More free resources

Last checked: 27 October 2026. Every link below was working on that date. These sites belong to their own owners; Studyfern only points to them and has no connection with any of them. Anything that is not fully free is marked.

General

• Khan Academy: free video lessons and practice exercises across school subjects, run by a non-profit.
• OpenStax: free, peer-reviewed university textbooks, including Principles of Finance, Principles of Accounting and Psychology 2e.
• MIT OpenCourseWare: lecture notes, exams and videos from real MIT courses.
• Open Yale Courses: full recorded lecture courses from Yale.
• Saylor Academy: free self-paced university-level courses.
• LibreTexts: a large library of free, openly licensed textbooks.
• Open Textbook Library: a University of Minnesota catalogue of free textbooks, many with faculty reviews.
• Project Gutenberg: free e-books of older works whose US copyright has ended.
• Open Library: an Internet Archive library; reading and borrowing are free, borrowing needs a free account.
• Coursera and edX: university courses. Many are free to audit; certificates and some graded work cost money.

Professional exams

• ACCA exam support resources: ACCA's own free study support for its exams, including specimen exams and past exam questions. Studyfern is independent and is not connected with ACCA.

Finance

• Investor.gov: investor education from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including calculators.
• Aswath Damodaran's pages: free valuation lectures and notes from an NYU Stern professor.
• Damodaran's data sets: free industry data on returns, risk and valuation, updated each year.
• Khan Academy: Economics and finance: short videos on interest, banking, markets and more.
• CORE Econ: The Economy and other free, modern economics textbooks.

Listening and shadowing

Listen to native speakers before you speak, and copy them. To shadow, play a short clip and speak along with it, a moment behind. How to practise speaking with an AI explains how.

• Forvo: single words and phrases recorded by volunteers, mostly native speakers for living languages. You can play them on the site. Latin recordings mix the classical and Church pronunciations, so check them against our pronunciation lesson.
• Tatoeba: a free, open collection of example sentences with translations; some sentences have audio recorded by volunteers, and you can browse just those. Good short clips for shadowing.
• NHK World: Easy Japanese: beginner dialogues with audio, slow and clear.
• TV5MONDE: Apprendre le français: free short French videos with listening exercises, and a short test to find your level.
• RFI: Journal en français facile: slower French news with transcripts, so you can read along while you shadow.

Psychology

• OpenStax: Psychology 2e: a free introductory psychology textbook.
• Noba Project: free, expert-written psychology modules for students and teachers.