Learn Greek

Start at the alphabet

The Greek on-ramp is written by hand, not generated, and it is 191 cards long. Every card is spoken in a recorded Greek voice, and what you get right is scheduled for review rather than shown again at random.

• 24letters
• 10digits
• 17pronunciation rules
• 100core words
• 20everyday phrases
• 20sentences

Three of the pronunciation cards, exactly as the course teaches them:

• μπ — μπ is how Greek writes “b” — “mb” in the middle of a wordμπύρα — beer
• ντ — ντ is how Greek writes “d”ντομάτα — tomato
• γκ γγ — γκ (and γγ inside a word) is how Greek writes a hard “g”γκρι — grey

Then material that does not run out

Once you are reading, the level is the point. Make a text writes Greek at the CEFR level, length, topic and format you ask for, so the step up is a setting rather than a new book. Speaking scores you word by word as you read aloud. Lexi talks back. The Translator fixes your mistakes as it translates and can give a simpler version at your level, and Writing marks what you wrote and says why.

Above the on-ramp sits the Course — a map of practice steps from A1 to C2 with grammar, vocabulary and a level test at the top of each level — and My words, where everything you save comes back on a spaced-repetition schedule in eight quiz styles.

What Greek actually costs a beginner

The combinations are the first real cost: μπ is how Greek writes b, ντ is d, and γκ is g — a learner who does not know that will read μπύρα as mpira rather than beera. The second cost runs the other way. Several letters and pairs, η, ι, υ, ει and οι, all say ee, so hearing a Greek word does not tell you how to spell it, although seeing it always tells you how to say it. And γ before e or i is a soft sound English does not have at all. All three are cards with a recorded Greek voice.