Georgian · ქართული
Directory 9 resource listings . A short orientation and a solid starting list.
Honest start for Georgian: pick one beginner course or community program from the list, add 10–15 minutes of listening most days, and bookmark one reference. Ignore the rest of the directory until those three habits are alive. Learn the writing system with the script trainer before heavy vocabulary. Use the First 500 trainer for high-frequency words. Last reviewed 2026-08-01
About Georgian
- Language family
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Kartvelian (South Caucasian) Source: Glottolog
- Where it's spoken
- Georgia, in the South Caucasus
- Speakers
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roughly 4 million speakers Estimate source: Ethnologue (SIL International)
- Writing
- Georgian
Georgian belongs to the small Kartvelian family, unrelated to the Indo-European, Turkic, or Semitic languages that surround the Caucasus region, and its nearest relatives — Svan, Mingrelian, and Laz — are themselves distinct enough to not be mutually intelligible with it. It uses its own Mkhedruli script, one of only a handful of alphabets in the world unrelated to any other, and has a written literary tradition going back roughly 1,500 years. Its grammar is known for a complex, ergative-patterned verb system that can encode subject, object, and indirect object information all within a single verb.
Speaker counts are approximate orders of magnitude for learners, not census figures. Family labels follow Glottolog-style classification; vitality notes (when shown) follow UNESCO WAL / Ethnologue-style framing and should be re-checked for program planning.
How to start
- Learn the writing system first with the script trainer — meet a few characters, match them, then recall.
- Pick one free course (or free-with-upgrades) below and finish a short beginner unit before hopping apps.
- Bookmark one dictionary or grammar reference and look up every unknown word for a week.
- Add 10–15 minutes of listening most days — news, radio, or a teaching channel.
- Drill vocabulary with First 500 words.
- When ready, use a tutor marketplace listing below for short speaking sessions.
Practice on this site
Deep links into trainers and drills that already cover Georgian.
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| Resource | Type | Levels | Cost | Verified |
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Civil.ge (Georgian edition when available)
Georgia news with Georgian-language pages.
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reading | B1-C2 | free | — |
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Wikipedia Georgian
Open reading practice by topic in the language's own Wikipedia edition.
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reading | A2-C2 | free | — |
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