Stories, audio, and videos can all help you learn Slovenian when you can follow what they mean. That is the idea behind comprehensible input: learning from Slovenian you can mostly understand. About 2.4 million people speak Slovenian as their mother tongue, and learners on Reddit often say that material for learning it is hard to find.
These apps and free resources give you Slovenian at your level, or help you follow the Slovenian you pick yourself. For courses, speaking practice, and tutors, see our Slovenian app comparison.
Custom Lessons Made for You
Bubblegum
Learn Slovenian 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 Slovenian about music, food, family, or everyday life.
Poppy, your AI tutor, writes each lesson for your level and goals. If a sentence is hard to follow, just ask her to explain a word or why its ending changed.
The trade-off is that Bubblegum can't help you read Slovenian you found yourself. For a video or a web page you already picked, the tools in Read and Watch Slovenian 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 Slovenian 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™
Mobile
Listen to Stories for Learners
Fluent Fiction
Fluent Fiction is a podcast and app of short stories for learners, and you can also find its Slovenian stories in podcast apps. It suits learners who know some Slovenian and like to learn by listening.
- Short Slovenian stories set in places such as Lake Bled, Ljubljana, and the Julian Alps.
- Each story is told again sentence by sentence, with English in between.
- Each episode comes with a word list and a transcript.
MobileWeb
Read and Hear the News in Easy Slovenian
Enostavno
Enostavno is the news site in easy Slovenian from RTV Slovenija, Slovenia's public broadcaster. RTV writes it for people who find reading hard, including people who are still learning Slovenian, and learners on r/Slovenia have pointed to it since 2022.
- News from Slovenia and the world, written in short, simple sentences.
- Hard words are explained right in the story.
- Listen to each story at normal speed or slowly.
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Watch Slovenian TV With Slovenian Subtitles
RTV 365
RTV 365 is the streaming service of RTV Slovenija. Learners on Reddit have suggested RTV's subtitled shows for years, from children's shows to quiz shows and the news. For easy listening, start with Lahko noč, otroci!, a short bedtime story for every night, read by actors. Then try Infodrom, a weekly news show for young people that explains the hard ideas in the news.
- Watch RTV Slovenija's series, films, documentaries, and cartoons in a free app.
- Turn on Slovenian subtitles for most of TV Slovenija's shows in Slovenian.
- Listen to its radio shows and podcasts, live or later.
MobileWeb
Read and Watch Slovenian You Choose
These tools help you learn from Slovenian videos, books, and web pages you pick yourself. They suit learners who already know what they want to read or watch.
LingQ
LingQ lets you read and listen to Slovenian from its library or bring in your own videos, books, and articles. It highlights the words you have not met yet and the ones you are still learning. When a learner asked LingQ to add Enostavno to its Slovenian news feed, its team added it.
- Read and listen to Slovenian from its library, or import your own.
- See which words you know and which are new.
- Review words with flashcards.
- Flashcards
MobileWeb
Language Player
Language Player turns real videos into lessons, with subtitles in Slovenian and in your own language at the same time. It suits learners who can already follow some spoken Slovenian.
- More than 2,000 Slovenian videos to choose from.
- Tap any word in the subtitles to look it up.
- Save words and review them with spaced repetition.
- Flashcards
MobileWebBrowser extension
Readlang
Readlang helps you read Slovenian on the web, such as the easy news above or Časoris below. It suits learners who can already read some Slovenian and want quick help with new words.
- Tap a word or short phrase on a Slovenian web page to see what it means.
- Read texts from its small Slovenian library, or upload your own.
- Review words with flashcards.
- Flashcards
WebBrowser extension
Free Cartoons, Children's News, and Videos
Children's shows are an easy place to start. RTV Slovenija's free Živ žav app and site have cartoons, series, fairy tales, and radio plays in Slovenian for children aged 3 to 8. Learners on Reddit also suggest searching YouTube for cartoons dubbed into Slovenian, such as Pujsa Pepa, the Slovenian Peppa Pig.
For reading, Časoris is an online newspaper for children that has won international awards. It posts short stories about the news and science most weekdays, and some of them also come out in English, so you can check what you understood.
For videos made for learners, Slovenščina skozi dialog posts short dialogues in Slovenian about everyday things, such as a trip to the post office or a family pet. New videos come out most weeks, and each one helps you practice listening and reading at the same time.
Learn Slovenian in Your Language
These counts cover menu-language choices, including script variants. Other apps’ counts and full lists come from their iPhone listings, except Language Player (Chrome Web Store) and Readlang (its help forum). RTV 365's count comes from its listing in Slovenia's App Store, and Enostavno is a website in Slovenian. Word meanings, lesson explanations, and other platforms may differ.
| App | Supported Display Languages | Full List |
|---|---|---|
| Bubblegum | 74 | Full list
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| Fluent Fiction | 1 | Full list |
| RTV 365 | 1 | Full list |
| LingQ | 17 | Full list |
| Language Player | 17 | Full list |
| Readlang | 1 | Full list |
Other Apps We Looked At (7)
- Noo SpeakFree news summaries in Slovenian every weekday, on topics you choose and in one of three lengths.
- SlonlineA free course from the University of Ljubljana that learners on Reddit often recommend. Its third part has longer texts for reading and listening practice.
- How to Become a SloveneShort, light-hearted Radio Si episodes from 2020 and 2021 by Michael Manske, an American living in Slovenia, about learning Slovenian and everyday life there.
- Dave's ChallengeA finished Radio Si show for people learning Slovenian, with more than 300 short episodes about an Irish bartender who moves to Maribor.
- Mladinska knjiga PLUSE-books and audiobooks in Slovenian from a Slovenian publisher. Some of the audiobooks are read by their authors.
- Slovenian - Listening SpeakingVideo lessons built from real Slovenian videos, where you tap any word to see what it means. It is new and growing.
- Anna in Slovenia and ABC SloveneA blog and a YouTube channel that explain Slovenian grammar in English. Learners on Reddit often use them alongside the input above.
Frequently Asked Questions
Are there graded readers in Slovenian?
A few. The University of Ljubljana's Centre for Slovene as a Second and Foreign Language publishes five graded readers for learners, from level A2 to B1+. They retell folk tales, legends, and stories from history, such as Martin Krpan, and two of them have a free recording on the Centre's site so far.
Does Slovenian spelling show how to say each word?
Not completely. Slovenian uses 25 letters, including č, š, and ž, but everyday writing doesn't mark which syllable is stressed or exactly how some vowels sound. Dictionaries and textbooks add those marks, so listening while you read helps you learn what the spelling leaves out.
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.
Sources
- Slovenia.si: Slovenian language (about 2.4 million mother-tongue speakers)
- r/Slovenia: Where can you learn slovenian?? (“online resources are relatively scarce”)
- r/slovene: Learning Slovenian (“there's not a lot out there”)
- RTV Slovenija: Enostavno, about the site (news in easier language, also for people learning Slovenian)
- r/Slovenia: What is the best way to learn Slovenian? (news in simple language)
- r/Slovenia: Good apps to learn Slovenian? (reading RTV SLO's easy-language news)
- LingQ forum: Create Newsfeed for Slovenian (Enostavno added)
- RTV Slovenija: Mobile apps (RTV 365 and Živ žav, all free)
- RTV Slovenija: About subtitles (most Slovenian-language shows on TV SLO 1 and 2)
- r/Slovenia: I want to give learning the language another go (RTV shows with Slovenian subtitles)
- r/Slovenia: Where to learn Slovenian? (RTV 365 is free)
- r/Slovenia: How to learn the basic words of Slovenian? (cartoons such as Pujsa Pepa)
- r/Slovenia: Best beginner movie or tv shows for learning the language through immersion? (dubbed cartoons on YouTube)
- Časoris: stories also available in English
- Centre for Slovene as a Second and Foreign Language: Graded readers
- Wikipedia: Slovene alphabet (25 letters; stress marks only in dictionaries and textbooks)
- Bubblegum
- Fluent Fiction
- LingQ
- Language Player
- Readlang
Checked on October 8, 2026 against each app's own pages.
