Free Greek Lessons and Courses

Free Greek Lessons and Courses
We have gathered together here a number of free Greek language lessons and language courses for those learning Greek, along with some other Greek language resources, such as Greek online courses and exercises, podcasts, video lessons, alphabets, dictionaries, lexicons, verb conjugations, language communities, newspapers, articles, and books. Most of these sites will be in English, although a number are multilingual in nature.

  Video Lessons

Learn Greek
20 video lessons in modern Greek by linaaaap1...
Greek 101 - Common Words & Phrases - Level One
A number of video lessons in modern Greek by Travel 101 - search on Greek 101 to get more Greek videos...
Modern Greek
47 lessons in modern Greek, by Papaloizos...

  Courses and Exercises

BBC Greek
Learn Greek online with videos and audio presented by the BBC.
Learning Greek Podcasts
80 free downloadable audio podcasts and accompanying PDF text for learning modern Greek, presented by the Hellenic American Union. The podcasts are for everyone, regardless of age, whose mother language is not Greek, and who wants to improve in Greek in an original manner, whenever they like.
Kypros.org Learn Greek
"Learn Greek Online is a course provided by Kypros-Net in collaboration with the CyBC to teach the modern Greek language online. Learn Greek Online is currently composed of 105 real audio files (around 15 minutes each), online student notes, a collection of collaborative learning tools and an online greek dictionary and a greek spell checker. The text version of these lessons has been contributed by students of this course. The course is offered absolutely free of charge. All you need to do is register and enjoy !. "
Modern Greek as a Foreign Language: Advanced Level
"A dense course for advanced learners of modern Greek (both as a foreign and as a second language), that constitute mainly of short time reading/writing and integrative activities and hopefully gives students around the world the opportunity to use and improve their Greek while they are surfing the net." Requires Greek fonts.
An Introduction to Modern Greek, by J. David Eisenberg
Modern Greek Tutorial by J David Eisenberg under a Creative Commons License; The material in this course is based on the beginning Greek course that he took at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in San Jose, CA. It does not require any special Greek fonts or software.
Greek Through the Internet
A number of lessons in modern Greek designed to give an introduction to the language, and enable others to browse the web in Greek...
Learn to Read Greek
Lessons in the Greek script.
Modern Greek Grammar Lessons
Free Modern Greek Grammar Lessons and Greek-English, English-Greek crosswords. Useful also for Greek-speakers who are learning English. Created by David Rennolds, ex-Bristol, London, Largs, Sisi, Elounda. Now of Chania, Crete.
An Overview of Greek Grammar
Learn about verbs, nouns, numbers, other parts of speech, and the phrase structure in Modern and Ancient Greek.
About the Greek Language
Alphabet, Details of modern prtences, and short paragraphs, Thematic groups of concepts and vocabulary, Hand-writing, Word-lists, and Ask a Greek!
Greek Grammar (First Edition) - H. W. Smyth
Part 1 and 2 of a comprehensive Greek grammar; only partially constructed.

  Language Communities

Polyglot
Polyglot is a non-profit community dedicated to language exchange. Polyglot allows you to find the right person ready to exchange languages with you. You will search for penpals according to age, gender, location, hobbies, etc. Polyglot is fully customizable. You will choose your own icons, styles or post your own Polyglot translations, so that more people speaking your language can become a member.
Speak Any Language Online Community
Speak-Any-Language.com is a web-based, global community dedicated to making the world a smaller place through understanding of languages and cultures. Our Forums area gives each of our users the opportunity to communicate with each other. Our Chat area gives everyone the opportunity practice speaking in the languages of their choice. Best of all, the services on these pages are free.
UniLang Community
The main purpose of the UniLang Community is to provide an online site where people interested in languages can unite, openly discuss, and find resources related to language(s), linguistics and translations. We are an open non-profit organization, meaning that everything on our site is publicly accessible at no cost, and membership is also free and open for everybody. All data, unless otherwise stated, is licensed under an open licence, the UniLang Public License, as opposed to a restrictive copyright.

  Other Greek Resources

Greek Dictionaries Online
Links to online dictionaries in Greek from all over the world, including monolingual online dictionaries, bilingual online dictionaries, online technical and specialty dictionaries, and online translation engines and hyper-dictionaries.
Greek Internet Radio and Online News Radio
Large directory of internet radio programs with conversation and music in a number of different audio formats.
Greek Newspapers Online
Directory of online Greek newspapers.