🇬🇷 Greek for advanced learners: the best resources

Dimitris and Marilena's weekly podcast passed 280 episodes and was still publishing in August 2026, alongside a YouTube channel that films real people answering questions on the street — both subtitled in Greek and English. It is the best available bridge from textbook Greek to how Greeks actually talk, including slang and swallowed syllables. Episodes and videos are free; transcripts, vocabulary lists and the interactive transcript player come with membership. Genuinely hard below B1.

Innovative Language's Greek arm: dialogue-based audio and video lessons grouped into level pathways, each with a PDF transcript, line-by-line breakdown and an SRS flashcard deck. For Modern Greek, where structured audio courses are thin on the ground, the sheer volume is the point. A free lifetime account unlocks only part of the library, most of it needs a subscription, and the marketing emails are relentless. The public podcast feed was still updating in August 2026.

Omilo runs residential Greek language-and-culture courses in Athens, Nafplion, Syros, Lefkada and Naxos, plus private and online lessons — the option when you want to spend a couple of weeks inside the language. Its free side is genuinely worth having on its own: the 'Easy Greek Stories' podcast reads each story at slow and native pace with a downloadable notebook containing transcript, translation, exercises and answer key. New stories appear only about every two months, and the courses themselves are a significant expense.

The definitive English-language description of Modern Greek, covering the whole verb system, clitics, mood and aspect, and register variation, with copious real examples. It is what you consult when a course book's rule doesn't account for what you're reading. Strictly a reference — organised by structure, not sequenced for study — and priced accordingly. Most learners should start with the same authors' shorter 'Greek: An Essential Grammar' and only graduate to this one.

A teacher working through explicitly level-tagged lesson series (B1 lesson 11 on family and relationships, B2 lesson 4 on the συν- prefix), which makes this one of the few free channels you can follow sequentially at upper-intermediate. Still publishing in August 2026. Uploads are irregular — sometimes months apart — and the presentation is plain, but the level targeting is unusually honest and useful.

Efi Asvesti teaches adults online with a deliberately low-pressure method — vocabulary-first, minimal homework, writing added only at advanced level — and publishes a free 'slow Greek' podcast that reached around 75 episodes by early 2026, together with free articles and a small library. The free podcast alone is worth subscribing to for graded listening. The classes are paid and pricing is not published, so you have to enquire; it is a single teacher, so availability is limited.

A state-backed portal hosting the Triantafyllidis Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek — the reference monolingual dictionary — together with modern Greek grammars, searchable text corpora, dialect lexicons and teaching material for Greek as a foreign language, including distance-learning courses at A1–B1. Everything is free and ad-free. It is a scholarly site in Greek, laid out for researchers rather than learners, so expect to navigate it rather than be guided through it.

The Centre for the Greek Language runs the state Certificate of Attainment in Modern Greek, the qualification recognised for Greek universities and public-sector posts. The site publishes past exam papers and audio for every level plus a searchable bank of texts graded by level, which is useful for self-assessment even if you never sit the exam. The material is free; only the exam itself costs money, and the site is almost entirely in Greek.

ERT's streaming platform carries its drama series, documentaries, children's programming and archive material at no cost, which makes it the obvious source of long-form native Greek once subtitled learner content stops stretching you. Registration is free. Two caveats: availability of individual titles varies by country, so check what actually plays from where you are, and Greek subtitles are inconsistent across the catalogue — plan on listening without a safety net.

SBS broadcasts news in Greek for Australia's Greek community and publishes it as short daily podcast episodes plus articles — clearly-read, standard Greek in bite-sized items, which makes it far more approachable than a full Greek news broadcast. Completely free with no account, and available in any podcast app. There is no learner scaffolding and a good share of the coverage is Australian domestic news, which may not be what you want to be reading about.

The default place to check a translation, ask why a verb takes the form it does, or get resource recommendations vetted by people who have actually used them, with native speakers answering regularly. Especially handy for the register questions — καθαρεύουσα leftovers, slang, formality — that grammars handle badly. Threads sometimes drift into Ancient Greek and etymology, and reply quality varies with who happens to be around.

A free morphological analyser: give it an inflected form you met in a text and it tells you the dictionary headword and the grammatical analysis — the fastest way out of the common beginner problem of not knowing which word to look up. Useful for reading authentic Greek where endings obscure the stem. It is a single-purpose tool with a spartan, Greek-only interface, and it analyses rather than translates.

Lexigram's inflectional dictionary covers tens of thousands of lemmas and millions of inflected forms, and will conjugate a verb through tense and mood or decline a noun and adjective for you — exactly the lookup Greek learners need most, given how much of the grammar sits in endings. A synonyms-and-definitions dictionary sits alongside it. The interface is in Greek, aimed largely at Greek schoolchildren, and some sections push you toward an account.

A franchise of local producers filming unscripted street interviews, each episode subtitled in the target language and English, which is the closest free thing to hearing how people genuinely speak. All YouTube episodes are free; membership adds transcripts, vocabulary lists and exercises. Real-speed unscripted speech is hard early on — start with the slower 'Super Easy' episodes if you are below B1.

One-on-one video lessons from roughly $5–30/hr depending on the language and the teacher's credentials. It is the single fastest way to get real speaking practice, and the reason most self-study plans stall is that they skip this step. Community tutors are cheap conversation partners; professional teachers are worth it if you want structure, homework and error correction.

100,000+ tutors across 120+ subjects, with a free replacement if your first tutor is a bad fit. The main structural difference from italki is that Preply pushes weekly lesson subscriptions and takes a large commission from tutors, which some learners consider a reason to prefer italki. Worth comparing side by side for your language — prices, availability and tutor quality differ per market rather than per platform.

Foreign Service Institute, Peace Corps and DLI materials — full textbooks plus hundreds of hours of audio — are public domain and hosted here for free across dozens of languages. The depth is extraordinary and the FSI Basic courses take diplomats to professional working proficiency, which no consumer app attempts. The recordings are from the 1960s–80s, the drills are relentless, and some vocabulary is dated (Cold War era), so they suit disciplined self-studiers, not casual learners.

A reading app built around finishing complete books: you pick a story at your level, tap a word or reveal a sentence's English translation when you get stuck, and it saves the words you looked up. There is one complete free book in every language and you can read a free chapter on the website without installing anything; the rest of the 1,100-book library is paid. The library is uneven: Ukrainian, Indonesian and French have dozens of stories, while Icelandic, Estonian and several Balkan languages have one or two. It is not the same as Storyglot's European Portuguese readers (storyglot.com), which are a separate project with the same name.

Free on desktop, Android and web; the iOS app is a one-off paid purchase that funds the project. The interface is dated and the options are overwhelming at first, but nothing beats it for retaining vocabulary over years. Most effective when you stop grinding premade decks and start mining sentences from things you actually read or watch.

Built-in correction tools let partners fix your messages inline, and the social 'moments' feed gets you corrections from strangers without arranging a call. Free for the core exchange; VIP adds more translations and simultaneous target languages. The persistent caveat is that a fair share of users treat it as a dating app, and exchange partners are unreliable — it works best once you already have some output to correct.

Import podcasts, articles or ebooks, tap unknown words for definitions, and LingQ tracks your known-word count over time. The free tier caps how many saved words you can keep, so serious use means paying (~$13/month or less annually). The interface is clunky and the built-in SRS is weaker than Anki, but the reading-plus-audio workflow with 50+ languages is hard to replicate elsewhere.

Built on Tatoeba sentences, it drills words in context by frequency band across 50+ languages and 170+ language pairings, with a genuinely generous free tier. It explicitly starts where beginner apps end, so it is the natural 'what now?' answer for someone who finished a Duolingo tree. Sentences are crowd-sourced and occasionally awkward or oddly specific, and it teaches nothing about grammar explicitly.

Same idea as HelloTalk but with vetted profiles and one-to-one partner matching rather than a social feed, which makes it noticeably less spammy in practice. Texting partners is free; calling them in the app is part of the paid Pro tier, and the app also sells paid tutors. Both apps live or die on finding one or two committed partners, so expect to message a lot of people before anything sticks.

The heavyweight immersion toolkit: one-click sentence mining with audio, screenshot and definitions, plus its own SRS and known-word tracking, for 11 languages including Japanese, Korean, Mandarin and the major European ones. A 10-day free trial then a subscription (roughly $10/month). Overkill unless you are committed to a sentence-mining routine — if that describes you it saves hours a week, otherwise Language Reactor's free tier is enough.

A streaming service where every show has clickable dual subtitles and saved words become flashcards, covering 15 languages with apps on phone, Roku and TV. It solves the 'what do I watch' problem for languages where Netflix's catalogue is thin. The library is much smaller than a mainstream streamer and it is subscription-only — if you already pay for Netflix, Language Reactor's free tier does most of the same job.

Over 100 language editions; the English edition alone has millions of entries covering hundreds of languages, with IPA, declension and conjugation tables, etymologies and usage notes that commercial apps usually paywall. The etymology sections are quietly one of the best vocabulary-retention tools available. Being crowd-sourced, coverage is uneven and rare entries can be wrong — cross-check anything unusual against a native-language dictionary.

Type a word or phrase and it plays back real YouTube clips of people saying it in context, across 25 languages plus sign languages, so you get natural intonation and regional variation rather than an isolated dictionary recording. Free, donation-supported, no account needed. Complements Forvo: Forvo for single words, YouGlish for phrases and prosody.

A detailed staged roadmap for acquiring a language through massive comprehensible input — what to do at each stage, when to start output, how to mine sentences — with a free tracker, starter courses and an active Discord. The roadmap and community are free; vocabulary decks, advanced courses and coaching are paid. It is opinionated to the point of dogma about avoiding early output and translation, so take the framework and ignore the purity rules if they do not fit your goals.

A collaborative, Creative Commons-licensed corpus you can search for real usage of a word or download in bulk to build your own decks. It is the raw material behind Clozemaster and countless Anki decks rather than a study tool in itself. Sentences are contributed by volunteers, so quality and naturalness vary — prefer sentences from native contributors and cross-check anything surprising.

A browser extension plus web reader covering 100+ languages: click a word or drag across a phrase, get an inline translation, and it becomes a flashcard automatically. The free tier gives unlimited single-word translations but caps phrases and AI explanations at 10 a day; Premium is $6/month. Simpler and cheaper than LingQ or Migaku if all you want is frictionless reading of articles and ebooks.

Thousands of public-domain books recorded by volunteers, downloadable as MP3 or M4B with no account. Pairing a LibriVox recording with the matching free Project Gutenberg text gives you a full audiobook-plus-ebook study set for nothing. Two caveats: recordings are volunteer-quality and vary a lot reader to reader, and everything is out of copyright, so the language is often a century old — great for literature, poor for modern slang.

The default place to ask 'is X app worth it' or 'what should I do at B1' and get answers from people who have actually done it, plus per-language subreddits (r/Spanish, r/LearnJapanese, r/French) with far better resource lists. The wiki and FAQ head off most beginner questions. Expect strong ideological camps — comprehensible-input purists versus textbook people — so read a few threads before taking any single answer as settled.

Modern assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) will roleplay a scenario at your level, correct your writing with explanations, generate graded reading, and hold voice conversations — endlessly patient and available at 2am, which no tutor is. Free tiers are enough for text practice; voice modes generally need a subscription. The caveats are real: models are noticeably weaker and more error-prone in lower-resource languages, they tend to produce bland textbook register rather than how people actually speak, and they will not correct you unless you explicitly ask them to.

Around 6 million words recorded by native speakers across 400+ languages, usually with several accents per word so you can hear regional variation. Free to search on the site; the paid tiers are aimed at API users and bulk audio downloads. Indispensable for names, place names and anything a TTS voice would mangle — many learners wire it directly into Anki for card audio.

A Chrome extension that shows target-language and native subtitles simultaneously, lets you click any word for a definition, replay a line, and save phrases for review. The free tier already covers dual subs, dictionary lookups and the CEFR-graded video catalogue; Pro (about $6/month) adds machine translation, speech recognition and better AI lookups. It transforms passive Netflix time into study time, but you need enough of a base — roughly B1 — for subtitle mining to beat just watching.