Greek Weekend Course in Berlin

Absolute beginners without any prior knowledge who want to learn Greek from scratch – for their next holiday, for family, for work or out of love for Greek culture.

You learn the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet and soon read your first words and signs. Along the way you practise pronunciation and stress, which Greek marks with an accent sign. You get to know the definite articles ο, η, το and the three genders, and you conjugate the most important verbs in the present tense, including είμαι (to be) and έχω (to have). This lets you introduce yourself, count, ask for directions and order in a taverna in Greek.

Learners with a solid foundation who master the alphabet and now want to expand their vocabulary and everyday communication systematically.

You talk about the past and the future: with the aorist you tell what you have experienced, with θα you express plans and intentions. You get to know the nominative, accusative and genitive cases and use possessive pronouns such as μου and σου as well as the short object pronouns. You describe your daily routine, your family and your home and handle typical situations such as visiting a doctor, asking for directions and booking trips with growing ease.

Advanced learners who can already get by in everyday life and now aim for more complex structures and more fluent speaking and reading.

You learn the distinction between ongoing and completed actions (aspect) that is central to Greek and choose confidently between the imperfect and the aorist. With the subjunctive after να you express wishes, intentions and necessities, and with the imperative you give instructions and advice. You link sentences with connectors such as επειδή, όμως and αν, compare with comparatives and superlatives and talk in detail about experiences, opinions and plans.

Upper-intermediate learners who want to hold more demanding conversations, read authentic texts and increasingly use Greek at work.

You master the passive voice of verbs ending in -ομαι and use participles ending in -μένος. With conditional sentences you talk about real and hypothetical situations, and with reported speech you convey what others have said. You discuss social and professional topics spontaneously and in a nuanced way, distinguish formal and informal registers and work through newspaper articles, reports and series with growing independence.

Very advanced learners who speak Greek fluently and want to refine their language further for university, work and demanding texts.

You understand long speeches, news broadcasts and specialist lectures even at fast speed and read demanding non-fiction and literary texts. You recognise elevated, written-language expressions that go back to older stages of the language and use them deliberately in formal texts. In negotiations, presentations and specialist discussions you express yourself precisely, idiomatically and with rhetorical impact.

Learners at the highest level who use Greek practically effortlessly in university, work and everyday life and want to master the final subtleties.

You understand practically everything you hear or read – from regional colouring and wordplay to literary texts. You summarise complex information from different sources and present arguments in a structured, incisive way. Your expression is spontaneous, highly fluent and differentiated; you handle fine shades of meaning, irony and cultural allusions with confidence. At this level you move through every situation – from a chat in the kafeneio to specialist conferences – as in your native language.