🇬🇪 Georgian Recommended Learning Material

How to get phrases from the cloud onto your phone.

1. Download the Lingophant app from the app store
2. Go to the sharing tab and create an account
3. Unlock the phrases with the links below. Then download them to your phrasebook.
4. Find 30 minutes every day (public transport? toilet?) to memorise phrases from the Practice tab. Tap the number at the top, or “practice” and you will try to memorize 12 phrases.

Here are basic phrase sets for beginners. Watch the videos once and then practice the phrases. With a teacher you will create your own personalized phrase sets:

Download phrases onto your app for easy practicing

“Basic phrases GEO” – I shared a phrase set on the Lingophant App #lingophant

https://phrases.lingophant.com/a1d10302-d718-44a6-b4ac-d4dabae2f684/basic-phrases-geo

Use the link below to download phrases onto your app for easy practicing!

https://phrases.lingophant.com/478740bf-da71-4c63-b9b2-034ebbfae64d/clarifications-geo

Use the link below to download phrases onto your app for easy practicing!

https://phrases.lingophant.com/83694b66-1243-4be0-bbac-bdf8de12774a/learning-languages-geo

Download phrases onto your app for easy practicing

https://phrases.lingophant.com/096f83f4-4556-4e26-900f-be86de7b4b6d/introducing-yourself-geo

Use the link below to download phrases onto your app for easy practicing!

https://phrases.lingophant.com/6e66b3bd-d32b-4897-98df-3b308fa13b8f/likes-and-dislikes-geo

Download phrases onto your app for easy practicing

https://phrases.lingophant.com/b65d22a0-68e4-48aa-9a22-2050dd46c4ca/opinions-and-prefrences-geo

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.

Main infos:

Georgian words do not have any fixed accent on a syllable. That means you cannot distinguish words from the rhythm of the language. So they kind of give you one long sausage and you have to figure out yourself where the words are.

Spanish, German, English, etc. all have this and it makes picking up bits and pieces of the language very difficult.

If you’re interested in languages, it might be very interesting to understand their system, because it is very old and not very standardized. It also makes it more difficult though. Some highlights:

• 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). 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.

Watch the following video 4-5 times, ideally on different days. There’s no better way to train your listening. It really works wonders to work with one video, focusing on both languages. There’s this meditation mindset you can get into, where your brain suddenly understands both languages at once. Try to stay there 2-3x for 30 minutes and you’ll really improve in: recognizing words, internalizing patterns, and getting to know expressions.

Afterwards you can listen to just the audio and check how much you’ve understood.

You can also write down words if you put the link to this page somewhere. And before you watch the video you go through those words.

Here’s also a transcript if you want to print and work with paper and audio.

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.

Georgia has amazing cinema that’s a bit absurdist and also won international prices

However, finding subtitles is rare, and even with subtitles is it hard to read for new learners. So see it more as a form of enjoying art than listening practice.

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

We can recommend lessons with Avtandil who’s quite interested in American politics. It’s good for conversations, but for a more experienced teacher we can recommend Ana who is great teacher that understands morphology well.

Alternatively, you can look on iTalki for Georgian teachers, and explain them how you want to use the app. You can use the for teachers page so they can learn how it’s used: https://lingophant.com/for-teachers-2/

Easily buy a 5-lesson pack for 50€, and learn personalized phrases that you can practice afterwards on the app.

If you’re interested, text us on WhatsApp, and we will get you in touch directly with her. +995 511 742 506