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Smarter German learns Greek
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26 September 2014 at 12:24pm | IP Logged

This bloke is one of my favourite channels to subscribe to on Youtube. In the past, he
successfully got people to pass a German B1 test in 30 days, and nearly pass in 2 weeks.
Now he's turning his methods on himself and trying to get up to B1 in Greek through self
study in 30 days. He's doing a video every day, so it's really interesting to see exactly
what he does day-by-day. Four days in so far.

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4

I'll be interested to see how he does.
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Chav
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26 September 2014 at 1:33pm | IP Logged

I'm not sure how it's the same techniques he uses to speak German, since those (from the videos I watched) seem to rely on him knowing shortcuts/etc for memorising rules of gender and other bits of grammar. Whereas he doesn't know Greek yet so how could he do that?
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26 September 2014 at 1:35pm | IP Logged

Chav wrote:

I'm not sure how it's the same techniques he uses to speak German, since those (from the
videos I watched) seem to rely on him knowing shortcuts/etc for memorising rules of
gender and other bits of grammar. Whereas he doesn't know Greek yet so how could he do
that?

Well it's often fairly easy to Google such rules.
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26 September 2014 at 1:40pm | IP Logged

It's interesting and good luck to him, but I'm just not sure if it's really the same method.
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26 September 2014 at 6:50pm | IP Logged

There is already a thread on this started a couple days ago:

http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=39324&PN=1

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