I have just stumbled across a series of video clips on YouTube by RIC DOG, entitled “Georgian for Foreigners – Lesson 1“, “Georgian for Foreigners – Lesson 2“, “Georgian for Foreigners – Lesson 3” etc…

RICDOG EVS volunteers offer to every foreigners to learn most useful Georgian words. (sic)

Here is the link for lesson 1: Georgian for foreigners – lesson 1

There are currently 13 lessons, but more may be added.

The clips are short (each less than two and a half minutes) and presented by the same personable young woman named Leonor, she pronounces some basic words and phrases in Georgian and the words appear on the screen in Roman text (from lesson 3 onwards). She uses English to present the vocabulary and address the viewers.

RIC DOG is an acronym for Research-Intellectual Club “Dialogue of Generations”.

On their website (www.ricdog.org) their mission statement is:

Research-Intellectual Club “Dialogue of Generations” (RICDOG) wants to create a space where people of different ages will have a harmonious relationship with each other. Our mission is to resist the alienation between generations and gain our knowledge, skills and experience exchange on which our joint participation in any activities will be successful. We encourage everyone to be active everywhere and always, in order to have successful present and future generations and create healthy environment.

For a basic introduction to spoken Georgian these clips provide useful words and phrases, I would have liked to see the words on the screen in Georgian script, too. There have to date been few views for these clips (48 views for lesson 4 at the time of writing), they deserve more.