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| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4609 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 193 of 231 11 March 2013 at 2:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Καλώς ήρθατε, Gomorritis!
That was a great introduction. Good luck with your studies, although, it sounds like you are on track. You're right about the Ξενοφών in the HAU podcasts. His interjections are hilarious! It looks like you are using a lot of Greek-only materials. That's great. It shows that you have a good basic knowledge of the language. When there is something you don't understand you can always get some help from your girlfriend. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4609 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 194 of 231 12 March 2013 at 2:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Since there are a few people around here using Greek learning materials without a base in another language I thought I'd share this Basic Grammar of Greek (in Greek only). Perhaps it will be useful to someone.
Βασική γραμματική της ελληνικής Edit: If you search around the site you will find a lot of PDFs for school children learning Greek as a second language. Edited by embici on 12 March 2013 at 2:47pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4638 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 195 of 231 12 March 2013 at 4:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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embici, thanks for posting useful links. I need to become more advanced before I start using Greek-only material, but it is good to know where to look for it once I get to that level.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5333 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 196 of 231 15 March 2013 at 12:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Welcome Gomorritis! I am happy to see yet another member who is interested in Greek - and having Spanish as your mother tongue is no disadvantage either.
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| Gomorritis Tetraglot Groupie Netherlands Joined 4277 days ago 91 posts - 157 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, Catalan, French Studies: Greek, German, Dutch | Message 197 of 231 16 March 2013 at 12:10am | IP Logged | ||
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I have a huge advantage for the pronunciation, especially since Greek and Spanish share the same 5 vowel sounds,
which in my opinion are much harder to master than consonant sounds. I did have to practise a lot of consonant sounds, cause Greek has quite a few more than Spanish, and slight variations in many of them. Also very important are the intonations, which are especially similar if you speak castillan Spanish like I do (a South American or Andalusian would have much more difficulty to sound like a Greek when speaking Greek). But there are Greek words that I still find hard to pronounce, for example "γυαλιά", or other very tricky things like saying a word which starts with "ζ" when the previous word ended with "σ". Edited by Gomorritis on 16 March 2013 at 12:11am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| modus.irrealis Bilingual Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 5877 days ago 29 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English*, Greek*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Danish, Turkish | Message 198 of 231 16 March 2013 at 12:19pm | IP Logged | ||
This will always be a mystery to me. None of the Latin American Spanish varieties sound even remotely like Greek, but it is strange how Greek some Spain Spanish speakers can sound. And this even carries over to the typical accents you hear when people speak English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4609 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 199 of 231 16 March 2013 at 12:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Back in December I came across this TV commercial that aired in Greece. It's Javier
Bardem speaking Greek. Παστίλιες για τον πόνο του άλλου Edit: fixed link Edited by embici on 16 March 2013 at 12:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gomorritis Tetraglot Groupie Netherlands Joined 4277 days ago 91 posts - 157 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, Catalan, French Studies: Greek, German, Dutch | Message 200 of 231 16 March 2013 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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I know that commercial. I also saw a parody of it, in which they make fun of how Spanish language (from Spain)
sounds to Greeks. The Greek cliché about Spanish is that we use the sound of "θ" all the time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY-QkS035UA And it is actually true for a few regions in Spain Edited by Gomorritis on 16 March 2013 at 4:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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