Free Georgian alphabet and first words

What's inside

• The alphabetAll 33 letters with a name, a sound and an example word. The five puff and pop pairs, like ქარი, wind, and კარი, door, the throaty ღ and ხ, and why there are no capital letters to learn.
• How words workNo gender, not even in pronouns: ის is he and she. No a or the, the verb often last, შენ or თქვენ, ბატონო and ქალბატონო, to be: მე ვარ, შენ ხარ, ის არის, and a smile at გვფრცქვნი.
• 239 words, then show wordsგამარჯობა and its reply გაგიმარჯოს, მადლობა, why დედა is mum and მამა is dad, numbers in twenties, ხაჭაპური, ხინკალი and ჩურჩხელა, places and verbs. Then ვაიმე!, გენაცვალე, the supra and გაუმარჯოს!, what to call people, and ten sentences to read before you check.

How to use it

1. Read the alphabet page aloud, one row at a time. Keep it next to you while you read the rest.
2. Read the grammar page twice. You don't need to learn it, just to notice that ის is he and she, and that the verb knows who.
3. Learn five words a day. Cover the orange and grey lines on the last page, read each sentence aloud, then slide the paper down to check.
4. Watch something with Georgian subtitles in Kitsumi and hover any word to see what it means. გამარჯობა, კარგი and ვაიმე turn up in every scene.

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