Free Greek learning resources
44 free resources, checked and categorised.
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Decide first which Greek you want, because the free material mixes both and they are not the same language. Modern Greek is what people speak today; Ancient Greek is a separate study aimed at reading classical texts. Starting the wrong one is the most common early mistake here.
For Modern Greek, the alphabet takes a few days and is the smallest obstacle — do not let it delay you. The real work is the case system and, later, the verb aspect distinction, which has no clean English equivalent and takes sustained exposure rather than explanation.
Free Greek material is thinner than for French or German, so lean on what exists: a solid course, a dictionary with audio, and Greek radio and news for listening. Because the pool is smaller, finishing one good course matters more here than shopping around for a better one.
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Leonard Muellner (Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at Brandeis University) and Belisi Gillespie present all the content covered in two semesters of a college-level Introduction to Ancient Greek course.
A Greek book based on comprehensible input. Lacking in terms of grammar instruction, but very good as a supplementary tool.
Free online resources.
The most common Greek verbs with complete conjugation.
Free editions of ancient Greek texts — Homer, Herodotus, Plato, Euripides and the New Testament — with built-in reading aids that gloss vocabulary and grammar on the page.
Downloadable fonts.
Here you can write a text in latin script and it will get converted to the Greek script.
Info about the Greek language.
A blog for Greek language learners.
"A small but growing vocabulary of Classical Greek words for the modern world"
A blog about Greece and the Greek language.
Learn it there, practise it here
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This directory began from a community-built list of free language resources — a year of collecting and checking by Joanna (u/chlebka) and dozens of contributors who suggested links, shared freely. See the original list. We have since expanded, re-checked and re-categorised it, and we keep the per-resource credits where the original list recorded them.