awesome-greek

awesome greek 🕶️

A curated repository of resources for learning Modern Greek.

Ancient Greek resources will not be included.

• Alphabet (Αλφάβητο)
• Phonology (Φωνολογία)
• Vocabulary (Λεξιλόγιο)
• Grammar (Γραμματική)

Table of Contents

• 🎥 Video
  • YouTube
  • Shows
  • Streaming
  • Movies
• 🎙️ Audio
  • Websites
  • Podcasts
  • Audio Books
  • Radio
  • Music
• 📄 Text
  • Websites
  • Articles
  • Blogs
  • Books
• 🎮 Interactive
  • Websites
  • Apps
  • Open Courses
• Common Greek Proficiency Test

Level

The following colored squares next to resources indicate the given level.

Note, a resource may belong to multiple levels.

• 🟩 - Absolute Beginner (A1): mostly in English.
• 🟨 - Beginner (A2): mostly in slow easy-to-understand Greek.
• 🟧 - Intermediate (B1 - B2)
• 🟥 - Advanced (C1 - C2)
• ⬛ - All levels (A1 - C2)

Subtitles & Transcript

The below emojis next to video or audio resources indicate the following:

• 💬🇬🇷 - Greek subtitles or transcript
• 💬🇬🇧 - English subtitles or transcript
• 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 - Greek & English subtitles or transcript

🎥 Video

YouTube

Channels

Learn Greek

YouTube channels about learning Greek as a second language.

In English:

• 🟩 Learn Greek with GreekPod101.com
• 🟩 Learn Greek with Lina
• 🟩 The Greek Online School
• 🟩 greek lessons online
• 🟩 Ρίτα Κουκουλάκη - not active, and only 6 videos.

In Greek & English:

• 🟩🟨 Helinika - Mostly in English, but features some Greek videos with subtitles, stories in Greek, and more!
• 🟩🟨 Omilo Greek Language and Culture - Mostly in English, but features stories in Greek with subtitles.
• 🟩🟨 Miss Ruby - Speaks both Greek & English within the same video without subtitles.
• 🟩🟨 greek2go by Rita Dana - Speaks both Greek & English within the same video without subtitles.
• 🟩 Lingo Jump Channel - Greek

In Greek:

• 🟨 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 The Online Greek Tutor
• 🟨 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 Do You Speak Greek?
• 🟨 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 Easy Greek / Easy Languages - Greek
• 🟨 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 Linguatree
• 🟨 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 Learn Greek with Katerina
• 🟨 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 Learn Greek with Zoi
• 🟨 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 Difficult Greek - about Modern Greek and language learning.
• 🟨 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 Glossonauts - Whether videos have Greek and / or English subtitles is inconsistent.
• 🟨 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 my greek podcast - not active, and only 11 videos.
• 🟨 💬🇬🇷 Elena Efthimiou - Comprehensible Greek videos with Greek subtitles influenced by Stephen Krashen.

Children

• 🟨 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 BookBox - Animated stories for children (currently only 8 stories).
• 🟨 💬🇬🇷 Ναι Μπορώ - Παραμύθια για παιδιά - Close to 40 fairy tales for children in Greek with Greek subtitles.
• 🟨 💬🇬🇧 Greek Fairy Tales (Ελληνικά Παραμύθια) - In Greek with English subtitles.
• RaniaSchool - Greek videos for school children.
• Ατέλειωτες Ιστορίες - Stories for children in Greek. Some videos have subtitles, but it’s inconsistent.
• ΤσίκιΡίκιΤρομ Δανάη & Κροξ - Greek videos for infants and preschool children.
• Yiouupi Tv - Greek videos for infants and preschool children.
• Kids FM - No subtitles.
• The Professor with the Bow - Tie - Teaches ancient and modern Greek. Has videos in English and Greek without subtitles.

Science

• 🟥 💬🇬🇷 Καθημερινή Φυσική (Daily Physics) - Popular science videos in Greek.
• 🟥 💬🇬🇷 Astronio - videos about astrophysics in Greek.
• 🟥 The Skeptic Theory - videos about science in Greek.
• 🟥 Lab of Datum - Greek videos related to science.
• 🟥 IT’S JUST PHYSICS by Christos Kiriakidis - videos about Physics in Greek.
• 🟥 Science Behind Music - videos about the scientific aspects of music in Greek.

History & Mythology

• 🟥 💬🇬🇷 Ιστορικοί Περίπατοι (Historical Walks) - History, current events and controversial issues surrounding politics and everyday life. Newer videos contain Greek and English subtitles.
• 🟥 The Mythologist - videos about Greek mythology in Greek!
• 🟥 Ιστορικός Περιηγητής - Videos about history in Greek.

Programming & Technology

• 🟥 jimkokko5 - Programming and technology videos in Greek.
• 🟥 Tech and Code In Greek - Programming and technology videos in Greek.
• 🟥 Δημήτρης Ψούνης - Programming videos in Greek.

Food, Health, & Nutrition

• 🟥 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 Stelios Pantazis - videos about health and nutrition in Greek.
• 🟥 💬🇬🇷 Panos Ioannidis - Cooking
• 🟥 Grandpa Tassos cooking - has machine-generated translations.
• 🟥 Live Kitchen Channel - has machine-generated translations.
• 🟥 Apollonas Kapsalis - Greek Goes Keto. The largest channel for the Ketogenic Mediterranean diet.

Uncategorized

• 🟥 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 Spiros Soulis - Decoration and interior design.
• 🟥 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 ΤΕΤΡΑΠΟΔΟΣ ΚΟΣΜΟΣ - Videos about pets.
• 🟥 💬🇬🇷 Greekonomics - Videos about how the economy affects society.
• 🟥 💬🇬🇧 Greek TED Talks with English Subtitles - Currently 12 talks.
• 🟥 💬🇬🇷 Khan Academy Greek
• 🟥 💬🇬🇷 Mikeius Official - some videos have Greek subtitles.
• 🟥 💬🇬🇷 ΕΜΕΝΑ ΡΩΤΑ - videos about the music industry.
• 🟥 Ο Φιλέλληνας - Multilingual Belgian who makes videos in Greek.
• 🟥 Glossa Productions - Greek videos about language.
• 🟥 VICE Greece
  • Μαθήματα Επιβίωσης στα Βουνά της Βόρειας Ελλάδας (Survival Courses in the Mountains of Northern Greece)
• 🟥 Κομμουνιστική Νεολαία Ελλάδας (ΚΝΕ) - Communist Youth of Greece. Has subtitles in Greek and English.
• 🟥 News247gr

Videos

• 🟩 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 Learn Greek While You Sleep 😀 Most Important Greek Phrases and Words 👍 English/Greek (8 Hours)
• 🟥 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 Knowledge as a Common. Communities of production and sharing in Greece
• 🟥 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 Building Communities of Commons in Greece - A documentary on networks in the Sarantaporo area
• 🟥 💬🇬🇧 Τzoumakers: A mountainous community of open source technologies

Shows

• 🟨 💬🇬🇷 Πέππα το γουρουνάκι (Peppa Pig) - on YouTube with Greek subtitles.
  • Πέππα το Γουρουνάκι - επίσημο κανάλι
• Χάιντι, η σειρά Official - on YouTube
• 💫Cartoons στα ελληνικα🇬🇷 - YouTube Playlist

Streaming

• https://www.megatv.com/
• https://ertflix.gr/
• Greece TV & Radio - Watch and listen to free Greek TV and Radio channels using only your internet and your mobile / tablet.

Movies

• 🟩 BBC Learning Zone - Talk Greek 1
• 🟥 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 Βόρεια Εύβοια, Το Σχέδιο (North Evia, The Plan) - Two-part documentary film about how and why North Evia got burned in the fires of August 2021. Part 1 addresses the “how”, and part 2 addresses the “why”.
• 🟥 💬🇬🇧 Without Milk - Χωρίς Γάλα - A short film by Thodoris Vournas
• 🟥 💬🇬🇧 How Can Greece Save Its Olive Oil Industry?
• 🟥 💬🇬🇧 Athos - Mount Athos Monk’s Republic Documentary - Mount Athos on a peninsula off the cost of Greece is one of Europe’s last remaining secrets: a monks’ republic. Access to women is strictly denied and in order to keep unwanted tourists out, visas are granted only to pilgrims and workers. For the first time, a filmmaker was given access to all forms of monastic life on the holy mountain.
• 🟥 💬🇬🇧 Έτερος Εγώ (Other Me) - a 2016 Greek crime film.
• 🟥 💬🇬🇧 Παραμύθι χωρίς όνομα - adaptation of a classic novel which is a free audio book listed below.

Lists:

• 🟨 Best Greek movies for beginners & advanced learners- Slow Greek lessons
• 🟥 Difficult Greek - Short Films
• 🟥 Difficult Greek - Full Length Films
• 🟥 Difficult Greek - Documentaries
• 🟥 Greek Movies with English Subtitles - YouTube Playlist

🎙️ Audio

Websites

• 🟩🟨 Oh my sweet Greece: Audio Stories - requires signup to newsletter.
• 🟨 A short story in Greek (with audio)
• 🟨 Interlinear Greek Books - with audio and English subtitles.
• 🟨 LingQ Mini Stories
• 🟨 Unofficial Greek Duolingo Stories - audio is machine-generated.
• 🟨 Greek Texts - Texts from Τράπεζα κειμένων with synced audio from members of the Learning Greek Discord server.
• 🟨 Greek Mythology - Stories of ancient mythological heroes and gods - Audio is machine-generated.

Podcasts

Roughly in order of lowest difficulty to highest difficulty:

• 🟩 Complete Greek - Language Transfer - Free audio course for beginners using the ‘thinking method’ — a question and answer format based on the socratic method.
• 🟩 Unlocking Greek potential - Yiuli teaches Greek to Ellis mostly in English. Over 50 episodes around 20 minutes each in English.
• 🟩🟨 Hellenic American Union: Learning Greek Podcasts
• 🟨 💬🇬🇷 Omilo: Easy Greek Stories Podcast - Companion notebook including Greek transcript, English translation, vocabularly list, and grammar exercise available for purchase.
• 🟨 💬🇬🇷 Let’s Talk Greek podcast - short dialogues (average 4 minutes) with free Greek transcript.
• 🟨 Super Easy Greek for Beginners - transcripts available with a paid membership.
• 🟨 Greek at Heart podcast - 13 episodes in Greek for intermediate learners with transcripts available after a free sign-up.
• 🟨 My Greek Teacher podcast - by Efi Asvesti. Not many episodes.
• 🟨 WeeGreek - Over 40 episodes with an average length of 17 minutes featuring short stories in Greek with a machine-generated English translation.
• 🟨 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 Learning Greek: A Modern Odyssey - short dialogues in Greek with Greek and English transcript.
• 🟨 💬🇬🇷 Slow Greek Podcast ~ Six Thousand Islands
• 🟧 💬🇬🇷 Oh my sweet Greece: Με αγάπη από την Αθήνα podcast - transcript available after email newsletter subscription.
• 🟧 Easy Greek: Learn Greek with authentic conversations - transcripts available with a membership.
• 🟧 Ζουζουνοπαραμύθια - Zouzounia TV offers classic fairy tailes with short episodes around 10 minutes.
• 🟥 💬🇬🇷 LiFO Podcasts - ΗΧΗΤΙΚΑ ΑΡΘΡΑ (Audio Articles)
• 🟥 Science Talks - Discussions with academics and researchers on various scientific topics in their specialty from the University of Cyprus.
• 🟥 Science Talks Kids Edition
• 🟥 Κathimerini Podcasts
• 🟥 Special Broadcasting Services (SBS) Greek - Podcast
• 🟥 Top Greece Spotify Podcasts

Audio books

Specific audio-books:

• 🟧 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 Τα Ψηλά Βουνά by Ζαχαρίας Παπαντωνίου (Greek Text / English Text / Audio) - a group of children spend their summer in the mountains. By the end of the summer they learn to function as a community, protect the forest, and become more ecologically conscious.
• 🟧 💬🇬🇷 Τρελαντώνης by Πηνελόπη Δέλτα (Text / Audio) - Recounts the exciting summer that the author and her siblings had at the house of uncle George and aunt Marietta, in Piraeus. Four young children will bring the world upside down and shake the adult’s balanced life, with their mischief. And among them, Antonis, who with his vividness, wit and temperament manages to make every day special: occasional walks to the sea, eventful English courses, damages, fights and punishments.
• 🟧 💬🇬🇷 Παραμύθι χωρίς όνομα by Πηνελόπη Δέλτα (Text / Audio) - The Kingdom of Moirolatres falls into decay as the King Astochastos cares only for his own comfort and neglects the welfare of his country. Many people leave and the kingdom gets ravaged and poor. The prince, disgusted by the situation, wants to leave too, but a series of events awakens hope and determination in him. With the help of his sister and a few loyal companions, he manages to save his kingdom from destruction and bring it back in development!

Repositories for audio books:

• https://www.openbook.gr/category/audio-books/
• https://www.ebooks4greeks.gr/tag/audiobooks
• LibriVox - Greek

YouTube channels of audio books:

• 🟥 Mikros Anagnostis
• 🟥 Βιβλία από Ήχο

Radio

• 🟥 https://www.e-radio.gr/
• 🟥 https://www.ert.gr/
• 🟥 Special Broadcasting Services (SBS) Greek - Radio

Music

• Ελληνική Μουσική (Greek Music) - A curated YouTube playlist by G Roques.
• Difficult Greek - Songs - Various songs accompanied by Greek and English lyrics with some additional information.

Greek record labels:

• Panik Records
• Cobalt Music

📄 Text

Websites

• 🟩 Harry Foundalis - About the Greek Language
• ⬛ Tράπεζα κειμένων (Text Bank) - A collection of authentic texts for learning Greek as a second language.
• ⬛ Difficult Greek: Stories - Short stories for all levels with English translation and vocabulary lists.
• 🟨 StoryWeaver (Greek) - short stories for children.
• 🟨 Παιδικά Παραμύθια (Children’s Tales) - a modern, mobile and tablet friendly website, with short and long myths and classic tales.
• 🟥 Peer-to-peer (P2P) in Greece
  • https://www.p2plab.gr/en/
  • https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Greece
  • https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Category:Greece
• 🟥 Rural Electrification Research Group - National Papers
• 🟥 Open Technologies Alliance (GFOSS)
• 🟥 ΕΛ / ΛΑΚ - Ελεύθερο Λογισμικό / Λογισμικό Ανοικτού Κώδικα (Free Software / Open Source Software)
• 🟥 https://neaguinea.org/
• 🟥 https://abc.commons.gr/

Articles

• 🟩 Wikipedia - Modern Greek
• 🟩 Greek Influence on the English and Spanish Alphabets: The Story of the PH, TH, and CH letter combinations and Greek letters in English and Spanish
• 🟩 The Greek Impact on English Vocabulary
• 🟩 Luca Lampariello - How to Learn Greek: My 3 Biggest Lessons Learned
• 🟥 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 Πώς να δημιουργήσουμε μια παγκόσμια και ευημερούσα οικονομία βασισμένη στα κοινά / How to create a thriving global commons economy - Δοκίμιο των Βασίλη Κωστάκη & Michel Bauwens
• 🟥 💬🇬🇷🇬🇧 Το Μανιφέστο του Κοινού Κτήματος (Public Domain Manifesto)

Blogs

• 🟩 https://blogs.transparent.com/greek/
• Greek Grammar Blog (tumblr) - articles on the passive voice, pronouns, cases, articles, and other aspects of Modern Greek grammar.
• 🟥 https://www.opensesame.gr/

Books

• 🟥 Το Ομότιμο Μανιφέστο - Βασίλης Κωστάκης (The Peer Manifesto - Vasilis Kostakis)

Learning Greek

• 🟩🟨 Modern Greek: Grammar Notes for Absolute Beginners - A User-Friendly Grammar for Levels A1-A2 by Maria Poulopoulou
  • Chapters in Greek can be downloaded from http://moderngreek.eu/ from the web archive.
• 🟧 Modern Greek: Grammar Notes for Intermediate Learners - A User-Friendly Grammar for Levels B1-B2 by Maria Poulopoulou
• 🟩🟨🟧 Greek: An Essential Grammar
• 🟩🟨🟧 Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language
• General Secretariat for Lifelong Learning
  • 🟩 Greek Language Learning - A1
  • 🟨 Greek Language Learning - A2
  • Elements of Greek History & Greek Culture
• 🟩🟨 Modern Greek - Wikibooks
• 🟩🟨 Colloquial Greek by Niki Watts
• 🟥 Γραμματική Νέας Ελληνικής Γλώσσας (Grammar of Modern Greek Language)
• ⬛ Books4Languages - Index

Repositories

• 🟥 “Kallipos” Repository - a site for collecting books, aids and learning objects, which have either been created by members of the academic and research community in the framework of the Action “Greek Academic Electronic Books and Aids / Kallipos” or have been made available to the public.
• 🟥 https://www.openbook.gr/
• 🟥 https://www.ebooks4greeks.gr/
• 🟥 https://free-ebooks.gr/
  • 🟧 https://free-ebooks.gr/ - Παιδικά (children)
• 🟥 https://taexeiola.blogspot.com/
• 🟥 Project Gutenberg - Greek

🎮 Interactive

Websites

• 🟩 Filoglossia - Learning Greek as a foreign language
  • Sitemap
• ⬛ http://www.kypros.org/LearnGreek/
• http://greek.pgeorgalas.gr/Default.asp
  • http://greek.pgeorgalas.gr/Contents.asp
• I Kind Like Languages: Greek Medio-Passive Voice
• ⬛ GreekPod101 - Paid, but offers some free content.

Apps

• ⬛ Duolingo
• ⬛ Memrise
• ⬛ Clozemaster

Open Courses

• 🟥 Open Courses - National Technical University of Athens (Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο)
  • Wind Energy - Video Lesson (Αιολική Ενέργεια - Βιντεομάθημα)
  • Air elasticity with application to wind turbines (Αεροελαστικότητα με εφαρμογή σε ανεμογεννήτριες)

Common Greek Proficiency Test

The Certificate of Attainment in Greek is the only officially recognized certificate that confirms the knowledge of Greek as a second language. It offers a professional opinion of one’s knowledge of Greek, and serves as proof of the level of attainment in Greek in the work market.