Seminary Greek courses are expensive, outdated, and mostly aimed at teaching you to pass an exam. 

Learning Greek through traditional educational institutions is in many ways broken. Most universities are modifying their programs to remove Greek as a degree requirement (even in graduate school programs) because they know students will not enter their programs if they have to sit in a class to take Greek. 

Many schools are trying to make up for this deficit by introducing short-form courses, usually over 3 or 4 weeks, often called something like “Gladiator Greek” or “Intensive Greek.” 

If it sounds painful, that’s probably because it is.

There’s got to be a better way to unlock the original language of the Greek New Testament. 

Learning Greek in bible colleges and seminary has not changed much in the last hundred years. You quit your job, leave your home, and go sit in a room to learn by rote memorization how to parse verbs and participles. Oh yeah, and you have to pay thousands of dollars to do it.

Here’s a link to the tuition breakdown of North America’s largest online seminary education provider . 

If you add up all the fees for that school, it will easily cost you 1800 USD plus taxes to take a single course.

That’s for a one-shot attempt at taking the course—and of course you will be primarily learning to take the course exam, for a course based on grammatical models from the 1800s (and this school is by no means special in this regard).

Learn to Read Koine Greek , by contrast, is a fraction of that price, at $297  $67 USD.

Plus:

        – You get lifetime access to the course lectures

        – You get lifetime access to the interactive quizzes to test your comprehension

        – You get lifetime access to the interactive translation exercises

        – You get lifetime access to the Q&A features—you can ask an expert in Koine Greek absolutely anything about anything in the language or about any text

        – You get lifetime access to  course updates!

Compare this with the fact that most seminary professors do not keep up on their reading of what is going on in Greek grammar research—and the professors who taught them probably didn’t either.

Is it still worth the trouble to learn Greek?

I’ve been in your shoes. I know exactly how it feels to want to be able to read the New Testament in it’s original language, and I also know how far off that goal can feel. 

Imagine how I feel today, when I don’t need to pick up a translation—I can read the New Testament in Greek.

It’s a liberating feeling.

It’s exactly the opposite of how you may feel right now, always having to rely on translations that never seem to agree.

And the translations always seem to be in disagreement when it comes to the most confusing passages you are trying to understand.

Reading them in Greek doesn’t solve all of the ambiguities of these texts, but it does allow you to pinpoint precisely where that ambiguity actually lies. It helps you see through different arguments and weigh the evidence for yourself.

This course is designed to get you from where you are now—with limited or no knowledge of Greek—to the place where you can begin to work through these passages on your own.

Is this course right for me?

If you cannot read Koine Greek, but want to learn, this is the course for you.

Many people study Greek in college, only to immediately forget everything they just studied.

Why?

Because they were not learning how to read; they were learning how to write an exam. 

If you want to leave that model of learning behind and instead learn the skill of reading an ancient language, then this course may be just what you are looking for.

If you have an education budget (official or not!), and you want to invest in a concrete skill, this is the course for you.

This course is unique on multiple levels, and offers you long-term value, and the opportunity to gain a highly rewarding skill that will change the way you look at ancient texts, and especially the New Testament, so your reading and study experience is never the same.

Will I have to memorize a lot?

No. This course is designed so that you can memorize as much or as little as you want . Below are the core components to memorize:

      – The alphabet and how it behaves

      – The 2 most typical sets of endings

      – How to recognize a phrase, a clause, and a function word, since these will be the key to understanding Greek sentences

You can learn whatever vocabulary you have time for (and you will pick up a lot in the exercises!).

I also avoid excessive details and labels.

There’s some complexity to grammar no matter how you cut it, but this course is completely oriented toward what you need to know to start reading.

So if you’re not concerned initially about learning all of the intricacies of the grammar (because you don’t need to write an exam), but just want to get started learning this life-changing skill, this course is for you.

What will I learn in this course?

You will…

        – Be able to distinguish major word types ~75% of the time, using typical endings

        – Learn the most common word endings (two paradigms or sets of endings)

        – Learn the word types (nominals, verbals, particles, participles, infinitives)

        – Learn the Greek alphabet and its sounds

        – Learn common phonological change patterns

        – Know how to find answers in order to continue learning

        – Appreciate the difference between glossing and translating

        – Read or decipher Greek texts

Can I learn anything from this if I have already taken a Greek course before?

I’m happy to say I think this is a truly unique Greek reading course (at least, it’s different from any Greek course I’ve ever heard of!).

I cover the basics, but I also offer new explanations of the grammar based on my ongoing research into the syntax and grammatical systems of Greek. 

Because I’m actively researching and reading research in this area, I will periodically update this course with new videos and new additions. If you purchase this course at any time, I will notify you of new material as it comes out. 

Even if you’ve studied Koine Greek before, you’ve never heard it explained quite like this.

If you’re an instructor , this may be the course your students need to reach their reading goals.

The best part?

All of the lectures , interactive quizzes, and interactive translation exercises will be there for your reference.

You can go back and listen to a 5- or 10-minute explanation of some concept as a refresher any time you need to. 

And YES, you will have lifetime access to this course as well as to all updates I make on it!

You will also have access to a comments section on the course home page, and on every individual lesson so you can ask questions and get feedback from me at any time.

Guarantee

I’m convinced this course will get you beginning to read Greek for yourself.

If you finish this course, I will sit down with you on a video call and help you work through whichever part of the course you found most challenging.

If you’re still not able to start working through Greek texts, I’ll let you return the course as long as you do so within a 60-day time frame. After that, the course is yours forever—which means you can always step away for a bit and then come back to it as your schedule permits.

Click here to sign up for lifetime access to this course now!  ($297 $67 USD)

In the meantime, feel free to start the course with free access to the first lessons.