Daily Dose of Greek and Hebrew: Two Minutes a Day, Free

Most people who abandon Biblical Greek do not abandon it in the first week. They abandon it in the second year, after the course ends and nothing replaces the discipline the classroom used to impose. The grammar was learned; the habit never was.

Daily Dose of Greek exists to solve that specific problem. Founded by Rob Plummer, professor of New Testament interpretation, it delivers a two-minute video, five days a week, working through a single verse of the Greek New Testament. That is the whole idea, and its modesty is the point.

Why two minutes is the right length

A thirty-minute lesson requires a decision. A two-minute video does not: it fits between the coffee and the commute, and what requires no decision survives a busy season. Language retention depends on frequency far more than on duration, and a habit that costs two minutes is a habit that lasts years.

The videos are screen recordings. The verse appears in Greek, and Plummer parses it aloud, explaining the forms and the syntactical decisions as he goes. Over months the viewer accumulates something a grammar cannot supply: repeated exposure to real sentences, in sequence, with a competent reader thinking out loud.

More than the daily video

The site also hosts full introductory video lectures for those starting from zero, which means a beginner can use the same platform as a course and then stay for the maintenance. There is a companion Daily Dose of Hebrew doing the same work for the Old Testament, verse by verse.

Everything is free. There is no tier, no course upsell behind the daily videos, and the archive remains open. For a resource of this quality the absence of a paywall is worth stating plainly.

How to use it well

The temptation is to watch passively, which yields almost nothing. The following sequence turns it into real practice.

• Read before you watch. Open the verse yourself, attempt the parsing, and only then start the video. The value lies in the gap between your reading and his.
• Subscribe by email. Letting the verse arrive removes the daily decision to go looking for it, which is where most streaks die.
• Keep a failure list. Write down every form you misparsed. After a month the list stops being random and starts showing your actual weakness, usually a specific verb stem.
• Pair it with a text you preach. If you are working through a book on Sundays, read that book in Greek alongside the daily verse. Motivation follows use.
• Add the Hebrew once Greek is stable. Two languages at once is how people end up with neither.

What it does not replace

This is maintenance, not formation — and the distinction matters. It will not teach you textual criticism, it will not walk you through the apparatus of the Nestle-Aland, and it will not substitute for a grammar consulted systematically. Someone who has never studied morphology will find the daily videos moving too fast to follow.

Used in its proper place, however, it solves the hardest problem in biblical languages, which is not learning them but keeping them — in conclusion, the grammar you studied for two years is preserved by two minutes a day, and lost without them.

Start today

Begin with today’s verse, then browse the introductory lectures if you are starting from the alphabet:

Daily Dose of GreekDaily Dose of Hebrew

In this section

• Alpha with Angela: A Free Koine Greek Video Course, Openly Licensed
• Bill Mounce: Free Greek Tools from the Author of Basics of Biblical Greek
• Perseus Digital Library: The Free Greek Lexicon Every Exegete Should Know
• Animated Hebrew: Thirty-Five Hours of Free Biblical Hebrew Lectures
• Sefaria: The Free Hebrew Library, with Brown-Driver-Briggs