Learning Slovene is not easy at all, and finding ressources to learn Slovene can be even more challenging! So here is a list of ressources that might prove useful.

Online tools

  • www.slonline.si is the perfect website to learn lots of basic words.
  • PONS is a Slovene-English/French online dictionnary. You can save your favorite words. They also have a good mobile app.
  • Besana is a great tool to get the correct declension of a word, although the number of searches is limited.
  • Online course on Glossika with different pricing plans.

Other tools that I haven’t tried yet:

Books

On this website you can download several books. Among them, Colloquial Slovene - A complete language course has helped me a lot. Unfortunately, I’ve been unable to find the corresponding audio files.

I also bought a book from Assimil, which turned out to be a good investment.

Newspapers

Total Slovenia News and Časoris (a newspaper for children) propose every week a short article for children written in English and Slovenian.

Rtvslo has a portal where news are presented with simple sentences and words (text+audio).

TV

The “otroški portal” (kids’ portal) of the RTVSlo is good place to start: it has lots of short videos, including videos in slovene with slovene subtitles. You need to create an account to access the videos. You have the choice between videos for toddlers and more advanced videos. Among videos with subtitles:

  • Aktivatorji was ok-ish in terms of vocabulary.
  • Srečo Kuha Cmok is a culinary show for kids.
  • čebelice is a mix of video, podcast and storytelling. It’s for kids, but very relaxing.

On the regular portal of RTVSlo you can also watch videos, but not all of them are with subtitles. MAME and Nova Dvajseta are two slovene series with subtitles.

Radio and podcasts

YouTube Channels

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