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Free Internet Resources for Polyglots
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  • Links with “!!!!” are the most important resources for you if you don't know English well;
  • Links with “!!” has low English skill requirement.
  • For the condensed version of this article, go HERE.

Hello polyglots, 😀


The Internet is a giant treasure. It provides so many free services.

On this page we have listed the sites that offer the most useful services for polyglots.

This page has a child: Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Internet-resources-for-learning-specific-languages.

-- Introduction --

Advices

This page is updated from time to time, not frequently, not regularly. “But how do I know what you have changed since the last time I come here?” Try this: hover your mouse over “Actions” in the upper right corner of this page, click on “history”, select the current and the version you saw last time, click on “Compare selected versions”.

It would be great if you pay a visit to every site on the list. Don't lose your curiosity.

If you want to do creative work to help others to learn languages and to know about cultures, please visit Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Productivity-tools-for-polyglots.

It is not recommended to put some banner like “featured in Polyglot Club” on your website, because this list is dynamic.

It is highly recommended to have privacy protections on. An open-source website on privacy: https://privacyguides.org/

Tips

Some programs need to use the command line. There is an article about how to do it on Windows. If you use Linux, you may use Sakura, for its light-weight and Unicode support; If you want to customise the font in command line on Windows, you can use ConEmu.

If you see GitHub or GitLab links, please notice that the download icons mean to download the source code. Unless its language doesn't require compilation, you would need to build the program on your own with the source code. Links to download binaries (built programs) are elsewhere like “Releases” or links in the README.MD file. If you see there are multiple links in “Releases”, select the link with your corresponding operating system, CPU architecture and other clues in its filename. “md5”, “sha256”, “sha512”, etc. are checksum formats, which can be used to check the integrity of the downloaded file.

If you see SourceForge, you may simply click on the “Download” button. In some cases, the downloaded file is not what you want. Then you need to find it out in “Files”.

To run a program written in JavaScript, there is a guide.

If a resource is using Electron.js, it means bloat, because Electron.js can be used to create cross-platform programs easily, but it means to integrate a Chromium in every program, which means bloat. What's more, it has been depending on Node.js, which has been having the background of political activism (Black Lives Matter). Political activism can cause unexpected damage, like node-ipc by RIAEvangelist on GitHub. Also, GitHub has the background of political activism (pro-Ukraine).

See if the program is updated recently. If a program is using Java and is using Apache Log4j 2 and has not been updated since 2021.12.09, then anyone should avoid it.

Resource Selection Criteria

To be listed on this page, resources should possess at least one of the following characteristics:

  1. be rich in FREE content (not just a trial or not fulfilling the need in the free part), and the free content is mostly accurate, and the free content is not all covered by other free ones;
  2. be made with a unique, good idea;
  3. has no better alternatives.

Resources possessing the following characteristics will be given disadvantage:

  1. propagate specific political or religious ideas without possibility of discussion.

Resources with the following features will be given a little priority:

  1. available offline;
  2. available on multiple platforms;
  3. multilingual user interface;
  4. lightweight (including “written in C”);
  5. open source;
  6. privacy-friendly (including “registration not required”).

Blue Light Filter & Dark Mode


 !! https://github.com/Fushko/gummy

Filter for Linux. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/LibreShift/red-moon/

Filter for Android. It is open-source.


 !! http://jonls.dk/redshift/

Filter for desktop. It is open-source.

There is a Redshift Tray for Windows.


 !! https://midnight-lizard.org/

Dark mode for web browsers. It is open-source.

Reminder


 !! https://workrave.org/

Rest reminder. It can lock your keyboard and mouse buttons when it is time. It is open-source.

Write a review


 !! https://github.com/adrcotfas/Goodtime

Pomodoro timer on Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://gitlab.com/axet/android-hourly-reminder

Repeating timer. It alarms every hour or even minute. This reminds you how a minute passes by. It is open-source.


 !! https://bdt.jepfa.de/

Break down a period of time to equal slices on Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/thetwom/toc2

Metronome on Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://www.antcom.de/gtick/

Metronome on Linux. It is open-source.


 !! https://sourceforge.net/projects/openmetronome/

Metronome on Windows. It is open-source.

Self-Control Helper


 !! https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/

Browser add-ons for blocking websites. It is open-source.


 !! https://timelimit.io/

Limit your app using time for Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://detoxdroid.flx-apps.com/

Some other measures to help you on Android. Need to use a PC to enable developer mode. It is open-source.

It can be downloaded from F-droid.


 !! https://selfcontrolapp.com/

Block websites for Mac. It is open-source.

Activity Tracker


https://activitywatch.net/

Track your own activity. It is open-source.


 !! https://codeberg.org/fynngodau/usageDirect

It shows your app usage on Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/SamAmco/track-and-graph

Habit tracker with graphs for Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits

Simple habit tracker for Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://gottcode.org/kapow/

Timer for activities. It can also generate a report. It is open-source.


 !! https://timecop.app/

Timer for activities on mobile. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/Glitchy-Tozier/githo

Form a habit step by step, on Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/Destaq/language-learning-dashboard

Dashboard for language learning, requiring some programming knowledge. It is open-source.

Brain Training

Notice: Whether brain training works or not is still controversial. If you don't believe it works, please skip this section.


https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/gbrainy

Mini-games. It is open-source.


http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/

Dual n-back. It is open-source.

Its latest version 4.8.7 is not available on the website, but on the SourceForge page.


https://github.com/vivekthazhathattil/dekadico

Memory trainer with numbers. It is open-source.

Workout


 !! https://github.com/oliexdev/openWorkout

Workout assistant for Android with animations or videos. It is open-source.

Eating


https://codeberg.org/epinez/Energize/

Nutrition tracker for Android. It is open-source.


https://world.openfoodfacts.org/

Information about food nutrition.

Relaxation & Meditation


 !! https://www.freesoundslibrary.com/

It has more than 200 ambient sounds for download. Turn loop on and enjoy.


 !! https://github.com/CliffracerMerchant/SoundAura

Audio player that plays multiple files simultaneously. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/yuttadhammo/BodhiTimer

Meditation timer. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/Mr-Kumar-Abhishek/brain-beats

Binaural beats and more for desktop. It is open-source.


 !! https://gitlab.com/axet/android-binaural-beats

Binaural beats for Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://sites.google.com/view/jithware

Meditation helper with breath control for Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://colemak.com/

This one supports a lot of languages in Latin script, but it means to learn typing again. It is worth it. You may have noticed that “Kolemak” is even better than Colemak. How to modify keyboards will be discussed below.

A better layout image.

Note that the download link on the home page is “Caps Lock Unchanged”. The idea of replacing Caps Lock with Backspace is great because of its convenience to press Backspace, but having it unchanged is generally better because it's punitive to press Backspace, urging you to make fewer misspellings.

There is a flaw of no “„” or “‚”. You can replace “÷” and “×” with them. Also, the positions of single and double quotation marks only benefit British people for not pressing Shift. You can exchange their positions, too.

If you want to type even more characters, you will need the autocorrection, which can turn multiple characters into one.

There is a modified version and local variants.


https://bepo.fr/wiki/Accueil

Based on French, giving consideration to European languages. But if you don't type French much, it might be not ideal.

No English translation for this site, but it doesn't matter, because this keyboard is generally pre-installed in common operating systems. You just need to find it in the “French” section of keyboard settings.


https://forum.colemak.com/topic/519-rulemak-russian-colemak-layout/

Variant of Colemak for typing Cyrillic. It is available as source code. It is pre-installed on Linux, but it requires some effort as mentioned in the “Colemak” section to make sure it appears in the files. “Greek (Colemak)” is also available.

For Windows, Portable Keyboard Layout is required. Or you can use that keyboard creator to do it manually.


 !! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kl.ime.oh

It is lightweight and supports many languages, with many keyboard layouts. But it has problems, such as poor Japanese support.

Typing


 !! https://github.com/max-niederman/ttyper

Typing practice in command line. Lightweight and customisable. It is open-source.

See ‘usage’ in README.md to understand how to use customised list.

Shortcut


 !! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts in general.


 !! https://defkey.com/

Keyboard shortcuts for specific programs.

Text Editor


 !! https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

It is not only a text editor, but also a tool to run programs in command line through extensions. It is open-source.

Tip for Fcitx support.


 !! https://eck.cologne/peafactory/en/html/notebook_pea.html

Write RTF files with encryption. Java is required. It is open-source.


 !! https://gsantner.net/project/markor.html

Text editor with markdown and todo.txt supports on Android. It is open-source.

All-in-One Productivity


 !! https://github.com/mhss1/MyBrain

All-in-One productivity for Android. It is open-source.

To-Do-List & Task Calendar


 !! https://www.taskcoach.org/

Simple to-do-list. It is open-source.


 !! https://abstractspoon.com/wiki/doku.php?id=todolist-description

Complex to-do-list. It is open-source.


 !! https://super-productivity.com/

Good-looking schedule with a pomodoro timer. It is open-source.

Electron.js is used.

By the way, that “at a glance” video recording guy behaved so easy to understand with some college lecturers.

A video about it.


 !! https://github.com/ransome1/sleek

To-do-list based on todo.txt. It is open-source.

Electron.js is used.


 !! https://tasks.org/

To-do-list on Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://crazymarvin.com/to-dont/

To-don't-list on Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://eck.cologne/peafactory/en/html/calendar_pea.html

Calendar program with encryption. Java is required. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/Etar-Group/Etar-Calendar

Calendar program. It is open-source.

Notebook


 !! https://logseq.com/

Knowledge manager with graphic view of nodes and flashcards. It has plugins including adding Anki Flashcards. It is open-source.

Electron.js is used.


 !! https://mindforger.com/

Note, with hierarchy and tags, can be exported to CSV files. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/zadam/trilium

Advanced notebook with hierarchy, text formatting, link map, synchronization and encryption. Good for working. It is open-source.

Electron.js is used.

This service has been having the background of political activism (pro-Ukraine).


 !! https://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/

Hierarchical notebook with encryption. It is open-source.

This service has been having the background of political activism (pro-Ukraine).


 !! https://qosp.org/

Simple note-taking app for Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://jrnl.sh/

Notebook in command-line. It is open-source.


 !! https://orgmode.org/

Notebook for Emacs, Neovim and other text editors. It is open-source.


 !! https://wiki.dendron.so/

Notebook for VSCodium and VSCode. It is open-source.


 !! https://postkevone.github.io/tiddlyresearch/

Notebook for Tiddly Wiki. It is open-source.

Handwriting Notebook


 !! https://xournalpp.github.io/

Handwritten note editor. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/adil192/saber

Note with handwriting. It is open-source.


 !! https://rnote.flxzt.net/

Whiteboard. It is open-source.

Wiki


https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki

Wiki with many add-ons. It is open-source.

It has an open-source viewer for Android.


https://tiddlywiki.com/

Non-linear Wiki on web that require some effort to install. It is open-source.

It has an open-source viewer for Android.


 !! https://www.zim-wiki.org/

Simple wiki. It is open-source.

Diary


 !! http://lifeograph.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page

Diary for desktop. It is open-source.


 !! https://billthefarmer.github.io/diary/

Diary for Android. It is open-source.

Timeline


 !! http://thetimelineproj.sourceforge.net/

Timeline. It is open-source.

Mind Map


 !! https://docs.freeplane.org/

Fork of the discontinued FreeMind. Java is required. It is open-source.

A video about it; another video about it.


 !! https://github.com/juzzlin/Heimer

Simple and intuitive mind map. It is open-source.


http://tiddlymap.org/

Mind map for Tiddly Wiki. It is open-source.

Hierarchical Spreadsheet


 !! https://strlen.com/treesheets/

It combines mind map, spreadsheet and other forms of data. It is open-source.

A video about it.

Media Management


 !! https://www.tagspaces.org/

File tagging. It is open-source.


 !! https://calibre-ebook.com/

E-Book management tool. It is open-source.

The main drawback is it has to keep a copy of your book in a central directory, which will cause duplication if you also keep the book elsewhere.


 !! https://github.com/mateusz-bak/openreads-android

E-Book tracker on Android. It is open-source.

Web Table Extraction


 !! https://www.libreoffice.org/

Office suite with spreadsheet that can capture web tables. It is open-source.


 !! https://merribithouse.net/copytables/

Capture tables from webpages for Chrome and Safari. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/nirantak/copytables

Fork of Copytables for Firefox. It is open-source.

International Phonetic Alphabet


 !! https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/

The site of the maker. The full IPA chart can be downloaded here. There is also a link to an interactive IPA chart.


 !! https://easypronunciation.com/en/ipa-phonetic-transcription-converters

IPA and romanization transcriptions. Very detailed, but there is a limitation for each hour. Its “More Tools” is also noteworthy.


https://github.com/dmort27/epitran/

Transcription to IPA. It is open-source. It won't help if you don't know Python.

It only supports words, as is discussed. Somebody can develop a tool for sound change.

Logic


https://forallx.openlogicproject.org/

Book edited by different groups of people. Its work is under a public license.


https://www.logicmatters.net/tyl/

Book, conditioned distribution allowed.


https://fsi-languages.yojik.eu/

Mainly courses of Foreign Service Institute, Defense Language Institute, Peace-Corps. FSI is initially aimed at middle-aged officials, so maybe not everyone likes it. Its work is partly in public domain.


https://www.coursera.org/browse/language-learning/

Some super cool courses. This is suggested by RomDasha.


 !!!! https://www.lingolia.com/

A little site with useful basic courses of 5 languages with good design.


https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Subject:Languages

Books are mostly incomplete and in lack of update, but some are nearly completed or completed, not bad.


https://ikindalikelanguages.com/

Introductions to languages.

Speaking


 !!!! https://forvo.com/

Dictionary of pronunciation.

Write a review


 !!!! https://youglish.com/

Pronunciation from videos.


 !! https://speechling.com/

Submit the recording and wait for the response. Supported languages are not many.

Write a review


 !! https://ivypanda.com/tongue-twisters

Try not to hurt yourself when practising.

It covers an older site and has improved a lot. There's no copyright affair involved because such a list is not a “creative work”.

You may want to ask if this page is protected by copyright. All my comments are protected, the list of links like the one in that brief version is not.

Flashcard


 !!!! https://apps.ankiweb.net/

Offline flashcard platform. You can find its manual at “Docs” on the website. Content can be rendered in HTML and CSS. There are also many powerful add-ons for it. It is open-source.

Its community has many shared decks, but this is not mentioned at the home page. Some language-learning decks are picked out by me.

If you have vocabulary lists in forms other than TSV, you can try PyGlossary or some command line tools to convert them.

Unfortunately, not free on iOS.

Related add-on wiki page. Some are picked out by me.

You can set up your own server for synchronization with djankiserv or anki-sync-server

Good open-source browser add-ons for Chromium or Chrome include:

If you want to batch rename files, there is a program to do it and it is open-source.

There is an infamous issue of it: if you add or delete fields in a note type, you have to upload all your data when syncronising.

If you are still confused, go to communities about Anki and find a solution. Expect that Bazel it utilises to cause troubles.


https://github.com/TBS1996/speki

Flashcards in command line. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/tema6120/ForgetMeNot

Flashcard program for Android. More advanced than AnkiDroid in many aspects, including necessary instructions. You can even set intervals for the spaced repetition. It is open-source.

Write a review


 !! https://github.com/rh-id/a-flash-deck

Flashcards with notification on Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://mnemosyne-proj.org/

If you want a simple alternative to Anki, try this one. It is open-source.


https://tadeas.dev/twsr/

Flashcard for Tiddly Wiki. It is open-source.

Danmaku


https://github.com/luyuhuang/DWords2

Shoot entries on the screen. It is open-source.

Vocabulary


 !!!! https://context.reverso.net/translation/

Among its products, the mobile version of Context seems to be the most helpful: learn and practise new words with example sentences.


 !!!! https://babadum.com/

It's pretty good for educating young polyglots.

Write a review


 !!!! https://github.com/tkrajina/10000sentences

Sentences from Tatoeba to practice. It is aesthetically same with Anki (I mean copy-paste). It is open-source.


 !!!! https://www.clozemaster.com/

Learn with cloze. It is effective, but sometimes it is just repeating the same point in different questions. Also, synonyms are not supported.

Write a review


 !! https://www.languageguide.org/

Some basic vocabulary.


 !! https://babadada.com/

Visual dictionary. No grammatical genders or pronunciation, suitable for reviewing.

A lot of languages has not been completed yet, without any notice. Also, look out for polyseme mistakes.

Write a review


https://trielingual.com/

See the related phrases of a word. It is open-source.


https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Swadesh_lists

Swadesh lists are basic vocabulary, initially for linguistic use. But it can be the starting point of vocabulary building for language learners as well.


 !! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists

Frequency lists. Make use of it with programs that help to memorise, such as Anki.

If you seriously want to learn a language, and there are no ready-made free flashcards reaching the native level, and you don't want to spend money, this may be the most effective way to memorise words.


 !! https://github.com/frekwencja/most-common-words-multilingual

Word frequency of top 5000 words.

Etymology


https://etymologeek.com/

Etymology in European languages.


https://sourceforge.net/projects/scrabble/

Scrabble with downloadable dictionaries. It is open-source.


https://gottcode.org/tanglet/

Boggle. It is open-source.


https://github.com/lexica/lexica

Game of finding words on Android. It is open-source.


https://billthefarmer.github.io/gurgle/

A word game for Android. It is open-source.

Test


https://lingua.com/

A few materials for beginners. Better treat it as your proficiency tests instead of learning materials because it's not much.

Write a review


 !! https://www.transparent.com/language-resources/tests.html

Test your proficiency.

There is only one set of test for each language. Don't search the meanings of the words you don't know if you want to take this test again later.


 !! https://www.arealme.com/vocabulary-size-test/en/

For testing your vocabulary size.

There is only one set of test for each language. Don't search the meanings of the words you don't know if you want to take this test again later.


 !! https://www.ezglot.com/vocabulary-test.php

Test your vocabulary size. It's faster and maybe not so accurate. The result is at an inconspicuous corner.

Reader


 !! https://mupdf.com/

Lightweight PDF Reader for desktops. It is open-source.

Type “man mupdf” in command line to see its shortcuts.


 !! https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/

Reader for Windows. Dark mode and Annotation are available. It is open-source.


 !! https://www.libreoffice.org/

Editor for many document formats. It is open-source.


 !! https://johnfactotum.github.io/foliate/

Reader for Linux with features like layout and online translation. It is open-source.


 !! https://librera.mobi/

Reader for Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://koreader.rocks/

Reader with a simple user interface for Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://nomacs.org/

Image viewer. It is open-source.


 !! https://memex.garden/

Webpage manager, with functions like page annotation. It is open-source.


 !! https://quiterss.org/

RSS feeder for desktop. No pre-installed mainstream media. It is open-source.

If you don't know what RSS is, you can read this article.


 !! https://gitlab.com/spacecowboy/Feeder

RSS feeder for Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://www.kiwix.org/

Read Wikipedia and some other sites offline. It is open-source.

Reading Helper


 !! https://vocabhunter.github.io/

Find unfamiliar words in a document. Great for getting familiar with all words in a document before reading. Better to disable the filter. Java is required. It is open-source.

For Chinese, Japanese, Lao, Thai, Vietnamese and some other languages, word segmentation is required.


 !! https://comfortreader.rhizomaticdesign.net/

Streaming reader for Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/hisakaz0/AutoScrolling

Autoscrolling for Firefox. Good for practising reading speed. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/jpablobr/simple-auto-scroll

Autoscrolling for Chrome. Good for practising reading speed.


 !! https://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_treestyletab.html.en

Arrange browser tabs in hierarchy. It is open source.


 !! https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

Save the web page as a single file.

There is also a SingleFileZ, which can compress pages.


https://github.com/Robbendebiene/Gesturefy

Gestures for Firefox. It is open-source.


https://github.com/FreeLanguageTools/vocabsieve

Analyse the sentence, find the vocabulary and create Anki flashcards. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/jeffkowalski/gritz

Reading speed trainer. Perl and GTK are required. It is open-source.

To open it, just run “gritz.pl”.

For Chinese, Japanese, Lao, Thai, Vietnamese and some other languages, word segmentation is required.

You can also modify the source code (don't execute the file, but open it with a file editor), like these:

  • $font: font name and size.
  • $span_black_open: colors of black characters.
  • $span_red_open: colors of red characters.

p.s. Colors are “web colors”. You can find a “color picker” to get the hex values of a color.

  • $wpm = 200: default reading speed (words per minute).
  • button_slower: WPM increment per click.
  • button_faster: WPM decrement per click.

Maybe when I have free time, I can try converting it into Python and do some modification: add shortcuts, create a user interface with BeeWare, add word segmentation support.


 !! https://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page

Literature in public domain. They can be downloaded.


https://www.gutenberg.org/

The largest collections of books in the public domain, mostly in English, though.

There is a book catalogue website with ever-changing domain names: LibGen, which contains a wider range of books. Make sure you don't see any strange link there. It is also available on Android.


 !! https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html

List of book collections. Many links are available in “https” now, but appear as “http” on this page.

Writing


https://owl.excelsior.edu/

It is not for learning languages, but for how to write and read. Its work is under a public license.

It is teaching about English, so something does not apply to some other languages.


https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/purdue_owl.html

Another online writing lab.


https://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/

Tool for writing stuff. It is open-source.


 !!!! https://www.wiktionary.org/

Practical, no need to switch dictionaries, translations in many languages are shown together.


 !!!! https://www.wordreference.com/

It is really completed.


 !!!! https://www.linguee.com/

It is completed, with example sentences of high quality. You can even find uncommon words with meanings of common words.


 !!!! https://bab.la/

It is completed for several languages.


 !!!! https://iate.europa.eu/

Terminology dictionary of European Union. That is to say, what you search should be a term.


 !! https://glosbe.com/

It supports a lot of languages, citing results from several corpora. It is somehow messy and in many cases inaccurate, but if the dictionaries listed above have no result about a word, this one may help.


 !!!! http://goldendict.org/

It supports several dictionaries in the free version, and also Lingoes in the paid Android version. No one would want to pay after knowing a link below. It is open-source.

You can search the word by selecting it and listen to Forvo pronunciation. You can also add dictionary websites.


 !!!! https://github.com/pnlpal/dictionaries

Browser add-on with clear results and can export to Anki decks. It is open-source.


https://aarddict.org/

Different from other advocates for donating to Ukraine, they have an offline dictionary. It is open-source.

This service has been having the background of political activism (pro-Ukraine).


https://github.com/rdoeffinger/Dictionary

Offline Wiktionary with custom dictionary support on Android. Its search results are easy to read for robots like you. It is open-source.

Translator


 !! https://crow-translate.github.io/

Translator with multiple engine support. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/FilipePS/Traduzir-paginas-web

Webpage translation for Firefox. It is open-source.


 !! https://simple-translate.sienori.com/

Browser add-on for Google Translate with detailed information. It is open-source.


https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/

Command-line translator from different sources. It is open-source.


https://www.apertium.org/

It is open-source.

A video about it.


https://www.argosopentech.com/

It is open-source.

Conjugation


 !!!! https://cooljugator.com/

Conjugation and some declension.


 !!!! https://www.verbix.com/

Conjugation.

Gender


 !! http://www.passion4teq.com/apps/

Apps for practising genders in 4 languages. You can also estimate how long you can practice until your battery goes empty.

Number


https://codeberg.org/GrimPixel/Numeration

Program to practise reading numbers. It is open-source.

In progress. It can see major progresses during school holidays. Introduction: Language/Multiple-languages/Vocabulary/Numeration-Tutorial.

Write a review


 !! https://www.languagesandnumbers.com/numbering-systems/

Rules of writing numbers, more concise than Wikipedia's entries.

Grammar Checker


https://languagetool.org/

It supports several languages, but works well on the few. It is open-source.

A video about the rule editor.

Audio Player


 !! https://audacious-media-player.org/

Lightweight audio player for desktops. It is open-source.


 !! https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/

Music player with many features. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/enricocid/Music-Player-GO

Lightweight audio player for Android with comfortable UI design. It is open-source.


 !!!! https://www.listeningpractice.org/

To practice listening. Voices are from volunteers and their qualities vary. It also has conjugation exercises. Its work is under public licenses.

If your browser doesn't play the audio automatically, then you need to grant the website the autoplay permission (next to the URL in Firefox).


 !! https://globalstorybooks.net/

Stories in many languages translated from African Storybook. Its work is under a public license.


 !! https://www.easy-languages.org/

Street interview videos with embedded subtitles. Real and fun.

The first time I watch a video, I was busy picking up the unknown words; the second time, I understood the sentences; the third time, I got an impression what kind of person the interviewee is.


 !! https://librivox.org/

Books read by volunteers. Its work is under public licenses.


 !! https://lyricstraining.com/

Listen to songs and fill in the blanks of lyrics.


 !! https://www.captionpop.com/

Watch videos and learn with subtitles.


 !! https://rhinospike.com/

Listen to recordings.


 !! https://audio-lingua.eu/

Listening materials with CEFRL levels. Its work is under public licenses.

It doesn't have transcripts, so speech-recognition is required.

Audio Tool


 !! https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity

For audio edit, as well as training your pronunciation by comparing your own voice with the recording you were imitating. Fork of Audacity without potential privacy violation. It is open-source.


 !! https://obsproject.com/

When you are playing games in the languages you are learning, it is often hard to focus on the voices and subtitles without failing your goals in the games. You can solve this problem by recording your gameplay with this program. It is open-source.


https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

With this one, you can say you are “studying” pronunciation.

A little tutorial and a big playlist of various videos.

Text-to-Speech

If you don't know how to get the voices on Windows, you can see Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/How-to-use-SR-and-TTS-on-Windows.


 !! https://github.com/ideasman42/nerd-dictation

TTS for Linux. It is open-source.


 !!!! https://www.cwu.edu/central-access/reader

A TTS program. It is open-source.


 !!!! http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm

A TTS program.


 !!!! https://github.com/Danesprite/tts-util-app

Text-to-Speech for Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://readaloud.app/

Browser add-on. It is open-source.

Speech Recognition


 !!!! https://www.speechtexter.com/

Turn audio into texts, powered by Google.


 !!!! https://speech-to-text-demo.ng.bluemix.net/

Turn audio into texts, powered by IBM Watson.

Example Sentence


 !!!! https://tatoeba.org/

Example sentences in many languages. Its work is under public licenses.

Don't forget to try searching in both directions. You can not only see the meaning of a sentence, but also try to translate a sentence into the language you are learning and see how you did.

If you want to translate, please translate sentences with audio first, because the translations may appear on sites which provide translations of audio.


 !! https://deskell.sketchengine.co.uk/run.cgi/skell

Sketch from a large of text corpus.

Parallel Text


 !!!! https://weblate.org/

Website for localisation. You can easily find parallel texts. It is open-source.


 !! http://sublearning.com/

Subtitles in parallel. Sometimes the selected lines don't match because the sentences are not complete. Sometimes there are mistakes in subtitles.


https://www.manualslib.com/

Manuals. Some of them are in multiple languages. You can also find their German, Spanish, French domains at the bottom of the page.

Parse Tree


 !! https://sourceforge.net/projects/treeform/

A tool to draw parse trees and have a better understanding of sentence structures. It is open-source.

A video about it.


 !! https://ltc.sourceforge.io/

A different one to draw parse trees. It is open-source.

Text Memorization


 !! https://github.com/zg/text-memorize

For memorizing text.

For Chinese, Japanese, Lao, Thai, Vietnamese and some other languages, word segmentation is required.

Phrasebook


 !!!! https://www.funeasylearn.com/

It provides apps for both phrase and vocabulary.


 !! https://www.loecsen.com/

It supports many languages, and it is detailed.

This service has been having the background of political activism (pro-Ukraine).


 !! https://www.50languages.com/

Actually a few more than 50 languages. You can also have a test there.

World Clock


 !! https://www.timeanddate.com/

It has not only the world clock for every city, but also many other features, such as calendars with festivals of most countries.

Weather


 !! https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in

Weather program in command line. It is open-source.


 !! https://codeberg.org/Lacerte/clima

Weather program for Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://weather.pd-dev.xyz/

Weather program with Android version. It is open-source.


 !! https://www.ventusky.com/

A lot of things about meteorology.


 !! https://earth.nullschool.net/

Wind, weather, ocean conditions.


 !! https://waqi.info/

Air condition around the world.

Community


 !! https://www.italki.com/

The most popular language learning community by now. It also pushes helpful articles written by teachers.


 !! https://www.tolearnfree.com/free-educational-sites.php

The design of the webpages is old-fashioned, but it has a lot of content, including little tests.

Its French version has something more.


 !! https://polyglotclub.com/

There are some rare features of it, such as Wiki lessons, Events. It adopts ISO 639-3, almost every language is included here.


https://hinative.com/

Ask and answer with people around the world.

In some channels, questions are too many, answer rates are low. Try asking at Polyglot Club.

Ask in parallel text in case the respondent doesn't understand your formulation.


https://stackexchange.com/sites#culturerecreation

One of the most popular Q&A site.

Language Exchange


 !! https://conversationexchange.com/

Find language exchange partners online.


 !! https://www.lingbe.com/

Talking with people.


 !! https://mylanguageexchange.com/

Free users can be contacted by those who have paid. Since they have paid, they are more likely to be serious learners.


 !! https://cryptpad.fr/

Cloud office suit. Zero knowledge. It is open-source.

It's also great for language partners to do something together.


https://blogs.transparent.com/

There are periodically good contents being presented.


https://www.thoughtco.com/languages-4133094

Languages are fewer than Transparent's, and so do the update frequency. But its quality is still high.


https://blog.feedspot.com/culture_blogs/

Blogs about cultures. There are also magazines.

Lyrics


 !! https://www.musixmatch.com/

Lyrics and their translations.


 !! https://lyricstranslate.com/

Lyrics and their translations.

This service has been having the background of political activism (pro-Ukraine).

Subtitle


 !! https://www.opensubtitles.org/

One of the most popular subtitle sites. Subtitles in European languages are easier to find.

Write a review


 !! https://subscene.com/

One of the most popular subtitle sites. Subtitles in English, Arabic, Persian, Indonesian are easier to find.


 !! https://getcaption.co/

For downloading subtitles on desktop. You can add websites on your own. It is open-source.w


 !! https://github.com/FunkyMuse/SubHub

For downloading subtitles on Android. It is open-source.


 !! https://bonigarcia.github.io/dualsub/index.html

It can help to merge two subtitles. It may crash at the second time. It is open-source.


 !! https://www.smplayer.info/

This player can display two subtitles. It is open-source.

What a good name of this program.


 !! http://subs2srs.sourceforge.net/

Turn subtitles into flashcards. It is open-source.

A video about it.

News


 !! http://www.abyznewslinks.com/

Links to news websites.

Some TV have shows for free, some of which even with subtitles.


 !! https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean / https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

Paywall bypasser for Chromium/Chrome, Firefox and other browsers. It is open-source.


https://liveuamap.com/

Live map with news from social media.

Radio & Podcast


 !! https://www.radio-browser.info/

A list of internet radio stations. You can find clients in “Apps”, some of which are open-source.

I prefer two stations: Public Domain Classical, Public Domain Jazz. Pleasing names.


 !! https://www.listennotes.com/

Search Engine of podcasts.


 !! https://gpodder.github.io/

Podcast player for desktop. It is open-source.


https://github.com/xgi/castero

Podcast client in command line. It is open-source.


 !! https://antennapod.org/

Podcast player with search engine for Android. It is open-source.

Live & Video


 !! https://mpv.io/

Video player with fast response. It is open-source.


 !! https://livetvcentral.com/

The most complete list of worldwide online TV channels.

Many links are dead, but the live stream is still available somewhere else in many of these sites.


 !! https://www.downthemall.org/

Link and image downloader. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Video downloader in command line. It is open-source.


https://similarchannels.com/

It can find similar YouTube channels.

Language Information


https://www.omniglot.com/

It provides information about basic knowledge of many languages. Many “Alphabet and Pronunciation” lessons on this site are from there.

Write a review


https://glottolog.org/

Information of languages of the world. Not only languages, but also many varieties. It is open-source. Its work is under a public license.


https://www.scriptsource.org/

Information of scripts. Its work is under a public license.


https://www.muturzikin.com/countries.htm

Linguistic maps.


https://lingvo.info/

General knowledge about European languages.


https://iso639-3.sil.org/

Codes for every language and is still being updated. You can find the whole table.

General Knowledge


https://www.britannica.com/

A comprehensive encyclopedia.

Educational Resources


https://libguides.humboldt.edu/openedu/

Educational resources including geography, history and sociology. When you have learned such subjects, you will have insights on a culture or civilisation.

Map


 !! https://www.openstreetmap.org/

Another map site. You can even download them. It is open-source.

There is a video about its modification with Inkscape.


 !! https://marble.kde.org/

Alternative to Google Earth. It is open-source.


 !! https://organicmaps.app/

Offline maps for mobile with OpenStreetMap data. It is open-source.


 !! https://ontheworldmap.com/

Downloadable maps. It even includes cities. I don't expect them to be up-to-date.

Culture & Travel


https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/

Introductions to cultures.


https://www.wikivoyage.org/

Introduction of the city and many details of countries. It is open-source.

The most important page for travellers is this.


https://www.everyculture.com/

Its information is old. There are details of peoples and countries.


https://www.civilopedia.net/

Encyclopedia for Sid Meier's Civilization VI. It even has multiple languages, so it's great for reading as well.


https://culturalatlas.sbs.com.au/

It is about countries and in progress.


https://www.commisceo-global.com/country-guides/

It is mainly about some details about manners.


https://guide.culturecrossing.net/index.php

It is mainly about some details about manners.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_subcultures

Subcultures, modern things.


https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/

Cultural heritages. There is also an interactive map.


https://ich.unesco.org/en/lists/

Intangible cultural heritages.


https://www.tripadvisor.com/

Guide of travelling cities.

This service has been having the background of political activism (pro-Ukraine).


https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/

A formal publication of basic information about countries.


https://worldcultures.webs.com/

Links to other sites about cultures.

History


https://www.worldhistory.org/

An encyclopedia. Articles, images, videos, 3D images, podcasts and more.


http://www.fsmitha.com/

Detailed articles about history.


https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.timleg.historytimeline

An app about major events of history.


https://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

Basic knowledge of the world history. Good for beginners. Looks old-fashioned, but it is not bad if you get used to it.


https://histography.io/

Historical events in dots.


https://omniatlas.com/

It shows you some old news with detailed maps.


https://www.timemaps.com/

Maps of history.


https://worldhist.org/

Map of every year. Names of nations can be searched.


https://www.worldhistorymaps.info/

Historical maps. Its works are under a public license.


https://www.oldmapsonline.org/

Old maps around the world.

The site has trouble with the mobile site. You need to set to view the desktop site on mobile.


https://plato.stanford.edu/index.html

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.


https://iep.utm.edu/

University of Tennessee at Martin's Encyclopedia of Philosophy.


https://www.philosophybasics.com/

The basics of philosophy, “by a layman for the layman”.


https://simplyphilosophy.org/

Articles about different aspects of philosophy.


http://philosophypages.com/

Resources about philosophy. Its work is under a public license.


https://www.learnreligions.com/

Articles about religions.


https://slife.org/

An interfaith community with introductions to spiritual topics.


https://www.holybooks.com/

Downloadable books about religions.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religions_and_spiritual_traditions

List of religions and spiritual traditions.


https://virtualreligion.net/

Resources about religions.

Geography


https://www.worldatlas.com/

Short articles.


 !! http://worldmapquiz.qbisstudio.com/index.html

An app for practising world map in several languages. Dependencies are not all included. The form of address in Chinese version is a mixture of PRC's and ROC's, which is not good. For Chinese names of countries, there is a list: Language/Mandarin-chinese/Vocabulary/Countries-and-Nationalities.


 !! https://www.geoguessr.com/seterra/

Game of geography, online or with apps.


https://www.flagid.org/

Flag identifier.


https://www.geoguessr.com/free

Quiz of guessing the location from street view.


https://www.geographynow.com/

Videos about world geography. You can expect political correctness.

Music


 !! https://folkcloud.com/

Information about folk music.


 !! https://www.chosic.com/

Many tools about music, including similar song finder.


 !! https://www.soundhound.com/

Recognize music with recording or your hum. It has some advantages over Shazam.


 !! https://www.shazam.com/

Recognize music with recording. It has some advantages over Soundhound.

Art


 !! https://www.wikiart.org/

All kinds of artwork around the world.

This service has been having the background of political activism (pro-Ukraine).

Dance


 !! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic,_regional,_and_folk_dances_by_origin

Dances by origin. You can search for them on video sites.


https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/86/world-cuisine/

A bit of recipes around the world.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cuisines

List of cuisines.

Sport


http://www.traditionalsports.org/

Introduction to traditional sports.

Tabletop Game


 !! https://codeberg.org/GrimPixel/Tabletop

Mod of tabletop equipment for Minetest. It is open-source.

Download it and put it in its "mod" folder, then you can create a world, select this modpack and have fun.


 !! https://www.gnu.org/software/xboard/

Traditional board games. Its user interface is more cruel than AI opponents. It is open-source.

There are pre-installed engines, but they are somehow old. The most versatile engine is Fairy Stockfish.

Cute Chess looks good, but Xiangqi and Janggi are missing.


https://www.pychess.org/

Multiplayer platform for playing chess variants.

Folk Costume


 !! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_costume

List of folk costume.

Folktale


https://fairytalez.com/

Some tales.


https://www.worldoftales.com/

Some tale books.

Festival


 !! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_festivals_by_country

Not complete, but still good.


https://www.world-festivals.net/

It includes more countries than the one above. I wonder if it is so difficult to gather information about festivals.

Martial Art


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_martial_arts

List of martial arts.


https://blackbeltwiki.com/

Introduction to many martial arts.

Name


 !! https://www.behindthename.com/

Find the meanings of a given name.

Astronomy


https://stellarium.org/

You can see the sky in different locations and times. There are starlores in different cultures. Some even have constellation art.

Living Condition


https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

Prices from the world. Sometimes inaccurate.


https://www.globalproductprices.com/

The prices of products in different regions. Its work is under a public license.


https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/

The prices of energy in different regions. Its work is under a public license.

Economy


https://www.exchange-rates.org/

Exchange rates.


https://commodity.com/

Basic understanding of trading around the world.

Vehicle


https://www.globalcarsbrands.com/

Automobile brands around the world.

Statistics


https://www.statista.com/

All kinds of statistical data. Some are free.


https://ourworldindata.org/

It has detailed explanation on its data.

Train


https://www.seat61.com/

Information about train travels.

Prepaid SIM Card


https://prepaid-data-sim-card.fandom.com/wiki/Prepaid_SIM_with_data

Details about SIM cards. Its work is under a public license.

License Plate


 !! http://www.worldlicenseplates.com/

Take a look if you are interested. It's completed.

National Anthem


 !! https://www.nationalanthems.info/

National anthems with lyrics. Its work is under a public license.

Trivia Quiz


https://www.jetpunk.com/

Trivia quizzes of the world. It is available in multiple languages.

Model


https://castle-engine.io/view3dscene.php

3D model viewer with support of walking and flying. It is open-source.


https://sketchfab.com/

3D models, some of which are under public licenses. Make sure your computer's memory is large enough to view them.

You can also use 3D printers to print them if you like.

Character


 !! https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gucharmap

Character map for Linux and macOS. It is open-source.


 !! https://leun4m.github.io/symbsearch/

Character search for Windows. It is open-source.


 !! https://github.com/Ryosuke839/UnicodePad

Character search for Android. It is open-source.

It is also available on F-droid.

Font


 !! https://www.google.com/get/noto/

It presents a lot of fonts in one art style. It is open-source.


 !! https://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html

No one covers more of the Unicode map than GNU Unifont. It is open-source.

Its function is limited, such as bad support for South and Southeast Asian characters.


 !! https://www.fontspace.com/

You can go to its “stuff” and search by Unicode characters.

Optical Character Recognition


https://github.com/manisandro/gImageReader

It recognizes characters on the screen with Tesseract. It is open-source.

A video about training.


https://dynobo.github.io/normcap/

Capture screen and recognize the characters with Tesseract. It is open-source.


 !! https://tegaki.github.io/

Handwriting recognition for Chinese and Japanese. You can download new models and load them. It is open-source.


https://github.com/SubhamTyagi/android-ocr

It uses Tesseract 4 data on Android. It is open-source.

Language Identifier


 !! http://www.polyglot3000.com/

It identifies languages.

Resource Links

Unlike this page, those are for some specific languages, and I am not responsible for their qualities.


https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Free_media_resources

Free media resources.


https://www.lexilogos.com/english/index.htm

This one is in a great quantity.

This service has been having the background of political activism (pro-Ukraine).


https://www.ats-group.net/language-resources.html

This service has many languages.


http://lexicity.com/

This one focuses on ancient languages.


http://www.meta-share.org/

Repository for language researching.

Internet Archive


https://archive.org/

Archive of the Internet since 1996 and other things. Really cool!

Virtual Private Network and others


 !! mailto:get@psiphon3.com

Those who are hindered from accessing the world Internet, send an e-mail to it.

Official site: https://psiphon3.com/en/index.html


 !! https://www.torproject.org/

For visiting Project Gutenburg and other sites, if some books are still not in public domain in your country. It is open-source.

It won't lead you to the dark web, if you don't know any such address.


 !! https://protonvpn.com/

It doesn't allow torrenting on the free plan, but there's no volume limit.


 !! https://windscribe.com/

They provide 10GB each month with high speed and multiple locations for free. Great for “immersive language learning”.

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