I know that you are used to me announcing projects and not exactly completing them. It’s a character flaw. I’m working on it.

Over on my patreon I have begun releasing, one a week, short 100-ish word stories. These stories are composed with very restricted vocabulary, and predominantly use the present tense and a handful of participle.

They aren’t designed to be high literature. They are designed to use a limited vocabulary and limited grammar, and be part of a package aimed at bringing a learner to A1 competency according to the CEFR. They won’t do that job by themselves, but they are a building block of a larger project which again I’ll speak more about in coming weeks.

The aim is to do 100 of these stories, and so that’s 10,000+ words of easy Greek for beginner learners. Which is about the same as reading all the main storyline of volume 1 of Athenaze, if you wanted a comparison. Except that it’s kept at a simple level, with restricted vocabulary and grammar.

Whenever I finish all 100, I’ll do some additional work on them and stick them in a book, for those who like that kind of thing. And then perhaps work on another 100 stories, slightly longer, at an A2 level, with slightly more grammar and vocabulary. But that’s a 2026 problem.