Stories, audio, and videos can all help you learn Azerbaijani when you can follow what they mean. That is the idea behind comprehensible input: learning from Azerbaijani you can mostly understand. Azerbaijani written for learners is hard to find, and a reply on Reddit says there are no study guides sorted by level, as there are for many other languages.
These apps and sites give you Azerbaijani at your level, or help you follow the Azerbaijani you pick yourself. For courses, speaking practice, and tutors, see our Azerbaijani app comparison.
Custom Lessons Made for You
Bubblegum
Learn Azerbaijani with a path made just for you. Start with your level, what you like, and why you want to learn. Your path grows as you learn, with new lessons that fit you. Bubblegum also has news and stories, so you can read and listen to a mix of Azerbaijani about music, food, family, or daily life.
Poppy, your AI tutor, writes each lesson for your level, interests, and goals. If a sentence is hard to follow, just ask her to explain the words or the grammar.
The trade-off is that Bubblegum can't help you read or watch Azerbaijani you found yourself. For a web page, a book, or a video you already picked, the tools in Read and Watch Azerbaijani You Choose are the better fit.
- Read and listen to lessons, news, and stories about things you like.
- New lessons fit your level, interests, and goals.
- Regenerative Review™ brings saved words back in new lessons, so you review them by reading instead of using flashcards.
- Ask Poppy for help as you read.
- Lesson audio uses AI voices, not recordings of Azerbaijani speakers.
- You cannot bring in your own books, articles, or videos.
- A new custom lesson costs us real money to make, so you can ask Poppy for a free one, and Bubblegum Pro gives you unlimited custom lessons. The lesson library is free for everyone, because we believe everyone should be able to learn.
- Regenerative Review™
- Teaches the Azerbaijani Alphabet
Mobile
Listen to Free Audiobooks
Danışan Kitab
Danışan Kitab means "Talking Book." It was made for a project of Azerbaijan's Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, and its books are open to everyone. Start with a short folk tale, such as Bilici Baba, and move on to longer stories when you can follow more.
- Free audiobooks in Azerbaijani, read by well-known Azerbaijani actors.
- Folk tales, stories by Azerbaijani and world writers, and school books.
- Listen on the website or on your phone.
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Read and Watch Azerbaijani You Choose
These tools help you learn from Azerbaijani web pages, books, and videos you pick yourself, such as the free school books and films below. They suit learners who know the basics.
Readlang
Readlang added Azerbaijani in 2024. It helps you read Azerbaijani articles, books, and web pages, and it saves the words you look up so you can review them later.
- Tap a word or short phrase to see what it means.
- Ask for a short explanation, in English, of what a phrase means in its sentence.
- Upload your own texts, or read Azerbaijani web pages with its Chrome extension.
- Save new words and review them with flashcards.
- Flashcards
- Doesn't teach the Azerbaijani Alphabet
WebBrowser extension
Language Reactor
Language Reactor adds learning tools to YouTube in Chrome. Many Azerbaijani videos on YouTube, such as the films and talk shows below, have automatic Azerbaijani subtitles, so you can use it with them. It is free to install, with paid extras.
- See Azerbaijani subtitles beside a translation on YouTube.
- Look up words in a pop-up dictionary.
- Pause and replay one line when it goes too fast.
- Doesn't teach the Azerbaijani Alphabet
Browser extension
Free Lessons, Books, Films, and News
A few free sites are made for learners. GLOSS, from the US Defense Language Institute, has 106 free Azerbaijani lessons for reading and listening, sorted by level, from a talk with a taxi driver to news broadcasts. Learners on Reddit have suggested it for its Azerbaijani texts with matching audio. Azerbaijani.edu.az is a free site for foreigners and Azerbaijanis abroad, with reading and listening lessons from A1 to C1. You need an account, and one learner found that some of its lessons are not filled in yet. On YouTube, Learn Azerbaijani with Sevda, which several learners suggest, teaches everyday phrases, and Azerbaijani teachers post short lessons on Learn Azerbaijani Today!.
For reading, Azerbaijan's e-dərslik site has free school books for every grade from 1 to 11, including books for reading outside class. The site is all in Azerbaijani, and a learner on Reddit used it to find books from easy to hard.
For watching, Azərbaycanfilm, the national film studio founded in 1923, posts full Azerbaijani films on YouTube. Learners on Reddit suggest older classics such as Arşın mal alan and O olmasın, bu olsun. İctimai TV, Azerbaijan's public broadcaster, posts full episodes of its series on YouTube, including Əqrəb mövsümü, which several learners recommend. For long talks, Söhbətgah interviews guests about health, history, and relationships.
We found no site that writes the news in easy Azerbaijani. When you can follow news made for Azerbaijani readers, BBC News Azərbaycanca and Azadlıq Radiosu, the Azerbaijani service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, are free to read, and both post videos on YouTube.
Learn Azerbaijani in Your Language
These counts cover menu-language choices, including script variants. The other counts and full lists come from Language Reactor's Chrome Web Store page and Readlang's help forum. Danışan Kitab is in Azerbaijani. Word meanings, lesson explanations, and other platforms may differ.
| App | Supported Display Languages | Full List |
|---|---|---|
| Bubblegum | 74 | Full list
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| Readlang | 1 | Full list |
| Language Reactor | 27 | Full list |
Other Apps We Looked At (7)
- Language PlayerA video player with a library of Azerbaijani YouTube videos, mostly music, with captions and a dictionary.
- LangTurboListen to Azerbaijani podcasts with a transcript that follows the audio and a translation under every line. It is new and growing.
- Lingo7Books in Azerbaijani with an English translation beside every sentence, and versions rewritten in easier Azerbaijani.
- AudiokitabMore than 1,200 books read aloud in Azerbaijani, with many free books.
- Azerbaijani Fairy TalesWell-known fairy tales as cartoons in Azerbaijani, such as The Ugly Duckling and Maya the Bee.
- Bloom LibraryFree picture books for children, with a small shelf in Azerbaijani.
- Glossika, Clozemaster, and MangoCourses and sentence practice with Azerbaijani audio. Some learners use them alongside the reading and listening above.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to learn the Azerbaijani alphabet first?
It helps, and it is quick. Azerbaijani uses a Latin alphabet with 32 letters, and seven of them are new to English readers: ç, ə, ğ, ı, ö, ş, and ü. Bubblegum's free Azerbaijani Alphabet course teaches them in two short chapters, right in your browser.
Can Turkish help me understand Azerbaijani?
Yes, a lot. Turkish is one of Azerbaijani's closest relatives. A Turkish speaker on Reddit who moved to Azerbaijan says they understood about 60% at first and 80% after a month, and words from Russian were the hardest. Some words still fool Turkish speakers: kənd means village in Azerbaijani, while kent means city in Turkish.
Do these apps teach the Azerbaijani spoken in Iran?
The apps and sites on this page teach the Azerbaijani of the Republic of Azerbaijan, written in the Latin alphabet. In Iran, Azerbaijani is written in the Arabic script, so learners of South Azerbaijani need other books and media.
Is Bubblegum free?
Yes. The lesson library is free for everyone, because we believe everyone should be able to learn. It holds lessons that other learners asked Poppy for. A new custom lesson costs us real money to make, so you can ask Poppy for a free one, and Bubblegum Pro gives you unlimited custom lessons.
The Azerbaijani Alphabet course on this site is also free and needs no account.
Sources
- r/azerbaijan: Learn the language (study guides sorted by level are hard to find)
- Danışan Kitab: About the project
- GLOSS, Defense Language Institute: Azerbaijani lessons
- r/languagelearning: Moving to Azerbaijan (a learner on GLOSS texts with audio)
- r/LearnAzerbaijani: Sources for Learning Azerbaijani
- Learn Azerbaijani with Sevda on YouTube
- Learn Azerbaijani Today! on YouTube
- Azerbaijani.edu.az: About
- r/azerbaijan: Southern Azerbaijani from Diaspora wants to learn the language
- e-dərslik: Azerbaijan's electronic school books
- r/LearnAzerbaijani: How to start learning how to read Azeri?
- Azərbaycanfilm on YouTube
- r/LearnAzerbaijani: YouTube and other recommendations for beginners
- r/azerbaijan: Learning Azerbaijani language (Arşın mal alan)
- İctimai TV on YouTube
- r/azerbaijan: Contents in Azerbaijani language
- Söhbətgah on YouTube
- BBC News Azərbaycanca
- Azadlıq Radiosu (RFE/RL)
- UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies: Azeri / Azerbaijani
- r/azerbaijan: Azerbaijani language (a Turkish speaker in Azerbaijan)
- r/languagelearning: Language of the week, Azerbaijani (false friends with Turkish)
- Bubblegum
- Danışan Kitab
- Readlang
- Language Reactor
Checked on October 8, 2026 against each app's own pages.
