Your weekly study plan
Fourteen weeks — one per lesson, plus a consolidation week for articles and the imperfect tense — starting . Each week follows the same rhythm — new material, drilling, review, and a light day — so the habit stays easy to keep. Where you are right now is highlighted below.
How to practice each day
Little and often beats marathon sessions
20–30 focused minutes daily works better than 3 hours once a week. Greek's declensions and endings need repeated, spaced exposure to stick — that's why every week loops back over everything you've learned so far, not just the new lesson.
Say it out loud
Modern Greek pronunciation is very regular once you know the rules from Lessons 1–2 — use that. Reading a sentence silently teaches recognition; saying it aloud (and better, recording yourself) teaches recall and pronunciation together.
Generate before you check
Try to produce the answer (conjugate the verb, decline the noun, recall the word) before looking it up. Struggling briefly to retrieve something and then confirming it is what actually moves it into long-term memory — just re-reading the grammar page doesn't.
Use the quiz/flashcard tools here
The Practice page lets you filter by lesson, shuffle, and flip cards both directions (Greek→English and English→Greek) — do both directions, since recognizing a word and producing it are different skills. It also has a dedicated Conjugation drill (for the imperfect tense) and Articles quiz — use those on the days below that focus on grammar rather than vocabulary.
How to memorize efficiently
- Spaced repetition: the plan already re-tests older lessons every week — but if a specific word keeps slipping, jot it on a small list and review it daily until it sticks, then drop it back into the weekly rotation.
- Learn nouns with their article. Always memorize ο δρόμος, not just δρόμος — the gender is half the word in Greek, and it's much harder to retrofit later.
- Group by pattern, not just by list. Instead of memorizing 20 unrelated nouns, notice that all -ος masculine nouns behave the same way in the plural, and all -α/-η feminine nouns behave the same way. You're memorizing a handful of patterns, not hundreds of individual forms.
- Make it personal. Where a lesson gives you the tools (family words, colors, body parts, days of the week), immediately apply them to your own life — your own family, your own room, your own week. Sentences about things you actually see are stickier than textbook examples.
- Interleave old and new. Mixing Lesson 3 flashcards in with Lesson 9 review is deliberately harder than blocking them separately — and that extra difficulty is what makes the memory stronger.
The 14 weeks
After Lesson 13
Your textbook keeps going past Lesson 13. Once you upload the next set of pages, add matching weeks here (same rhythm: new vocab → grammar → exercises → speaking → quiz → mixed review → rest) so the plan and the reference book keep growing together.