Greek
How to learn Greek at the Language Centre including pathways, timetables and fees.
Fees and funding
Please click on the link below for information on our fees.
Enrolment is first-come, first-served. If the course on which you would like to enrol is fully booked, we operate a first-come, first-served waiting list system. Simply click on the Join the Waiting List button alongside the course of your choice and we will email you if a space becomes available.
If you need to learn a language to support your studies, you can ask your college, department or faculty to sponsor you via our Priority Funding scheme. You'll need to seek permission from your tutor/supervisor, obtain the email address of the financial signatory in your college/department/faculty, and click on the link to the Priority Funding Application Form below. Priority Funding is not available for Fast Track courses. See our course handbook for more information. NB Priority Funding applications are now closed for Michaelmas term.
Colleges will consider refunding students up to half the Fast Track course fees on completion of the course at the end of Trinity term. Please contact your college to find out more about their arrangements before you start your course. A form to record the agreement between a student and their college of their eligibility for the reimbursement scheme is available for students to download below: it should not be returned to the Language Centre.
GENERAL PATHWAY
- Wide variety of Stages available, from beginners up
- Term by term commitment
- Taught in weeks 2-7 every term (part 1 in Michaelmas, part 2 in Hilary and part 3 in Trinity)
- Classes per week: 1
- Length of class: 2 hours
- Total hours of tuition per term: 12
- Expected hours of self-guided study learning outside the classroom (supported by Canvas, the University’s new Virtual Learning Environment): 12
- Most popular courses are also available in a Week 9 Intensive format
- Entry: first-come, first-served
- Fully-funded Priority places available for students sponsored by their college/department (see Priority Funding box on this page for further information)
- Certificates of course completion and attendance are available, please see the course handbook for conditions
WEEK 9 INTENSIVE PATHWAY
Short on time...?
We will run our most popular courses in an Intensive format in Week 9. Enrolment for these courses will open in Week 6. Join our mailing list to receive an enrolment reminder.
Further resources
Library shelfmark: GR
At Oxford
- Greek at Oxford
- OXAM Digital copies of most of the official examination papers (including the Honours School Examination for Modern Languages) presented by the University of Oxford. Please note: access is limited to those in the Oxford domain.
- The last five years of the listening comprehension and discourse topics examinations are available on WebLearn They also are in print in the library with audio materials available for the listening comprehension examination.
- Oxford University Greek Society
General
- BBC Greek no longer updated but offers some online course
- Filoglossia Modern Greek learning resources for beginners, with audio
- Learn Modern Greek Basic vocabulary, phrases and grammar for beginners
- Greek Grammar A reference resource for intermediate and advanced students
- The Hellenic National Corpus
- The Hellenism Network Site devoted to Greek life and culture
- In.gr is a useful searchable catalogue of Greek sites and includes links to radio, TV and on-line newspapers and magazines
- Krypros learn Greek several levels
- NOSTOS Hellenic Cyber Centre Links to Greek news, and many other sites associated with Greek culture
- wikibook
Dictionaries
- English-Greek Dictionary Gives Greek dictionary definitions for words entered in English
- Lexilogos Greek dictionary
- Online Greek dictionaries/grammars List of dictionaries and other language resources for students of Greek or Greek speaking language learners
- Word Reference dictionary
- Dictionary of idioms List of idiomatic expressions or words and their English equivalents drawn from English language newspapers and magazines
Grammar
- Greek Grammar A list of general grammatical points with illustrations
Listening
- Greek Radio from the BBC World Service
Culture
- Acropolis Museum
- Historical Museum of Crete available in English or Greek
- National Archeology Museum
- National Gallery Athens
- Guide to Ancient Greek pottery
- Rebetiko wikipedia page (there is also the film Rembetiko available in the library)
Media
If you can't find the media you want, try our multilingual page
The library's Netvibes page offers you the latest news
- Print
- Kathimerini
- edromos
- Η Αυγή Daily newspaper published in Athens
- Ελεύθερος Τύπος Daily newspaper
- Η Καθημερινή Daily morning newspaper
- Νέα και Daily newspaper
- Naftemporiki Daily financial newspapers
- Πρωταθλητής Greek daily sports newspaper
- Το Ποντίκι Weekly newspaper
- Πρώτο Θέμα Weekly newspaper
- Radio
- Greek Radio from the BBC
- Κρήτη Music of Crete
- Μέντα 88 Greek laïko and art music
- Ραδιόφωνο 24/7 News and talk
- Κανάλι Ένα Piraeus Municipal radio station with news and talk
- Κόσμος 93.6 Foreign jazz and world music
- Television
Useful links
Blackwell's offers our students 15% off all foreign language textbooks and literature, and promises to match any cheaper prices that students find elsewhere. They will also guarantee student buy backs for all texts bought from them.
