Free language courses
77 language topics, each with a step-by-step guide and a free personalized course.
Pick a language and Learnr builds a course around the reasons you want it: travel, family, work, exams or the sheer fun of a new script. Every course starts with the sounds and the writing system, then grows your vocabulary and grammar through short daily practice with speaking, listening and reading exercises. Below is every language with its own guide, from Spanish and Japanese to Welsh, Yoruba and Ancient Greek.
Every language course
- Learn Spanish: Build real Spanish - vocabulary, grammar, and conversation - a little every day.
- Learn French: Go from your first bonjour to holding a real conversation, at your own pace.
- Learn Japanese: Master the writing systems and speak with confidence, one small lesson at a time.
- Learn German: Go from first words to real conversations with a course built around you.
- Learn Italian: Go from first words to real conversations with a course built around you.
- Learn Korean: Go from reading Hangul to real conversations with a course built around you.
- Learn Chinese: Go from tones and pinyin to real conversations with a course built around you.
- Learn Portuguese: Go from your first words to real conversations with a course built around you.
- Learn Russian: Go from the Cyrillic alphabet to real conversations with a course built around you.
- Learn Arabic: Go from the Arabic script to real conversations with a course built around you.
- Learn Hindi: Go from the Devanagari script to real conversations with a course built around you.
- Learn Dutch: Go from zero to holding real Dutch conversations with a course built around you.
- Learn Latin: Go from the alphabet to reading real Latin with a course built around you.
- Learn American Sign Language: Go from your first signs to real ASL conversations with a course built around you.
- Learn Greek: Go from the Greek alphabet to real conversations with a course built around you.
- Learn Swedish: From your first hej to real Swedish conversations, one short lesson at a time.
- Learn Norwegian: Learn Norwegian the practical way, with Bokmål basics and real conversations.
- Learn Danish: Crack Danish pronunciation and build real conversations, one small lesson at a time.
- Learn Finnish: Finnish is logical once it clicks. Learn the cases and sounds one step at a time.
- Learn Polish: Make sense of Polish spelling, cases and verbs with short, steady lessons.
- Learn Turkish: Learn Turkish suffix by suffix, with sounds and grammar that follow clear rules.
- Learn Vietnamese: Master Vietnamese tones and pronouns, then speak with confidence.
- Learn Thai: Learn to read Thai and hear its five tones, one short lesson at a time.
- Learn Indonesian: One of the most approachable Asian languages, built up word by word.
- Learn Tagalog: Learn Tagalog verbs, markers and politeness, then speak with Filipinos.
- Learn Hebrew: Read Hebrew right to left and speak modern Israeli Hebrew, one lesson at a time.
- Learn Persian: Read the Persian script and speak everyday Farsi with confidence.
- Learn Urdu: Read Nastaliq and speak polite, everyday Urdu, one lesson at a time.
- Learn Bengali: Learn to read Bangla script and speak everyday Bengali, step by step.
- Learn Swahili: Speak the shared language of East Africa, built one prefix at a time.
- Learn Ukrainian: Read Ukrainian Cyrillic and build real conversations step by step.
- Learn Czech: Master Czech sounds and cases, one short lesson at a time.
- Learn Irish: Learn Irish spelling, sounds and mutations, and start speaking Gaeilge.
- Learn Cantonese: Learn the tones, particles and phrases of real spoken Cantonese.
- Learn Punjabi: Read Gurmukhi, hear the tones and speak everyday Punjabi.
- Learn Tamil: Read Tamil script and speak everyday Tamil, one lesson at a time.
- Learn Gujarati: Read Gujarati script and speak with family and friends, one lesson at a time.
- Learn Sanskrit: Read Devanagari and work your way into classical Sanskrit texts.
- Learn Esperanto: Learn the planned language built to be regular, from first word to fluent chat.
- Learn Pinyin: Get Mandarin sounds and tones right from day one with Pinyin.
- Learn Welsh: Mutations, the ll sound and verb-first sentences, made manageable one lesson at a time.
- Learn Scottish Gaelic: From broad and slender vowels to tha and is, a clear path into Gàidhlig.
- Learn Icelandic: Four cases, three genders and the letters þ and ð, broken into steps you can actually follow.
- Learn Hungarian: Vowel harmony, case suffixes and two verb conjugations, untangled step by step.
- Learn Romanian: A Romance language with a Balkan twist, from suffixed articles to să plus subjunctive.
- Learn Serbian: Two alphabets, seven cases and verb aspect, taught one clear step at a time.
- Learn Croatian: From č versus ć to mlijeko and seven cases, a clear route into Croatian.
- Learn Bulgarian: A Slavic language without cases, with articles on the end and verbs that report hearsay.
- Learn Slovak: Six cases, the rhythmic law and words with no vowels, made learnable step by step.
- Learn Lithuanian: An old Baltic language with seven cases and moving stress, broken into small steps.
- Learn Catalan: Open vowels, the punt volat and a past tense built on anar, one lesson at a time.
- Learn Basque: A language isolate with ergative grammar and verbs that agree with everyone in the sentence.
- Learn Malay: No tenses, no conjugation and affixes that turn one root into many words.
- Learn Burmese: Round letters, tones with creaky voice and sentences that end with the verb.
- Learn Khmer: Two consonant series, stacked subscripts and no tones, made readable one lesson at a time.
- Learn Nepali: Devanagari, honorific levels and the ergative -le, taught in clear, small steps.
- Learn Marathi: Devanagari, three genders and verbs that sometimes agree with the object.
- Learn Telugu: Round letters, stacked suffixes and two words for we, taught in small steps.
- Learn Kannada: A Dravidian language of Karnataka, from ottakshara to verb-final sentences.
- Learn Malayalam: Read the rounded Kerala script and speak everyday Malayalam with confidence.
- Learn Amharic: Read the Ethiopian fidel and speak everyday Amharic, one syllable row at a time.
- Learn Yoruba: Hear the three tones, read the tone marks and greet people the respectful Yoruba way.
- Learn Zulu: Click with c, q and x, and let noun classes do the heavy lifting in isiZulu.
- Learn Igbo: Tones, dotted vowels and vowel harmony, taught one short Igbo lesson at a time.
- Learn Somali: Pharyngeal sounds, focus markers and gender by pitch, made clear one lesson at a time.
- Learn Armenian: Read the Mashtots alphabet and build real Armenian sentences, Eastern or Western.
- Learn Georgian: Read the curving Mkhedruli script and take on Georgian verbs one screeve at a time.
- Learn Mongolian: Read Mongolian Cyrillic, follow vowel harmony and build Khalkha sentences step by step.
- Learn Haitian Creole: No verb conjugations, phonetic spelling and a French-rooted vocabulary: Kreyòl made clear.
- Learn Yiddish: Germanic grammar in Hebrew letters, with Hebrew and Slavic words woven through.
- Learn Hawaiian: Thirteen letters, verb-first sentences and the sounds that make place names right.
- Learn Maori: Speak te reo Māori with clear vowels, macrons and confident everyday sentences.
- Learn Ancient Greek: From the alphabet and accents to reading Plato, Xenophon and Homer in the original.
- Learn Old English: Read þ, ð and æ, decline nouns and work your way toward Beowulf in the original.
- Learn Japanese Kanji: Radicals, readings and real words, building toward the 2,136 jōyō kanji.
- Learn Korean Hangul: Read Korean aloud in days: 24 letters, syllable blocks and the sound rules that matter.
- Learn British Sign Language: Two-handed fingerspelling, visual grammar and Deaf culture, step by step.
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