Greek makes sense. Somebody has to explain it.
A structured, grammar-first course in Modern Greek. Every rule is explained 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.
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, then schedule.
The same three steps for every rule in the course, from the alphabet to the passive voice.
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.
A1–B2, in four parts.
Sequential, not a menu of topics. Each level assumes the one before it, which is what lets the explanations build instead of repeating.
- A1Foundations4 modules · 19 lessons
- A2Everyday Greek5 modules · 37 lessons
- B1Grammar & vocabulary10 modules · 99 lessons
- B2Command & nuance13 modules · 136 lessons
291 lessons across 118 grammar topics, with 4,658 vocabulary items, 11,215 exercises, and recorded audio for the whole corpus. Alongside it sits a grammar reference of 79 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.