Greek books for beginners

6 public domain books in Greek with mostly everyday words and shorter sentences, CEFR A2-B1 by our estimate. Choose one and open it in Lingo7: the app shows a translation under every sentence, so you can read a real book sooner than you would on your own.

These books at a glance

Books
6 A2-B1
Length
15,920 to 62,804 words
Reading time
1 h 20 min to 5 h 14 min
Common words
76% of the text on average

The level is our estimate from how common the words are and how long the sentences run, not a test result. Common words are those used at least 10 times per million words of Greek (Zipf frequency 4 or higher, wordfreq data). Reading time assumes a native pace of 200 words a minute.

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