(free) Language Resources

During the march 2020 lockdown I collected resources I could find on tumblr and listed them on my langblr chiara-klara-claire (language blog). I am sharing resources for Nordic languages here! I will be updating this from time to time, so save this page in your fav’s!

Read my (language-related) articles: tell apart Nordic Languages, Finnish / Icelandic, Dutch / Swedish comparison, Sámi languages &cultures.. 🇮🇸🇸🇪🇳🇴🇫🇮🇩🇰🇦🇽

I want to study language X, how do I start?

First of all you can get basic info about a given language on omniglot, ielanguages.com and wikipedia, then look up some videos and music to know what it sounds like. At this point you can start using apps as duolingo, memrise, online lessons and if you like the language enough buy a textbook. If you are in Facebook you can find groups for language learning and help there

To find music in a given language, search “[language] songs/ top 100” on spotify your youtube or listen to a radio anywhere in the world, to find online newspapers, broadcast, films, novels etc do the same on google. You might not like the first results but algorythms should help you find more content with time 🙂

Scandinavian languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

false friends within Scandinavian languages: coming soon on this blog!
Nordic vocabulary Bildethema Norwegian site with vocabulary +audio of Nordic languages (Swedish, Greendlandic..) & immigrant languages (Somali, Dari, Albanian..)
Literature: project Runeberg.org | Heimskringla.no
Moomin cartoons are available on youtube in a lot of Nordic languages! (what are Moomins?)

🇩🇰DANISH

Grammar: basby.dk – grammatikøvelser for exercises and useful grammar tips (til or for etc) | danskherognu.dk | gyldendal Danish in real life situations +grammar & listening | Danskprøverne examples at integrationsviden.dk– and mundtlig prøve on youtube 1 / 2
Reading & Listening: duda.dk kind of an encyclopedia ereolen.dk free books & audiobooks | sproget.dk topics related to Danish & language in general | golittle.dk Short (<20 minutes) sound clips + (monolingual) glossary | youtube channel Børnehulen Short videos for children narrated in Danish
Danish dialects yt playlist with people speaking various Danish dialects
tv/radio: DR(tv) (yt: DR essensen), TV2, newspapers: Politiken…

🇸🇪SWEDISH

Swedish for All: vocab+videos, grammar, further resources
grammar: wikibooks | irregular verb list | blog Lär dig svenska (useful expressions/grammar)
Digitala Spåret: random language Resources | Akelius Språkkurs: short audiobooks with text | Astrid Lindgren reading+ other children shows, +many of her movies are on YT! |
material for Swedex Swedish Examinations
tv/radio: SVT (Sveriges Television), SR (Sverigesradio–> audiodrama, podcasts, children radio, Klartext news in easy swedish)

🇳🇴NORWEGIAN

grammar: grammatikk.com
exercises: infonorwegian ; exploringnorwegiangrammar
Bergenstest eksempeltester | norskprøven eksempeloppgaver at enovate.no
tv/radio: NRK

insular North Germanic languages: Icelandic and Faroese

ICELANDIC

Tungumálatorg: hubsite linking to sites to learn Icelandic and grammar PDF icelandiconline.com free course to learn Icelandic | Viltu læra íslensku – dialogues
grammar: mímir.dettifoss.org
Reading & Listening: ylhyra – texts you can listen to with translations | Icelandic children tv KrakkaRUV | RÚV fréttir – Icelandic news you can listen to
ISLEX online multilingual dictionary Icelandic-other Nordic languages

FAROESE

dictionary: sprotin.fo
online courses: faroeseonline.com | studyinfaroe stdin.fo audio material
news: Kringvarp Føroya

Uralic languages: Finnish, Estonian

🇫🇮FINNISH

jkorpela.fi intro to Finnish and its grammar
A Taste of Finnish dialogues, basic grammar
uusikielemme vocab & grammar
Supisuomea Finnish dialogues and grammar explanations + vocabulary glossary (FI -EN/EE/DE..) | jyu.fi Finnish grammatical cases
magazine with articles of different levels: puhutaan suomea
YLE news in easy Finnish

🇪🇪ESTONIAN

Let’s Learn Estonian videos on youtube
keeleklikk.ee online course (free but requires an account)

Indigenous Nordic languages

SÁMI LANGUAGES

app Indylan: offers European indigenous languages as North Sami, Basque and Gaelic
Say it in Saami: first online Sámi phrasebook. You can listen to the phrases in North, Inari and Skolt Sámi. it features five short documentary films, a quick guide to Saami culture and a soundboard in North Sámi.
Grammar guide (North Sámi)
online dictionaries, News and TV resources

🇬🇱GREENLANDIC

listen to Greenlandic pronunciation on Forvo: https://forvo.com/languages/kl/

Extra help

multilingual sites you can check before going for language-specific resources

forvo: words pronounced by natives
Unilang (forums)
POD 101 YT channels
translation: reverso, glosbe.com, linguee, deepl

Vocabulary / phrases 📖

my Pinterest Language board
phrases/vocab: TransparentLanguages (+audio) | Loecsen (+audio) | Babadada | dicts.info | polymath | langoland (has small/minority languages like Faroese and Frisian) | ielanguages | duome.eu: Duolingo vocab & tips | Babadum (game)
grammar: ikindalikelanguages | Verbix (verb conjugations)