Pack the words that matter. These are the 29 Georgian phrases that actually come up on a trip, from your first გამარჯობა to calling for help, grouped by situation and written with a simple pronunciation guide.
The most useful Georgian travel phrases cover greetings, politeness, directions, food, and emergencies. Learn a handful first: გამარჯობა (hello), თუ შეიძლება (please), გმადლობთ (thank you). This free tool groups 29 essential Georgian phrases by situation, each with a plain-English pronunciation, so you practice only what your trip needs.
All 29 phrases, grouped by situation.
A phrasebook gets you through the airport. Reading real Georgian books, with a tap for translation and native audio on every sentence, is how the words start to stick. Lingo7 turns a book a level above you into something you can actually read. Free to start.
Learn by situation, not alphabetically. Your memory files გამარჯობა next to the moment you would use it, so run through the greetings before you fly, the restaurant block on the way to dinner, and the emergency block once so it is there if you ever need it.
The pronunciation guide is written the way an English speaker would read it aloud, with the stressed syllable in capitals. It is a crutch, not the real sound. Say each phrase out loud a few times, and if you can, listen to a native speaker to fix the vowels that plain English spelling cannot capture.
Phrases get you to the country. What gets you fluent is meeting the same words again and again in context, which is exactly what reading does. Once თუ შეიძლება and გმადლობთ feel automatic, the next step is a real Georgian sentence, then a page, then a book. That is the whole idea behind reading in Lingo7.
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Start with greetings and politeness, then the phrases that solve a real problem: asking directions, ordering, paying, and getting help. On this page that is გამარჯობა (hello), თუ შეიძლება (please), გმადლობთ (thank you), and მიშველეთ! (help). Learn those few and you can be polite and safe almost anywhere.
In Georgian, hello is გამარჯობა (pronounced GAH-mar-joh-bah) and thank you is გმადლობთ (GMAHD-lobt). Add თუ შეიძლება for please and ნახვამდის for goodbye, and you have the words that carry most short exchanges with a shopkeeper, waiter, or stranger.
Point and ask politely with თუ შეიძლება (please). Restrooms are one of the few things worth memorizing word for word in Georgian before you go, so practice the phrase until it is automatic.
No, but a dozen Georgian phrases go a long way. Locals warm up fast when you open with გამარჯობა and გმადლობთ instead of English. You do not need grammar or fluency for a trip, just the survival set above. For anything past that, the fastest route to real Georgian is reading, which is exactly what Lingo7 is built for.