and explain grammar properly, which makes it a much more serious beginner course than Duolingo. It covers only 13 languages and effectively stops around B1, so it is a stepping stone rather than a destination.
Audio-only spaced-recall courses that drill speaking from lesson one.
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Thirty-minute audio lessons force you to produce sentences out loud before you see anything written, which builds unusually good accent and recall. Subscriptions run about $15–21/month (all-access covers 50+ languages), and older courses are often available through public libraries. It is slow and vocabulary-light by design, so pair it with reading — but for commute or walking time it is the best use of otherwise dead hours.
Read and listen to real content while tracking every word you know.
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Import podcasts, articles or ebooks, tap unknown words for definitions, and LingQ tracks your known-word count over time. The free tier caps how many saved words you can keep, so serious use means paying (~$13/month or less annually). The interface is clunky and the built-in SRS is weaker than Anki, but the reading-plus-audio workflow with 50+ languages is hard to replicate elsewhere.
Vocabulary drills backed by clips of native speakers saying the phrase.
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The 'learn with locals' video clips are the distinguishing feature — you hear real people at real speed rather than TTS. Be aware that Memrise moved user-created community courses off the main app in 2024 onto a separate site, which gutted what many long-time users valued most, and the app has leaned hard into AI chat features since. Fine as a phrase-and-vocabulary app for major languages; if you came for the community decks, use Anki instead.
Structured CEFR courses with written corrections from native speakers.
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Covers 14 languages along an explicit CEFR path, and its best feature is the community exchange: you submit short writing or speaking exercises and real native speakers correct them, free of charge, in exchange for you correcting theirs. The free tier is limited to core lessons; Premium unlocks grammar, offline and the full path. A solid Babbel alternative if you specifically want writing practice with human feedback.
Fill-in-the-blank sentence drills for vocabulary after you know the basics.
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Built on Tatoeba sentences, it drills words in context by frequency band across 50+ languages and 170+ language pairings, with a genuinely generous free tier. It explicitly starts where beginner apps end, so it is the natural 'what now?' answer for someone who finished a Duolingo tree. Sentences are crowd-sourced and occasionally awkward or oddly specific, and it teaches nothing about grammar explicitly.
Conversation-driven courses in 70+ languages, often free through your library.
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Lessons build outward from real conversations with colour-coded literal translations and cultural notes, and the catalogue includes endangered and indigenous languages nobody else covers. Retail pricing starts around $10/month, but a very large number of public libraries and universities give patrons free access — check yours before paying. Content depth per language is modest, so it suits travellers and early learners more than people pushing toward B2.
Free audio courses that teach you to reason your way into the language.
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Mihalis Eleftheriou records real lessons with a real student and walks you through constructing the language yourself using cognates and logic — Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Turkish, Arabic and Swahili are covered. Completely free, no ads, no sign-up, funded by donations. The Spanish course in particular is one of the most recommended free resources anywhere; the trade-off is small vocabulary and no reading or writing practice.
Century-old bilingual course books that take you from zero to solid B2.
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Each course is ~100 short bilingual dialogues with native audio: you passively absorb for months, then start an 'active wave' translating back into the target language. Books run around €30 (e-courses ~€50) across 70+ languages, and the method is a long-standing favourite among polyglots for reaching real reading fluency. Caveats: many courses are only published from French, the humour is dated, and it demands daily discipline with no gamification to carry you.
Self-study course books with audio for 30+ languages, beginner to advanced.
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The 'Complete' books are proper structured courses with dialogues, graded exercises and downloadable audio, and the range covers languages no app touches. Quality varies noticeably by title and author, so check reviews for your specific language before buying rather than trusting the series name. Their graded readers and 'Script Hacking' alphabet guides are also worth knowing about for non-Latin scripts.
Routledge's beginner course books with free downloadable native-speaker audio.
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Over 70 languages, each a step-by-step beginner course written by an experienced teacher, and crucially all the audio is free to download from the companion site even if you find the book secondhand. Slightly more academic and grammar-forward than Teach Yourself, which some learners prefer. Like any book series the individual titles differ in quality; the less common languages are often the only decent course in existence.
Audio courses where you learn by listening in on a real lesson.
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You sit in on a recorded lesson with two students and build sentences aloud alongside them, with no writing, homework or memorisation; 19 languages are available. It is remarkably good at making the core grammar of Romance languages click in a few hours. Vocabulary coverage is small, the recordings are old, and the courses after Michel Thomas's death are taught by other teachers with mixed results — treat it as a fast on-ramp, not a course of study.
Text, call and correct with native speakers in a language-exchange feed.
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Built-in correction tools let partners fix your messages inline, and the social 'moments' feed gets you corrections from strangers without arranging a call. Free for the core exchange; VIP adds more translations and simultaneous target languages. The persistent caveat is that a fair share of users treat it as a dating app, and exchange partners are unreliable — it works best once you already have some output to correct.
Language-exchange app with moderated profiles and easy voice/video calls.
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Same idea as HelloTalk but with vetted profiles and a cleaner focus on actual voice and video calls, which makes it noticeably less spammy in practice. Free to use; Pro adds unlimited partner search and extra languages, and the app also sells paid tutors. Both apps live or die on finding one or two committed partners, so expect to message a lot of people before anything sticks.
Large tutor marketplace with subscription-style lesson packages.
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100,000+ tutors across 120+ subjects, with a free replacement if your first tutor is a bad fit. The main structural difference from italki is that Preply pushes weekly lesson subscriptions and takes a large commission from tutors, which some learners consider a reason to prefer italki. Worth comparing side by side for your language — prices, availability and tutor quality differ per market rather than per platform.
Record yourself and get free human feedback on your pronunciation.
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A 501(c)(3) nonprofit: you shadow native audio, record your own version, and a real human coach returns feedback — 10 free submissions a month, unlimited for about $20/month, with full scholarships for anyone who needs one. Covers French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and English. It only fixes pronunciation and delivery, so it complements rather than replaces conversation practice.
Crowd-sourced pronunciations of nearly any word by native speakers.
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Around 6 million words recorded by native speakers across 400+ languages, usually with several accents per word so you can hear regional variation. Free to search on the site; the paid tiers are aimed at API users and bulk audio downloads. Indispensable for names, place names and anything a TTS voice would mangle — many learners wire it directly into Anki for card audio.
Open database of 13M example sentences with translations across 400+ languages.
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A collaborative, Creative Commons-licensed corpus you can search for real usage of a word or download in bulk to build your own decks. It is the raw material behind Clozemaster and countless Anki decks rather than a study tool in itself. Sentences are contributed by volunteers, so quality and naturalness vary — prefer sentences from native contributors and cross-check anything surprising.
Dual subtitles and click-to-look-up on Netflix and YouTube.
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A Chrome extension that shows target-language and native subtitles simultaneously, lets you click any word for a definition, replay a line, and save phrases for review. The free tier already covers dual subs, dictionary lookups and the CEFR-graded video catalogue; Pro (about $6/month) adds machine translation, speech recognition and better AI lookups. It transforms passive Netflix time into study time, but you need enough of a base — roughly B1 — for subtitle mining to beat just watching.
Turns Netflix, YouTube and web pages into Anki-style sentence cards.
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The heavyweight immersion toolkit: one-click sentence mining with audio, screenshot and definitions, plus its own SRS and known-word tracking, for 11 languages including Japanese, Korean, Mandarin and the major European ones. A 10-day free trial then a subscription (roughly $10/month). Overkill unless you are committed to a sentence-mining routine — if that describes you it saves hours a week, otherwise Language Reactor's free tier is enough.
Click any word while reading the web to translate it and make a flashcard.
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A browser extension plus web reader covering 100+ languages: click a word or drag across a phrase, get an inline translation, and it becomes a flashcard automatically. The free tier gives unlimited single-word translations but caps phrases and AI explanations at 10 a day; Premium is $6/month. Simpler and cheaper than LingQ or Migaku if all you want is frictionless reading of articles and ebooks.
Mass-sentence audio drilling for listening and speaking automaticity.
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You listen to and repeat thousands of native-recorded sentences on a spaced schedule, which builds fluent output patterns without explicit grammar study. It covers 60+ languages and keeps nine minority languages (Catalan, Welsh, Taiwanese, Kurdish and others) permanently free as a preservation effort. It is expensive at roughly $20–40/month, and the repetition is monotonous — most reviewers call it effective but overpriced, so try the 7-day trial first.
Free public-domain US government language courses with textbooks and audio.
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Foreign Service Institute, Peace Corps and DLI materials — full textbooks plus hundreds of hours of audio — are public domain and hosted here for free across dozens of languages. The depth is extraordinary and the FSI Basic courses take diplomats to professional working proficiency, which no consumer app attempts. The recordings are from the 1960s–80s, the drills are relentless, and some vocabulary is dated (Cold War era), so they suit disciplined self-studiers, not casual learners.
Street interviews with dual subtitles, produced in dozens of languages.
YouTubeМедиа Freemium СреднийПродвинутый A2–C1
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A franchise of local producers filming unscripted street interviews, each episode subtitled in the target language and English, which is the closest free thing to hearing how people genuinely speak. All YouTube episodes are free; membership adds transcripts, vocabulary lists and exercises. Real-speed unscripted speech is hard early on — start with the slower 'Super Easy' episodes if you are below B1.
Podcast courses that teach through a real learner's lesson, season by season.
ПодкастыКурсы Freemium НачальныйСредний A1–B2
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Mark Pentleton teaches a genuine student while you listen in, across French, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Portuguese, Japanese and Gaelic. The podcast seasons are free on any podcast app and are structured as a real curriculum rather than scattered episodes; the Academy sells premium lesson notes, video and bonus audio. Ideal commuting material for beginners through B1, and the Spanish and French series are the strongest.
3M-member forum for method debates, resource recommendations and reality checks.
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The default place to ask 'is X app worth it' or 'what should I do at B1' and get answers from people who have actually done it, plus per-language subreddits (r/Spanish, r/LearnJapanese, r/French) with far better resource lists. The wiki and FAQ head off most beginner questions. Expect strong ideological camps — comprehensible-input purists versus textbook people — so read a few threads before taking any single answer as settled.
Free immersion-learning roadmap plus tools and a large learner community.
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A detailed staged roadmap for acquiring a language through massive comprehensible input — what to do at each stage, when to start output, how to mine sentences — with a free tracker, starter courses and an active Discord. The roadmap and community are free; vocabulary decks, advanced courses and coaching are paid. It is opinionated to the point of dogma about avoiding early output and translation, so take the framework and ignore the purity rules if they do not fit your goals.
Use an AI chatbot as a patient, free-ish conversation and grammar partner.
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Modern assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) will roleplay a scenario at your level, correct your writing with explanations, generate graded reading, and hold voice conversations — endlessly patient and available at 2am, which no tutor is. Free tiers are enough for text practice; voice modes generally need a subscription. The caveats are real: models are noticeably weaker and more error-prone in lower-resource languages, they tend to produce bland textbook register rather than how people actually speak, and they will not correct you unless you explicitly ask them to.
Hear how a word is really said, searched across millions of YouTube clips.
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Type a word or phrase and it plays back real YouTube clips of people saying it in context, across 25 languages plus sign languages, so you get natural intonation and regional variation rather than an isolated dictionary recording. Free, donation-supported, no account needed. Complements Forvo: Forvo for single words, YouGlish for phrases and prosody.
Free multilingual dictionary with etymologies, IPA and full conjugation tables.
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Over 100 language editions; the English edition alone has millions of entries covering hundreds of languages, with IPA, declension and conjugation tables, etymologies and usage notes that commercial apps usually paywall. The etymology sections are quietly one of the best vocabulary-retention tools available. Being crowd-sourced, coverage is uneven and rare entries can be wrong — cross-check anything unusual against a native-language dictionary.
Licensed TV shows with interactive subtitles in 15 languages.
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A streaming service where every show has clickable dual subtitles and saved words become flashcards, covering 15 languages with apps on phone, Roku and TV. It solves the 'what do I watch' problem for languages where Netflix's catalogue is thin. The library is much smaller than a mainstream streamer and it is subscription-only — if you already pay for Netflix, Language Reactor's free tier does most of the same job.
Free public-domain audiobooks in 40+ languages, read by volunteers.
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Thousands of public-domain books recorded by volunteers, downloadable as MP3 or M4B with no account. Pairing a LibriVox recording with the matching free Project Gutenberg text gives you a full audiobook-plus-ebook study set for nothing. Two caveats: recordings are volunteer-quality and vary a lot reader to reader, and everything is out of copyright, so the language is often a century old — great for literature, poor for modern slang.
AI speaking partner that makes you talk out loud every session.
Приложения Платно НачальныйСредний A1–B1
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Unlike most apps it is built around producing speech: you repeat, roleplay and converse with an AI tutor that gives pronunciation and phrasing feedback in real time. Covers Spanish, French, Korean, Japanese, Italian and Chinese for English speakers, with a 7-day trial then a subscription (roughly $20/month or $99/yr). Good for overcoming the fear of speaking before your first human lesson, but an AI will not push back or drift off-script the way a real conversation partner does.
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