🇬🇷 The best podcasts for learning Greek

Mihalis Eleftheriou records real lessons with a real student and walks you through constructing the language yourself using cognates and logic — Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Turkish, Arabic and Swahili are covered. Completely free, no ads, no sign-up, funded by donations. The Spanish course in particular is one of the most recommended free resources anywhere; the trade-off is small vocabulary and no reading or writing practice.

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.

Mark Pentleton teaches a genuine student while you listen in, across French, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Portuguese, Japanese and Gaelic. The podcast seasons are free on any podcast app and are structured as a real curriculum rather than scattered episodes; the Academy sells premium lesson notes, video and bonus audio. Ideal commuting material for beginners through B1, and the Spanish and French series are the strongest.

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.

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.

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.

Dimitris and Artemis speak slowly and stick to a restricted vocabulary so that beginners can follow whole episodes in Greek without translation — the missing rung below the main Easy Greek show. Around 90 episodes and still running in August 2026. Free to listen; transcripts and vocabulary support come with the same membership as the main podcast. Because it is by design repetitive and narrow, it stops being useful once you are comfortably A2.