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This wiki is intended to provide a list of resources for people hoping to learn a language using comprehensible input.

For a good summary of the comprehensible input based method and how it works, visit dreamingspanish.com/method.

Comprehensible input is the key element for language acquisition: we acquire language when we understand what we hear or read a natural communicative context (A situation like "Teacher holding a pen and asks student what it is" is not communicative). The concept of Comprehensible Input comes from Comprehension-Hypothesis of Stephen Krashen in the field Second Language Acquisition^[1]. But it's not invented by Krashen, as he admitted it^[2]. Sometimes, comprehensible input is missunderstood as a method. In fact, it's a necessary, if not sufficient, element to acquire language.

Comprehensible input based language learning is characterized by listening to or reading content in the target language, at or slightly above the level where the learner can understand everything that is being said.^[3] Ideally, no use of the learner's native language is used or needed. Visual cues, such as pictures or hand gestures, assist the learner in connecting words with their meanings. The focus of the method is on input (listening, reading) rather than output (speaking, writing). Speaking practice can come after the learner is fairly comfortable with understanding what they hear. Likewise for practicing writing after becoming comfortable with reading.

As opposed to more traditional language learning methods (for example grammar study, rote memorization, etc.), comprehensible input closely resembles the natural language learning of children in their native language, and thus may be more effective and efficient for acquiring new languages. It is certainly easier and more fun than most other methods, as the learner is engaging with content that they almost completely understand already.

This is a wiki, so if you feel like it, you have the power to improve the website in various ways.

You can add a page for a new language if it doesn't exist here yet (use the input box on this page so that the correct format is preloaded for you).
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If you want to add links to a language that you see on this page (Main Page), do it on the language's page, not here. The Main Page will automatically display the links from the language page (it may take up to five minutes for the Main Page to catch up).

Just getting started in a language?

Look for the

icon next to a link. That means it starts teaching from zero. Not all such beginner links have been labeled with the icon, so you might find more starter resources if you look around.

So, go ahead, browse the site, and enjoy!

To add a new language, type the name of the language below and press Add New Language.

Key:

	- Videos	- Audio
	- Text	- App
- Starts from absolute beginner

Multiple Languages

Easy Languages

Ilya Frank's Reading Method

Language Crush Conversations

American Sign Language

Bill Vicars LifePrint

Signing Comprehensibly

Arabic (Standard)

Arabic comprehensible
Arabic for Ummah
Learn Arabic With Al Jazeera
Learn Arabic with Khasu (especially older videos, his newer videos are less comprehensible input)

Kids videos

Original in Arabic

Adam Wa Mishmish
Imam Bukhari Series (Note: strong religious content)
Captain Khalfan (النقيب خلفان)

Dubbed

Armenian

Vikidia

Basque

Vikidia

Biblical Greek

Alpha with Angela

Biblical Greek Mini-Stories

Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata

Ancient Greek in Action

Found in Antiquity: Ancient Greek

Scripturial

Biblical Hebrew

Biblical Hebrew/Library

Aleph with Beth

Bulgarian

Say it in Bulgarian

Cantonese

Cantonese/Library

Comprehensible Cantonese

Manki Cantonese

Catalan

Vikidia

https://www.youtube.com/@catalaalnatural1192

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3txIqEqk7eg&list=PL3-Ggx2VjC14gATHTK3oUbi6TUMWpRHB0&pp=iAQB

https://www.youtube.com/@EasyCatalan

Chinese

Chinese/Library

Acquire Mandarin

ALG Mandarin Online on Magic Ship

Blabla Chinese

Comprehensible Chinese

Comprehensible Mandarin

Diane Neubauer 杜雁子 Chinese learning & teaching

Crazie Laoshi

Du Chinese

Easy Mandarin

每日中文课Free To Learn Chinese

Hit Chinese

Ilya Frank's Reading Method

Immersive Chinese

Jiayun Mandarin

learn from zero

Learn Mandarin in Mandarin with Huimin

Story Learning Chinese with Annie

talkin Chinese redred https://youtube.com/@talkinChinese_redred

Terry Waltz Books

Unconventional Chinese with Keren

You Can Chinese 语感中文

Dong Chinese

Comprehensible Input Chinese (CommonsenseChinese)

Comprehensible Taiwanese Mandarin

Czech

Czech/Library

Easy Czech

Czech by the Nature Method - Ayan Academy

Czech-in (Czech comprehensible input)

Slow Czech

Čeština s Mínou a Týnou

Cukrárna u Josefa

Ábécédé s Michalem

Michalovy barvy

Talk. Learn. Enjoy. Czech with Tereza

What the fact?

justczeching

Danish

Dansk Efter Naturmetoden

Godnathistorier fra Tellerup (Playlist)

Lær dansk online

Easy Danish

Dutch

Janique Vanderstocken

Language tips Library Langedijk

Luister en leer Nederlands

English

English/Library

Acquirable English

Ben's Language Lab

Dreaming English

BITS - English Language Learning: Listen & Read

Comprehensible Input Aus

English Comprehensible Input and Vocabulary Review of Most Commonly Used Words

English Comprehensible Input for ESL Beginners

Easy English Input

Easy Stories in English

English is Easy

Follow the English

English by the Nature Method by Arthur Jensen - Ayan Academy

English by the Nature Method - Revised Edition

Fantasy Audiobook

English Without Fear

Film&Clips Free Movies

Fingtam English

Input English

JM English

Learn English with Benji

Listen and Understand English (Escuchar y Entender Inglés)

Not Your Mother's English (Natural English)

Smile and Learn - English

smile English stories

Story-Listening

Vikidia

English Listening Practice with Dr. Game (Gaming)

Esperanto

Evildea (Youtube)

Learn Esperanto - Direct Method

Pasporto al la tuta mondo

Scivolemo (YouTube)

Kernpunkto (Podcast)

Usone Persone (Podcast)

Finnish

Finnish/Library

Yle Uutiset Selkosuomeksi

French

French/Library

A Slow French podcast: LanguaTalk (with interactive transcripts)

Film&Clips Film Complet

Français Immersion

French Comprehensible Input

French In Action Series

Frenchpresso - Slow, Easy French

French Facile

Ilya Frank's Reading Method

Inner French

Little Talk in Slow French

Smile and Learn - Français

Toward Proficiency by Cécile Lainé

Français Authentique

French mornings with Elisa

Vikidia

Français avec Nelly

Le Français facile avec rfi : news and other content in simplified French

German

German/Library

comprehensible GERMANi - Natürlich deutsch

Language Transfer

Comprehensible German

Comprehensible Input German (Gaming)

Deutsch Direkt

Deutsch lernen mit der DW

Deutch Nach der Methode

Film&Clips Ganzer Film

Flumo

German is not boring

Ilya Frank's Reading Method

Deutsch Entdecker Kanal

Greek

Comprehensible Greek

Helinika - Greek Language, History, and Culture (Greek Input Playlist)

Vikidia

Language Transfer

Hakka

Hakka Studies客家大學堂

Hebrew

Videos

The Hebrew Adventure

Hebrew Comprehensible Input

Piece of Hebrew

Native Content (GuyTV)

Everyday Hebrew Conversations

Books

Books by Phil Ben

Stories in Easy Hebrew: סִפּוּרִים בְּעִבְרִית קַלָּה - Rut Yudovich

A Hebrew Primer - I A Richards

Hebrew Through Pictures - I A Richards

10 Hebrew-English Short Stories- Rut Avni

Reader: Modern Hebrew Prose and Poetry - Ora Band

Hebrew Short Stories: Dual Language Hebrew-English, Interlinear & Parallel Text - Aron Levi

סיפור ועוד סיפור

Other

sefer-li

Hadshon easy Hebrew news

Teach Me Hebrew

Newspaper readers. There are two: Ivrit by Jpost and Yanshuf/Bereshit by HebrewToday.

Podcasts

Hebrew Time

Streetwise Hebrew

Hindi

Comprehensible Hindi

Peppa Pig Hindi

Indonesian

Comprehensible Indonesian

Diva the Series

Italian

Italian/Library

Film&Clips in Italiano

Geronimo Stilton

Ilya Frank's Reading Method

Learn Italian by the Natural Method

Learn Italian with Lucrezia

Leggiamo!

Massimo Polidoro

Ménéstrandise Audiolibri

The Teacher Stefano Show

Simple Italian Podcast

Slow Italian, Fast Learning

Smile and Learn - Italiano

Sonia Ognibene Books

Una Storia ItaliAnna

Vikidia

TG7 LIS With accurate subtitles and LIS

TG7 LIS Sports with accurate subtitles and LIS

La Biblioteca di Alessandria Storia e videogame

Vanilla Magazine è un progetto di divulgazione storica e culturale. Many have subtitles.

Learn Italian with Teacher Stefano Instruction and CI.

Irish

Nuacht Mhall

Japanese

Japanese/Library

Korean

Korean/Library

최수수 Choi Susu

Comprehensible Input Korean

Comprehensible Korean

Didi's Korean Culture Podcast

몰입한국어 Immersion in Korean

Intuit Korean

KIWI-Korean Input With Images

Korean by Tofu

Learn Korean in Korean

Learn Korean with Jadoo

Master Vocabulary (MAVOCA) - Korean

Storytime in Korean

Talk to Me in Korean's Conversations for Learners

TTMIK Stories - requires paid subscription

한국어 con 앵덕

한국어 con 앵덕 for Beginners

Comprehensible Korean Language

몰입한국어 Immersion in Korean

Latin

60 Latin Youtube Channels Organized : Amazing and comprehensive but might be overwhelming to sift through for a brand-new beginner. The channels with stars next to their names are most recommended by the list creator.

ScorpioMartianus

Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata : Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata: Familia Romana is THE beginner textbook for learners seeking comprehensible input. Audio recordings of the entire book by Luke Ranieri are available on YouTube for free.

Found in Antiquity: Latin

Beginner Latin A - Comprehensible Input

Beginner Latin B - Comprehensible Input

Latinitium

Legentibus : An app with lots of meaningful beginner reading material + audio recordings of each. It also has Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata: Familia Romana in text and audio form, albeit missing marginalia and illustrations. 10 USD/month.

Magister Craft

Satura Lanx

Quomodo Dicitur

Learn Latin through Conversations with Caesar - Ayan Academy

Legonium

Toda-lly Comprehensible Latin stories : Beginner stories from a Latin teacher using CI.

Dinosaurs Speak Latin

Novella List - Magister P : Huge list of Latin novellas with sheltered vocabulary. Note that this resource is intended more for teachers than it is for students or self-learners. Also keep in mind that beginner Latin novellas tend to be written by teachers in their spare time, and many contain errors! This shouldn't harm you greatly if you're just starting out and need comprehensible reading material, but it's best not to use these as textbooks, or examples of "proper" or "authentic" Latin, unless you can verify the quality of the text.