For anyone losing their Greek
Keep your Greek — ten minutes a day, and it lasts
Most people who learn New Testament Greek lose it within a few years of their last class. Kanon Greek fixes that with a short daily ritual on a spaced-repetition engine: it reviews each word just before you’d forget it, so the vocabulary you worked for stays.
Why Greek fades
It’s use it or lose it. Without regular review, the forgetting curve takes the vocabulary first — and once the words go, the text you fought to read closes back up.
The fix: spaced repetition
A scheduler shows each word at growing intervals, right at the edge of forgetting. Every successful review pushes the next one further out — the opposite of cram-and-lose.
A bounded daily session, not a backlog
Each day is finite — your due words plus a few new ones — and it plays like a game, so you come back. No guilt-inducing pile of overdue cards.
Already lost it? Start where you are
The engine meets you at your level and rebuilds from the most frequent words up. The ~300 most common words make up roughly 80% of the running text of the Greek New Testament, so a little goes a long way.
Frequently asked
- How long does it take each day?
- About ten minutes — a short, bounded session. Even five minutes counts.
- I’ve forgotten most of my Greek — can I still use it?
- Yes. It rebuilds from high-frequency vocabulary and schedules everything for retention.
- How is this different from Anki?
- Same retention idea, but no decks to build, a finite daily session, and games instead of bare cards.
- Is it free?
- The daily puzzles are free; full free-practice and the archive are part of membership.
Start with today’s puzzle — free.
A new set of Koine Greek puzzles every day. No account needed to play.