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Ancient Greek for Beginners
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Ancient Greek for Beginners

Your first steps into the amazing Ancient Greek language
Last updated 3/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Learn the Greek Alphabet
  • Acquire a solid basic vocabulary
  • Understand Ancient Greek grammar
  • Be able to read Ancient Greek texts

Course content

11 sections161 lectures74h 14m total length
  • Introduction2:35
  • The Greek Language12:14
  • The Greek Alphabet12:53
  • Accent Marks (Diacritics)18:44
  • Pronunciation: Consonants35:29
  • Pronunciation: Vowels35:06
  • Pronunciation: Diacritics31:30
  • Exercise M01E01-112:28
  • Exercise M01E01-24:25

    Continue reading and practicing the alphabet and pronunciation, including breathings, with pauses to guess pronunciation. Write by hand and copy the words—proteros, teos, ekenos, polis—from the screen to reinforce learning.

  • Exercise M01E01-35:22

    Practice reading pronunciation of inflected nouns and adjectives across nominative, accusative, and dative forms, including dual and plural, and observe stress shifts with the grave accent.

  • Exercise M01E01-42:42

    Practice reading and pronouncing Greek verbs in their conjugated forms, focusing on reading and pronunciation rather than grammar, while reviewing the Greek alphabet, consonants, vowels, and accents.

Requirements

  • No previous knowledge required; familiarity with grammar is helpful

Description

In this course you will learn the basics of Ancient Greek, from the alphabet and pronunciation to morphology, grammar and sentence building, all while acquiring the essential vocabulary of the language. While the course does not cover more advanced topics, such as dialects or more complex syntactical structures, by the end you should be quite comfortable reading easier texts in Ancient Greek, as well as express simple ideas in Ancient Greek - in other words, you will be ready to go deeper into this absolutely amazing language.

We start "from zero", so, you don't need any previous knowledge of the language in order to take this course.

The alphabet and pronunciation is covered in the first lessons, but you will really learn the script along the course.

Our approach is to always practice what you have learnt. That's why we have lots of practical lessons, consisting in exercises, on top of the usual grammar lessons.

Another important feature of this course is that we focus on building sentences in Ancient Greek. So, instead of the traditional reading and translating texts from Greek, you will be mostly translating from English into Ancient Greek, always practicing the vocabulary and the grammar points being studied.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone interested in learning Ancient Greek