Texts in Georgian
Short texts in Georgian with a translation alongside and comprehension questions, levels A1–B1. The first ones need two or three hundred everyday words; the B1 texts need about three thousand. The translation stands next to it whole, not word by word: stopping at every other word tears the sentence apart.
All texts
- 📖An ordinary dayA1 · Hello. My name is Nino, and I live in Tbilisi. In the morning I drink coffee and eat…
- 📖At the marketA2 · On Saturday I go to the market with my family. The market is close to home, ten minutes…
- 📖The shop on SaturdayA2 · On Saturday I go to the grocery store. I take a basket and choose fruit. The market is…
- 📖The apartment on the second floorA1 · Our apartment is on the second floor. We have two rooms, a kitchen and a small balcony.…
- 📖At the pharmacyA2 · I feel bad today. My head hurts, and I have a runny nose. I went to the pharmacy and…
- 📖The four seasonsA2 · In Georgia there are all four seasons. In spring it's warm and it often rains. In summer…
- 📖Nino's workdayA2 · Nino is a teacher and works at a school. Her workday starts at eight o'clock. On Monday…
- 📖The lost suitcaseA2 · In summer I went to Batumi. I bought a one-way ticket, because I wanted to return by…
- 📖Grandma's gardenA2 · Grandma has a small garden in the village. There are apple trees, flowers and green grass…
- 📖My wardrobeA1 · There's a lot of clothes in my wardrobe. I have two pairs of black trousers, a white…
- 📖My friend GiorgiA2 · Giorgi is my old friend. He is a cheerful and kind person. He's very honest and never…
- 📖Sunday dinnerA2 · On Sunday the whole family has dinner together. Mom cooks the dishes in the kitchen, and…
- 📖I left my phone behindA2 · Last night I left my phone in a taxi, because I was in a hurry. When I got home, I logged…
- 📖Saturday in the cityA2 · On Saturday I went into the city, because I needed to make it to both the barbershop and…
- 📖My free timeA2 · My hobby is drawing, but I have little time, so mostly I draw on my day off. Every Friday…
- 📖New Year in our familyA2 · New Year is our biggest holiday, and every year we meet it in the village. Grandma…
- 📖Our yardA2 · We live at the edge of the city: we have a yard and a fence, and a mailbox hangs next to…
- 📖A week before the examA2 · A week is left before the chemistry exam, and I haven't started reviewing the material…
- 📖The monthly budgetA2 · At the start of every month we plan the family budget together and write the expenses in…
- 📖Two days in the hospitalA2 · On Monday morning my stomach started hurting and I got chills. I registered at reception…
- 📖The new jobB1 · I started looking for work two months ago and sent applications for five vacancies. At…
- 📖The new apartmentB1 · The apartment the realtor showed was close to the center and turned out to be furnished.…
- 📖The road to BatumiA2 · I rented a car for two weeks and in the morning set off toward Batumi. I fastened my seat…
- 📖The story of one postB1 · Yesterday in the news feed I read a headline that was very loud. The article named no…
- 📖The night incidentB1 · At night there was noise in the neighbor's yard, and soon the police arrived. It turned…
- 📖I'm not sureB1 · A friend suggested I go into business with him and asked for a week to think. On the one…
- 📖The day that shiftedB1 · That day I first needed to stop by the bank, and then I would have had to go to the…
- 📖My neighborA2 · An elderly man named Vakhtang lives in our building. He is of medium height, with gray…
- 📖Two weeks without wordsB1 · I quarreled with my brother over a simple misunderstanding, and for two weeks we didn't…
- 📖Grandma's recipeA2 · On Saturday we made lobio using grandma's recipe. First we peeled the vegetables: we…
- 📖The jacket that didn't fitB1 · In the mall I saw a beautiful jacket in a display window and went in. The seller said it…
- 📖The phone at the service centerB1 · On Monday the phone stopped charging, got hot and sometimes froze. First I looked through…
- 📖The night thunderstormA2 · The weather forecast promised us sunny days all week. On Thursday evening the air…
- 📖The new districtB1 · Last year we moved to the outskirts, where apartments are cheaper. The district is clean…
- 📖How I learn the languageB1 · Last year I signed up for Georgian courses, in a beginners' group. At first even the…
- 📖My grandfather's lifeA2 · Grandfather was born in a small village at the foot of a mountain, in the fifties. He…
- 📖The meeting where everyone talkedB1 · Yesterday's meeting lasted two hours, and the topic changed three times. One colleague…
- 📖The first day at the factoryA2 · My first day at the factory began with safety instruction. The guard at the entrance gave…
- 📖The contract I didn't readB1 · I signed the internet contract in such a way that I didn't read a single clause to the…
- 📖Our river bankB1 · At the edge of our district there is a small river, and as children we swam there. In…
- 📖The book I rememberB1 · On grandma's shelf lay a novel in an old-fashioned cover, and I was fourteen when I read…
- 📖The city runA2 · Last week I took part in a city run for the first time. The warm-up lasted fifteen…
- 📖Curtains and measurementsA2 · We changed the curtains in the apartment and measured everything first. The window width…
- 📖After fortyB1 · After forty the doctor told me I should start taking care of my health. The tests weren't…
- 📖New Year at grandma'sA2 · We meet New Year at grandma's, and setting the table is always her job. We're left with…
- 📖The meeting and the decisionB1 · Two opinions clashed at the meeting, and the argument lasted an hour. One side said the…
- 📖A day without electricityB1 · In the morning the elevator didn't work, and apparently the electricity was cut in the…
- 📖Grandpa's suitcaseA2 · In the attic I found grandpa's old suitcase. The leather was worn, and the corners were…
- 📖The dead end in our districtB1 · Our street ends in a dead end, and a stranger here always loses the way. On the map it…
- 📖Two years of figuresB1 · The library published a report for two years, and the figures turned out interesting. The…
- 📖The repair that dragged onB1 · We planned the kitchen repair for two weeks, and it lasted two months. The crew started…
- 📖The experiment at schoolB1 · The seventh grade ran a simple experiment: they checked which water freezes faster — cold…
- 📖Grandma's albumA2 · Grandma took out an old album and explained the photographs to us in order. In those…
- 📖The river and the factoryB1 · In our city the river flows next to a factory, and for years its water was murky. The…
- 📖The first day in the workshopB1 · The first day in the workshop began with a briefing: for two hours they talked to us…
- 📖The story I often tellB1 · Once in winter I happened to be returning from a village to the city at night. The bus…
- 📖Character and conductB1 · At school we had a boy whom everyone called withdrawn. In class he said nothing, and at…
How to read a text in a language you barely know
First pass — all the way through, without peeking at the translation. The goal is not to understand but to catch familiar words: there will be more of them than you expect, and that feeling matters more than any rule.
Second pass — with the translation beside you. Now it becomes clear what exactly was in the way: an unknown word, a construction you did not get, or just reading speed.
Third pass — all the way through again. The second pass brings noticeably more, and this step is what makes reading useful: it turns analysis into recognition.
Frequently asked
What level do you need to read texts in Georgian?
A1–B1. For the first texts the letters and two or three hundred everyday words are enough; the B1 texts need about three thousand. The translation sits next to it, so an unknown word does not stop the reading.
How many times should you reread the text?
Three times: without the translation, with it, and without it again. The third pass is what all of this is for — the second time you recognize noticeably more.