The Fastest Way to Learn Georgian in 2026

The fastest way to learn Georgian is to spend most of your study time on Georgian you can mostly understand, which is called comprehensible input. The plan below names something to read or hear at each of six levels and suggests how to split an hour of study. Georgian has 33 letters of its own, so the plan opens with a row for learning them.

Find the level that sounds like you. Its bar shows one suggested way to spend an hour of study.

1. Start With the Letters

   I can't read the Georgian letters yet.

   • Learn the letters 25 min
   • Listen 35 min

   Learn the 33 letters in small groups, and say each one aloud. Bubblegum's Georgian Alphabet course gives every letter a picture, and EasyGeorgian has free letter practice. Replay the popping letters, like კ, a few extra times.

   • EasyGeorgian's alphabet practice
   • Bubblegum's Georgian Alphabet course
2. Level 1

   I can sound out words but not much else.

   • Read and listen 33 min
   • Review 17 min
   • Speak 10 min

   Play the 50LANGUAGES lessons as you read them, and say each short line out loud. Read a Level 1 picture book on StoryWeaver, and read it again a few days later.

   • 50LANGUAGES lessons
   • StoryWeaver's Georgian books
3. Level 2

   I can read simple sentences.

   • Read and listen 38 min
   • Review 12 min
   • Speak 10 min

   Watch a Georgian Stories video: it plays first with English captions, then in Georgian only. Read one LingQ Mini Story a session, and tap the words you don't know.

   • Georgian Stories
   • LingQ Mini Stories
4. Level 3

   I can read short messages and simple stories in the past tense.

   • Read and listen 40 min
   • Review 8 min
   • Retell a story 12 min

   Listen to an episode of EasyGeorgian's podcast course, then read its transcript and listen again. In past sentences, look for the ending on the doer, like ბავშვმა. Then retell the episode out loud to someone who speaks Georgian.

   • EasyGeorgian's podcast course
5. Level 4

   I can read longer texts about everyday life.

   • Read and listen 43 min
   • Check details 5 min
   • Talk it over 12 min

   Move on to LingQ's Georgian courses, like JAMnews and short interviews, and replay any part you miss. Choose one phrase from an interview that you could use this week, and say it to a person.

   • LingQ's Georgian courses
6. Level 5

   I can follow complex topics, but miss some details.

   • Read and listen 46 min
   • Check details 4 min
   • Explain your view 10 min

   Read a news story on a topic you know well, and look up only the words that stop you. When a verb form puzzles you, open its table in Wiktionary. Then explain the story in Georgian to a tutor or a friend.

   • Interpressnews
7. Level 6

   I can read almost anything.

   • Read and listen 48 min
   • Discuss and write 12 min

   Read longer articles and a Georgian book you chose yourself, with no translation. Then write a short summary, and ask a good Georgian reader to mark what sounds wrong.

   • Interpressnews

Move up a level when your lessons start to feel easy, and move back down if you lose the thread by the third line.

In Bubblegum, Poppy, your AI tutor, writes each Georgian lesson for your level and your goal, and she'll explain a line when you ask. The audio in Bubblegum lessons is made by AI, so add recordings of real people each week, like the videos on Speak Georgian.

The U.S. Foreign Service Institute puts Georgian in Category III, its group of hard languages with big differences from English. For that group it counts about 44 weeks, or 1,012 class hours, of full-time classes for English-speaking students to reach a working professional level in speaking and listening. It gives one figure for the whole category, with no separate number for Georgian.

Here is how long 1,012 hours takes at different amounts of study a week:

FSI students also study on their own for about 17 more hours a week, which this table leaves out. These are class hours for a professional level, so treat them as a rough guide. Time you spend reading and listening on your own counts too.

• 🧩Verbs With Many PartsOne Georgian verb can show who acts, who gets the action, when it happens and which way it goes, all at once. Meet each form inside a sentence, and open a verb table when a form puzzles you.
• ✍️The Doer Gets a New Ending in the PastWhen someone does something to something in the simple past, the doer gets the ending -მა: in ბავშვმა წიგნი წაიკითხა (the child read the book), ბავშვი (child) becomes ბავშვმა. Look for it when you read a past sentence.
• 🔊Popping SoundsLetters like კ stand for ejectives, consonants you say with a sudden burst of air. Say them slowly after a recording, and listen for them in real speech.
• 🗂️Starting With a Word ListA word list tells you what a word means, but not how it is used. Meet each new word in a full sentence, and the forms built from it begin to look familiar.