🇬🇪 Georgian Recommended Learning Material

Regarding the script, you can learn it with this video and practicing phrases. While the video gives you associations for each letter, you can really learn the alphabet while practicing. When you see the Georgian letters on the card, you can go to the card settings and switch the alphabet.

No need to learn how to write by hand (we cut out the boring and annoying parts).

The basics of the grammar:

Here are two introductory videos about the grammar. Under the grammar section below, we have two more longer and more elaborate videos that fully introduce the morphology pattern and the cases system. Especially the morphology one is useful when trying to remember words in Georgian.

Here ‘s about the two ways to construct verbs, and use of suffixes.

More about suffixes, and information about pronouns.

Extra infos:

Georgian words do not have any fixed accent on a syllable. Spanish, German, Russian, English, etc. all have this and it makes separating words easier for your brain.

In Georgian this means that you cannot distinguish words from the rhythm of the language. It’s one long melodic sausage and you have to ✂️ cut the words yourself.

It’s interesting because it is very old and not very standardized. Which makes it more difficult to learn.

• No genders of words (not even between he/she in a sentence).
• Verbs can contain up to three actors/objects.
• An elaborate directional prefix system for turning verbs into the past or future. E.g. Ga-mo-vatskhob. I will bake it. ga = out of. mo = towards me or you. So I’m taking it out of the heat. (more details: v-a-tskh-ob. v = 1st person. -a- version maker for action onto something. -tskh- is the root of hot like tskhela. and -ob is the present and future ending). For the past tense we say ga-mo-vatskh-e. We replace future/present ending -ob with past ending -e. Complex? We have a series of 20 shorts that explain this.
• Pronunciation is relatively simple, because it’s phonetic so you pronounce every letter.
• The keyboard is identical to the English keyboard, so you can write much faster than you can read.

How to get phrases from the cloud onto your phone.

1. Download the Lingophant app.
2. Go to the sharing tab and create an account.
3. Unlock the phrases with the links below. Then download them onto your phone.
4. Find 30 minutes every day to memorize phrases.

Here are basic phrase sets for beginners. A teacher can create personalized phrase sets just for you during a lesson:

Listening-reading is a method used by experienced learners. We’re gonna show you step by step how to do it. Read more about it here…

In general it’s about watching the same video 4-5 times, ideally on different days. You focus on both languages.

There’s this meditation mindset you can get into, where your brain suddenly understands both languages at once. You’ll improve recognizing words, internalizing patterns, and getting to know expressions.

Here we go, just follow along for the first 36 minutes:

Come back in a few days, and now we’re going to review. Just follow along. Soon you’ll understand A LOT of it.

Alright, and then the third and final round. Let’s see if you can already follow along without subtitles.

That’s it. Here’s a shorter version, for reviewing in the future! Also there’s an audio recording and a transcript if you want to print it.

If you want more videos to listen to, you can support us and buy our course here:
https://courses.lingophant.com/courses/introductory-program-georgian/lectures/56625905

Georgian recently got automatic transcripts on YouTube. However, the script is still in Georgian which makes it a bit more difficult.

With the Google Chrome extension “LanguageReactor” installed you can add double subtitles to any YouTube videos. And they pause playing and translate words when you hover your mouse over them.

Here’s how to work with videos:

• At first read the transcript so you know what’s coming.
• Then read along in English while listening to Russian words. Try to connect what you hear to what you read.
• You can switch at any time to reading along in Russian, though it’s more for when you’ve watched the videos 2-3 times already.

Here are recommended resources:

• Little car trips with Giorgi Danelia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nO_BjTOTPI
• Interesting discussions about politics with student Mate Gulua https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqiGdeZ0M9I
• Typical dude vlog that has their own chips brand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-vri_o92A0

Don’t forget that you can reduce speed to 75% as well.

This should be already enough material here to keep you busy for more than 12 weeks. Pick your 10 videos and rewatch them later. It’s better to review old videos because you already know the meaning and can settle your vocabulary a bit. Especially if you copy vocabulary to you note with links.

Here are our Georgian grammar videos about Morphology and the Cases:

Buy a 5-lesson pack for 100€, and learn personalized phrases that you can practice afterwards on the app. Text us on WhatsApp, and really start learning this language +995 511 742 506. We will match you with one of our teacher that we think fits to you. We have teachers with years of experience, and just talking buddies.

You can also just directly book a lesson with Ana on preply, who understands morphology well.

Finally, you can also just ask an iTalki Georgian teacher, or friends to use the app. Our teachers page can show you how it’s used: https://lingophant.com/for-teachers-2/

We seriously think it’s difficult to learn words and phrases without our app.