
Meet Amnesia, a Greek translator and tutor, and begin your journey toward speaking Greek. Learn alongside this supportive guide throughout the process.
Explore why Greek matters, tracing its 3500-year tradition and unbroken continuity within Indo-European history, and its influence on English words and EU official language status.
Begin by learning the alphabet, reading Greek, and mastering grammar to construct phrases, then practice everyday dialogues to speak like a local with Amnesia guiding you.
Discover the Greek alphabet of 24 letters, master vowel and consonant pronunciation, and learn digraphs—two-letter combos that produce sounds like ev, eu, and th.
Explore modern Greek pronunciation: stress marked by an acute accent on vowels, rules for diphthongs with accents on the second vowel, and major consonant categories from labial to sibilants.
Learn how Greek nouns and pronouns decline by case: nominative for subjects, accusative for objects, genitive for possession, and vocative for direct address, with articles and prepositions.
Classify Greek nouns by gender as masculine, feminine, or neuter, guided by articles and nominative endings; learn four cases, two numbers, and declension patterns with examples.
Identify Greek noun gender through endings and articles, apply declension rules across masculine, feminine, and neuter groups, and recognize adjectives, pronouns, and past participles.
Explore irregular Greek adjectives in masculine, feminine, and neuter forms and learn to form comparatives and superlatives using pio, apo, and the definite article.
Demonstrates how Greek personal pronouns decline across nominative, accusative, genitive, and vocative, using ego and its emphatic and short common forms to show subject, object, possession, and indirect objects.
Discover how Greek personal pronouns serve as direct and indirect objects, before or after the verb, using accusative and genitive forms, with say for emphasis.
Indicative Mood for the following verbs: 1st group, 2nd group, exceptional verbs (AB group)
Explore the indicative mood with a downloadable table for the first group Greek verbs, focusing on the first person singular 'I' and present, past, and future endings for personal use.
Explore the indicative mood of the second verb group in Greek, identify endings and accent rules, and compare groups 2a and 2b with examples of present, past and future tenses.
Subjunctive Mood for the following verbs: 1st group, 2nd group, exceptional verbs (AB group)
Imperative Mood for the following verbs: 1st group, 2nd group, exceptional verbs (AB group)
Examine a table of verbs in the imperative mood, including first and second groups and exceptional verbs, using past subjunctive stems and endings for singular and plural.
Explore the Greek conditional with the verb θέλω, using 'I would like' and sa sla, and its polite, formal use in everyday situations like ordering in cafes.
Explore a table of tenses for middle and passive voice verbs and download it to use as your future guide.
Learn to improvise by building your own phrases from daily dialogues, choosing a nominative subject and a verb in present, past, or future, and placing a transitive object in accusative.
learn practical greek for everyday conversations in greece, from common words and phrases like yes, no, please, and you’re welcome, to asking for directions, numbers, and unknown words.
Learn essential hotel dialogue in Greek as you arrive in Greece, selecting single or double bedrooms, asking about floors and breakfast inclusion, and understanding hotel services.
Practice a coffee shop dialogue in Greek, using kalimera greetings, ordering drinks with or without sugar, asking for the bill, paying, tipping, and polite goodbyes.
Develop practical Greek beach dialogue by choosing a beach, asking for plans, and describing crowds, sandy beaches, beach bars, suntan lotion, and umbrella using terms like paralia and cosmos.
Learn to order at a Greek taverna using authentic phrases for greetings, menu items such as boiled greens, spanakopita, and lamb veggie soup, and paying by card or cash.
Practice a simple Greek dialogue to meet new people, using kalimera greetings, self-introductions, origin and stay details, and exchanging phone numbers to foster connections.
Learn how to open a Greek bank account through a practical dialogue, including required documents, card issuance, activation, online transfers, and ATM withdrawals.
Practice a realistic Greek telecom dialogue, choosing postpaid or prepaid plans, understanding free calls in Greece and two hours abroad, and handling contract steps with passport and address.
Practice a travel agency dialogue in Greek to book an affordable trip to Athens and the islands, including four days in Athens and ten on islands, €400 VAT included.
Learn essential phrases for renting a car while traveling, including availability, brand or model preferences, price for five days, license, deposit, and return requirements.
Master key Greek bar phrases, from reserving a table under your name to ordering drinks: vodka, tequila, whiskey, rum, tsipouro, ouzo—and specifying ice, lemon, or orange.
Master essential Greek phrases for using public transport, including riding the metro, tram, or bus, buying tickets by card or cash, and asking a passerby for city center directions.
Learn useful Greek hospital phrases to describe symptoms, body parts, conditions, and visits to doctors, clinics, emergency rooms, and pharmacies, including surgeries, prescriptions, and care options.
Learn essential Greek flirting phrases to approach someone, compliment their looks and voice, invite them out, offer to treat, and exchange names or numbers.
Explore essential Greek document terms: onoma for first name, pateras as patronymic, phyllo gender, ijora country, Ipoly city, and t/k postal code.
Learn to express clothes in Greek, noting similarities to English, with vocabulary for summer and winter wear such as t shirt, anna capello hat, papoutsia shoes, itsandra bag, e-boats boots.
Differentiate colors by origin: latin-derived stay invariable; greek-rooted agree with noun gender. blue is invariable; red appears as kokkinos/kokkini/kokkino; yellow, green, black, white, gold vary too.
Master essential Greek phrases for special occasions and emergencies, including well-wishes for birthdays, weddings, births, holidays, and health, plus urgent terms for ambulance, fire, police, and help.
Explore Greek etymology by tracing everyday English words—air, analysis, chaos, cosmos, dialogue, energy, psychology, photography, politics, paradigm, paradox—and reveal their Greek roots and letter correspondences.
Explore Aristotle quotes, deciphering meanings like 'a friend to all is a friend to none' and 'there is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing'.
This course is a complete guide for beginners/intermediate and advanced students who want to practice the language. If your goal is to settle in Greece, this is the ideal guide. It provides you with grammatical and vocabulary rules and gives you the freedom to make up your own phrases.
The course has a big variety of grammatical rules. All these rules of course cannot be memorised without practise.
It serves as a guide to lead you in forming your own arguments, ideas, etc. For a deeper understanding, it can be repeated on a regular basis. The tables will also help you to go back and pick up the verb you want. The dialogues will help use either ready phrases or just essential words to convey the necessary message.
Along with studying this course, try to apply all these useful phrases in your everyday life. And a last tip! Take regular breaks and try to see the course as a puzzle, holistically. Since it is separated in sections, try to combine verbs with nouns, adverbs etc.
During the course :
Section 1
- Introduction
Section 2
- Greek letters
- Phonetics
- Overview of grammar terms
Section 3
- Declension of nouns
- Nouns
- Other declinable words
- Adjectives and compare
- Personal pronouns
- Personal pronouns as an object
- Mixed pronouns
Section 4
Verbs in Present/Past/Future Simple
- Indicative mood
- Indicative mood - 1st and 2nd group & exceptions & Tables of verbs
- Subjunctive mood
- Subjunctive mood - Table for 1st and 2nd group
- Imperative mood
- Imperative mood - Table for 1st and 2nd group
- Conditional of the verb I want
- Middle and Passive Voice Verbs - Table of tenses
Section 5
- Learn to improvise
-General useful phrases
- Dialogue at the hotel
- Dialogue at the coffee shop
- Dialogue - sightseeing
- Dialogue at the beach
- Dialogue at the store
- Dialogue in the taverna
- Dialogue at the pastry shop
- Dialogue at the groceries'
- Dialogue - Meeting people
- Dialogue - Talk with the neigbor
- Travelling Dialogues
- Dialogue at the bank
- Dialogue at the police station
- Dialogue at the telecom company
- Dialogue at the travel agency
- Dialogue - Renting a car
- Entertainment Dialogues
- Dialogue at the cinema and theatre
- Dialogue in the pharmacy
- Useful phrases in the bar
- Useful phrases at the airport
- Useful phrases at the public transportation
- Useful phrases in the hospital
- Useful phrases to flirt
Section 6
- Greek administration
- Numbers
- Time
- Clothes
- Colours
- Special & Emergency occasions
Section 7
- Etymology
- Some Greek folk music
- Quotes
Enjoy this discovery! Feel free to contact me in case you have any question/suggestion!