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| Jarel Diglot Groupie Turkey Joined 4327 days ago 57 posts - 77 votes  Speaks: Turkish*, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 1 of 18 04 June 2013 at 11:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello; I am collecting stuff for learning Greek via English. According to assimil web site; it is only available for modern greek via french. Is there anyone who can advice me a assimil type course on modern greek?
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| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4611 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 2 of 18 04 June 2013 at 12:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Many people recommend Linguaphone quite highly.
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| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4359 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 3 of 18 04 June 2013 at 12:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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FSI Greek
How about this? It is a bit old fashioned, but it's ok and it's free! I have the turkish course, hopefully I'll learn someday. Is it up to date or old fashioned? May I ask your opinion? How come you want to learn greek, if you don't mind me asking? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jarel Diglot Groupie Turkey Joined 4327 days ago 57 posts - 77 votes Speaks: Turkish*, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 4 of 18 04 June 2013 at 2:03pm | IP Logged | ||
I already have downloaded FSI Greek course. As for Turkish course, it's a bit old fashioned but not that bad. If you speak like that on the streets people will be surprised at first but you'll be understood. As for Greek; well i love learning new languages and so far i tried almost 10. I couldn't get passed beginner phase in any of them, but English and Italian. I read alot about history and recently i started reading about Byzantine History. That's why i want to give Greek a try. Usually if i like the rhytm and sound of the language i continue. That was what happened with Italian, i started a year ago and now i am somewhere between A2 and B1. So far Greek sounds amazing. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4359 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 5 of 18 04 June 2013 at 2:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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I like the sound of turkish too. Other than Pimsleur (which is what I'm doing now), which course would you recommend in turkish?
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| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5866 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 6 of 18 04 June 2013 at 2:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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@renaissancemedi: It might be better to start your own topic, that way you can get more opinions (not just people looking for Greek resources).
Also, Language Transfer has a Greek course that is really good (in my opinion :D) and also free: http://www.languagetransfer.org/#!page2/cjg9 There's also a Teach Yourself course and Routledge put out an "Essential Grammar" book. I'm sure there's plenty more out there, too. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4611 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 7 of 18 04 June 2013 at 3:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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All of the resources recommended by Crush and renaissancemedi are very good.
I'll also recommend Spoken World Greek which seems to combine the best of Assimil (lots of audio) and Teach Yourself (good grammar and vocabulary). I only looked at it for a week or two (I borrowed it from a library which has since lost their only copy!) and I was very impressed. I'd buy it if I didn't already have a lot of beginners material for Greek. Edit: I'll also say that I really liked Michel Thomas Greek. Edited by embici on 04 June 2013 at 3:05pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jarel Diglot Groupie Turkey Joined 4327 days ago 57 posts - 77 votes Speaks: Turkish*, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 8 of 18 04 June 2013 at 3:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks everyone for nice recommendations.
@embici which linguaphone we are talking about here? Is there a "preferred" older version for Greek just as there are for German, Arabic etc. ? @renaissancemedi Sorry, i really don't know many Turkish sources, since i never used any. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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