Levels describe what you can read, not how long you have studied. Start at the level where a passage feels almost easy, then move up when it stops slowing you down. If you are not sure where you sit, read the example on each card below and stop at the first one that makes you work.

A0Starter
What you can read in Greek at A0, our starter level below official CEFR A1: extremely short, repeating sentences built from a tiny core vocabulary, with an example passage and study tips.
Example
Η γάτα είναι μαύρη. Η γάτα είναι κουρασμένη. Η μαύρη γάτα κοιμάται.
The cat is black. The cat is tired. The black cat is sleeping.
Vocabulary: Roughly the 100–150 most common Greek words, plus a few concrete nouns tied directly to the topic.
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A1Beginner
What you can read in Greek at CEFR level A1: simple present-tense stories, everyday vocabulary, and short sentences, with an example passage and study tips.
Example
Η Μαρία μένει στην Αθήνα. Κάθε πρωί πίνει καφέ και διαβάζει ένα βιβλίο.
Maria lives in Athens. Every morning she drinks coffee and reads a book.
Vocabulary: Roughly 500–800 of the most frequent Greek words.
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A2Elementary
What you can read in Greek at CEFR level A2: past and future tenses, longer everyday stories, and connected sentences, with an example passage and study tips.
Example
Χθες πήγαμε στη θάλασσα. Ο ήλιος έλαμπε και το νερό ήταν ζεστό. Αύριο θα πάμε πάλι.
Yesterday we went to the sea. The sun was shining and the water was warm. Tomorrow we will go again.
Vocabulary: Roughly 1,000–1,500 words, including everyday verbs in three tenses.
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B1Intermediate
What you can read in Greek at CEFR level B1: multi-paragraph stories, opinions and explanations, and subjunctive constructions, with an example passage and study tips.
Example
Όταν ήμουν παιδί, περνούσαμε τα καλοκαίρια στο νησί. Θυμάμαι ακόμα τη μυρωδιά της θάλασσας και τις φωνές των ψαράδων το πρωί.
When I was a child, we spent the summers on the island. I still remember the smell of the sea and the voices of the fishermen in the morning.
Vocabulary: Roughly 2,000–3,000 words; you can often guess new words from context.
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B2Upper intermediate
What you can read in Greek at CEFR level B2: complex narratives, argumentative texts, idiomatic language, and most native content, with an example passage and study tips.
Example
Αν και είχε αποφασίσει να μην ξαναγυρίσει στο χωριό, κάτι μέσα του τον τραβούσε πίσω: ίσως οι αναμνήσεις, ίσως απλώς η ανάγκη να κλείσει έναν λογαριασμό με το παρελθόν.
Although he had decided never to return to the village, something inside pulled him back: perhaps the memories, perhaps simply the need to settle a score with the past.
Vocabulary: Roughly 4,000–6,000 words, including common idioms and collocations.
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C1Advanced
What you can read in Greek at CEFR level C1: virtually any modern text, from literary fiction to essays and technical writing, with an example passage and study tips.
Example
Η γλώσσα, έλεγε ο παππούς του, δεν είναι απλώς εργαλείο· είναι πατρίδα. Όποιος τη μιλά, ό,τι κι αν λέει το διαβατήριό του, κουβαλά μέσα του ένα κομμάτι αυτού του τόπου.
Language, his grandfather used to say, is not merely a tool; it is a homeland. Whoever speaks it, whatever their passport says, carries within them a piece of this land.
Vocabulary: 8,000+ words, plus the morphological instinct to parse unfamiliar compounds on sight.
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