(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
• Nordic vocabulary Bildethema Norwegian site with vocabulary +audio of Nordic languages (Swedish, Greendlandic..) & immigrant languages (Somali, Dari, Albanian..)
• Nordic languages vocabulary sjusjusju: visual dictionary including Nynorsk Norwegian, North Sámi, Faroese, Estonian
• 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 
• radio/news: KVF.fo, Kringvarp Føroya
• online courses: faroeseonline.com | studyinfaroe stdin.fo audio material

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/
• vocabulary: see top of the page

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)

Tests 📝🎧

• grammar/vocab tests: vocabulary size | itt-leipzig (vocab) | languagetrainers | Goethe verlag |
• listening tests: listeningpractice.org | languagetrainers.co.uk

Reading 📚

• gutenberg.org | readlang.com | manybooks.net
• Grimmstories.com
• listen: librivox | lyrikline.org (poems)