Here is a ton of FREE online language resources to help with your learning Nepali: courses, ebooks, audio books, songs, dictionaries, audio files, videos, podcasts, YouTube channels, alphabet lessons, grammar lessons, cheat sheets, flashcards, typing tutors, keyboards, games, quizzes, study aids, radio, tv, newspapers, spoken Nepali, written Nepali…and more.
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Free online Nepali courses
- FSI (Foreign Services Institute) Nepali Basic Course (audio only)
- US Peace Corps: Learning Nepali – PreService Training (no audio)
- Learn Nepali – with both Devanagari script and transliteration (but no audio)
- NepalGo – with Devanagari script and transliteration (but no audio)
- Nepali Lessons – with Devanagari script and transliteration (but no audio)
- Learn101 – Learn Nepali – with Devanagari script, transliteration and audio!
- Nepali: A Beginner’s Primer – with script and audio, but not free.
- iLoveLanguages.org (Devanagari script, transliteration and audio)
Free Nepali lessons from pay sites
Google Books
English-Nepali Nepali-English Dictionaries
Nepali Language YouTube Channels
- Peace Corps Nepal
- Learn Nepali with Barsha (Barsha Basnet)
- Stanford’s informal Nepali Language Class (Dilli Paudel)
- Learn with Sharad (Sharad Dhakal)
Misc Nepali Language Videos
- TED videos (in Nepali): 40+ with transcripts in both English and Nepali
- CultureTalk Nepal: Videos by Topic by LangMedia
- Full movies in Nepali on YouTube
Online Nepali Radio and TV Stations
- News 24 – Kathmandu
- Kantipur Television KTV (in English)
- Sagarmatha TV
- Nepal Television (live stream)
- Kantipur TV
- Avenues TV Nepal
- TV Nepali (comedy shows)
- TV Nepal Network
- Mountain TV
- TV Today Nepal
- Bright Nepali TV – Kathmandu
- Nepali TV – Australia
- Nepali Smile TV (comedy shows)
- Krishi TV Nepal (agriculture)
- Himalaya TV
- Canada Nepal
Online Nepali Audio
- BBC News Nepali – stories, video & audio
- SBS (Australia) Nepali Podcast
- Nepali Podcasts – Mirmee Foundation – Pokhara, Nepal
- Miliijuli Nepali
- TuneIn.com – Nepal: radio, podcasts, shows, episodes
Nepali Music Sites
Nepali Books
- OLE Nepal’s E-Pustakalaya – Free and Open Digital Library
Typing in Nepali
- Type in Nepali (online)
- Nepali Keyboard – नेपाली किबोर्ड – (online with keyboard)
- Type Nepali – type in Romanized and it will be converted
- Free-Online-Writing.com – (online with keyboard)
Nepali Fonts
- Nepalifonts.net
- 15 fonts from EasyNepaliTyping.com
- 600+ fonts from WikiNepali.com
- 28 fonts from Nepali.info
Online Language Exchange for Learning Nepali
- Conversation Exchange – You can have three types of language exchange: Face to face conversation, correspondence (pen-pal), text and voice chat.
- HelloTalk – A language exchange group, HelloTalk also has free iOS and Android apps.
- italki.com – Is a tutoring website (where you can pay for a teacher) but there is a ‘Find a Language Partner’ page which is free.
- The MIXXER – A language exchange community for everyone.
Misc Nepali Language Resources
- Rhinospike: Foreign Language Audio on Demand – RhinoSpike is a language learning tool that connects you with native speakers to exchange foreign language audio files. Get foreign language text read aloud for you by a native speaker.
- Wikipedia.com: Nepali language
- Wikivoyage.com: Nepali phrasebook
- Nepalilanguage.org – Promoting the Nepali language
- Nepali Spell Checker
- Type in Nepali (for those without a Nepali keyboard installed)
- Nepali Baby Names: 3301 Unique Nepali Names with their Meanings
SRS (Flashcards) Apps
- Anki – A FREE friendly, intelligent spaced learning system. For Windows, Mac and Linux.
- Pauker – Flash Card Learning – Uses a combination of ultra-shortterm, shortterm, and longterm memory. You can use it to learn all the things efficiently you never want to forget, like vocabulary, capitals, important dates, etc. For Windows, Mac, Linux and more.
- The Mnemosyne Project – A sophisticated flash-card tool to optimize your learning process, as well as a research project into the nature of long-term memory. For Windows, Mac and Linux.
SRS (Flashcards) Resources
- Anki decks – User-made Anki flashcard decks to study Nepali
- Quizlet flashcards – User made Quizlet flashcards to use online
What other resources have you used to learn/improve your Nepali? How can we help you with your Nepali language learning? Are there other resources you need? Would you like us to expand on any of the topics above? Let us know here.
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