
Learn modern Greek from the basics, starting with the alphabet and verbs, then progress to upper intermediate to speak and communicate in everyday Greek situations.
This lecture introduces the Greek alphabet: 24 letters with seven vowels and 17 consonants, covering uppercase and lowercase forms, pronunciation basics, and key letters from alpha to omega.
Explore Greek diphthongs and how letter combinations like alpha iota, epsilon iota, and omicron iota create vowel sounds, while alpha epsilon and epsilon epsilon outline consonant f and v sounds.
Practice Greek pronunciation by tracing accents, syllable breaks, and common diphthongs, using examples like mama, tzatziki, moussaka, kalimera, demokratia, philosophia.
The lecture explains how modern Greek articles depend on noun endings. Endings signal masculine, feminine, or neuter gender, with neuter endings in Omicron, Iota, or ma.
Learn the essential Greek verb to be, its irregular conjugation, and the vital personal pronouns (ego, you, he, she, it, we, they) with everyday phrases for practical communication.
Examine consonant plus omega verbs in modern greek, focusing on active voice, conjugation with pronouns (ego, you, he), and key verbs kano, echo, and meno.
Explore Modern Greek present-tense verbs ending in vowel and omega, with their conjugation endings, and learn from examples like agapao and milao that o-ending verbs follow the same patterns.
Learn Greek numbers from 1 to 100 by mastering the first ten, recognizing repeating patterns every ten, and building higher tens through practice.
Learn basic Greek phrases for everyday conversation, including greetings, asking where you are from, names, professions, weather, and how much things cost.
Learn how Greek nouns form plurals across masculine, feminine, and neuter, using endings like omicron, iota, and sigma, with nominative examples and agreement with adjectives.
Learn the days of the week, the months, and the seasons in Greek, with pronunciation notes and example sentences like on Tuesday I go for a walk.
Read a real, three-paragraph Greek text aloud and study its pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, then translate and complete comprehension exercises with a PDF translation and a vocabulary table.
Goodbye video invites you to practice speaking Greek, engage with the language, and share questions or feedback by rating the course.
This video course is addressed to beginners or complete beginners who wish to learn Modern Greek.
Starting from the alphabet, you will learn the grammar of verbs, nouns, and adjectives, important Greek everyday phrases, numbers, days, months, seasons etc.
By the end of the course, you will be able to read, to write, and to understand a proper Greek text, as well as to interact in Greek.
The instructor is a native Greek speaker. He speaks in Greek during the course, but he explains everything in English.
We recommend that you follow the sequence of the videos because it will make it easier and more effective for you to learn the new phrases and concepts. As Modern Greek is considered a difficult language, we have tried to simplify the grammar as much as possible, avoiding detailed explanations and terminology which are more likely to confuse than facilitate learning.
Our aim is to give the necessary emphasis to basic and everyday expressions so that you will be able to communicate in Greek about everyday topics, always having explained the basic grammar as well as the logic behind it.
Are you ready to learn one of the most ancient languages in the world?
So let the language learning begin!