🇬🇷 The best tools for learning Greek

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.

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.

Enter a Greek verb and get the full paradigm — tenses, aspects, moods and persons — with an English gloss beside each form, which makes the aorist/imperfective distinction much easier to see than a textbook table does. Free and needs no account. It is a lookup tool only: it will not explain why Greek splits aspect the way it does, so pair it with a grammar when the pattern rather than the form is what's confusing you.

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.

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.

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.

A 501(c)(3) nonprofit: you shadow native audio, record your own version, and a real human coach returns feedback — 10 free submissions a month, unlimited for about $20/month, with full scholarships for anyone who needs one. Covers French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and English. It only fixes pronunciation and delivery, so it complements rather than replaces conversation practice.

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.

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 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.

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.