Greek makes sense. Somebody has to explain it.
A structured, grammar-first course in Modern Greek. It starts at the alphabet and builds one lesson on the last, explaining every rule before it is drilled - genders and articles, the four cases, the whole verb system - so you can build a sentence you have never seen, instead of recognising one you have.
On your first day you say what you are learning Greek for, and the course routes to it: the same 321 lessons in the same order, stopping where you need it to.
- Pass the Ellinomatheia B1 exam
- B1 · 178 lessons
- Understand my family and my heritage
- B1 · 178 lessons
- Live in Greece and handle daily life
- B1 · 178 lessons
- Travel and everyday basics
- A2 · 72 lessons
- Read and understand Greek properly
- B2 · 321 lessons
Ο πατέρας
αγαπά
τον αδελφό
“The father loves the brother.”
Free while the course is in development · A1–B2 · no card, no trial
Recognising a word is not knowing it.
Phrase apps are very good at teaching you to pick the right tile out of four. That is recognition, and it holds up until the moment you have to say something nobody prompted you with.
Greek does not let you off there. Before you open your mouth you have already made a decision about gender, case and number - and the word changes shape depending on how you decided. That decision is a rule. Rules are learnable, quickly, if somebody sets them out. They are close to unlearnable by matching pairs.
- A noun
- 8
- An adjective
- 24
- A verb, present tense alone
- 6
4 cases × 2 numbers
and the article in front of it changes too
3 genders × 4 cases × 2 numbers
it has to agree with whatever it describes
3 persons × 2 numbers
before you reach past, future, or the passive
This is a page from the course.
Not a mock-up - the same component the lessons render, over the same audited forms. Every form in the course resolves from one store, so what you drill and what you look up can never disagree.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ο | οι |
| Accusative | τον | τους |
| Genitive | του | των |
| Vocative | — | — |
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | η | οι |
| Accusative | την | τις |
| Genitive | της | των |
| Vocative | — | — |
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | το | τα |
| Accusative | το | τα |
| Genitive | του | των |
| Vocative | — | — |
Learn this one table and you can already hear the difference between ο άνθρωπος (the one doing it) and τον άνθρωπο (the one it is done to). The course teaches the table, explains what each row is for, and then drills it until choosing the row stops being a decision.
Explain, drill, schedule - then prove it.
The same four steps for every rule in the course, from the alphabet to the passive voice - and a paper to sit when you need to know where you stand.
Read the rule
Each lesson opens with the explanation, in English, with worked examples and the paradigm table set properly. Not a hint after you get it wrong - the rule, up front, before you are asked for anything.
Drill it deliberately
Then exercises built against that specific rule: produce the form, pick the article, translate in both directions, take dictation. Getting it wrong routes the item into a mistake loop rather than deducting a heart.
Meet it again just before you forget
Everything you learn enters a scheduler that models your memory of each item individually and surfaces it at the point it is about to fade. It is FSRS, the algorithm Anki adopted as its default - which in practice means noticeably fewer reviews for the same retention than the fixed intervals older apps use.
Prove it under exam conditions
Papers at A1–A2, B1 and B2, drawn from 1,417 authored grammar questions and 9,358 vocabulary ones. A sitting is 30 questions: 10 grammar, then 20 vocabulary, scored by part. Sit it sealed and you see nothing until the end, then a review that walks back through every miss to the rule that governs it. “Pass the Ellinomatheia B1 exam” is one of the goals you can set on your first day, and it routes the course to finish at B1: 178 lessons rather than all 321.
A1–B2, in four parts.
Built to be taken in order: every content word in a lesson's examples has already been taught - articles, particles, names and a handful of verbs shown as prose aside - so the explanations compound, and the build fails if an example breaks that. Once you have an account, nothing is locked: open any lesson, at any level, from your first day.
- A1Foundations4 modules · 25 lessons
- A2Everyday Greek5 modules · 47 lessons
- B1Grammar & vocabulary· the Ellinomatheia B1 exam level10 modules · 106 lessons
- B2Command & nuance13 modules · 143 lessons
321 lessons across 137 grammar topics, with 4,679 vocabulary items, 11,624 exercises, and recorded audio for the whole corpus. Alongside it sits a grammar reference of 125 entries in 6 groups - readable without an account, because you should be able to judge the teaching before you sign up for it.
κατάλαβα
katálava · “I understood” - the aorist of καταλαβαίνω, to understand. It is what Katalava is named for, and the sentence the course is built to make you able to say.
Start at the alphabet. Finish able to explain why.
Free while the course is in development. An account exists so your progress and review schedule survive the browser you started in.