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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 105 of 231 28 December 2012 at 10:51am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Ευχαριστώ για το καλωσόρισμα, thanks for the welcome!
Body language can be a foreign language indeed. Edited by renaissancemedi on 28 December 2012 at 10:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| 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 106 of 231 28 December 2012 at 4:06pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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That sounds like what we do (at least in the states...) when we see someone on the streets and want to say hello without speaking or simply acknowledge their presence. But there's no tss sound, just lifting the head a bit. I think i'll have to see it firsthand before i really understand, though :P
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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 107 of 231 28 December 2012 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I've seen this in Greece and Turkey, and I've noticed other people from Central Asia and the Middle East do this. The shaking the head from side to side for yes, is Bulgarian. At least, that's what a Bulgarian told me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| aloysius Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6241 days ago 226 posts - 291 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: French, Greek, Italian, Russian | Message 108 of 231 31 December 2012 at 4:34pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Hail thee mighty Spartans!
Greek wasn't really my top priority for 2013, but then Team Sparta came along and I couldn't resist the invitation and temptation. So here I am ready to return to this amazing language. Although I've had a go with it once or twice before I'm certainly a beginner, since whatever I learnt have long since been forgotten and I never got very far anyway. Well, I still remember the alphabet, though. There are so many good reasons why I want to learn Greek. Although this time I will start out with the modern variety it's still intertwined with its ancient predecessor and the fantastically rich cultural heritage that comes along with it. Though my visits to Greece are limited to two holiday trips they definitely made me want to go back, and being able to communicate not only in English and German would be so great! And it's interesting to learn an Indo- European language not directly related to the others I know – familiar and different at the same time. And then of course Greek is the foundation for the formation of so many concepts in science and the humanities. So really looking forward to this a lot! Tomorrow I will start over from scratch with Assimil. Here's my new log. //aloysius 2 persons have 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 109 of 231 31 December 2012 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I am so happy to hear you say that. I can't get it in my head that ancient and modern greek are considered two seperate languages. I am not at all a bilingual, you see. If you treat the greek language as one and the same, you will be greatly rewarded, as the roots of the words haven't changed at all since homeric times. Sure the styles change over the centuries, but if you really learn words and their etymology you'll recognise more and more in the texts of all eras. I am not saying that you don't need special studies for reading the attic form because you do, I am just saying that modern greek and ancient greek is the same language. Modern greek is not simpler, as I have seen written. Maybe in the future we'll use the infinitive again, maybe something else, maybe not. Everything is still contained in the language, enriched over the centuries. Maybe we have been spoiled by the amazing ancient writers, but modern things like Seferis's essays, δοκιμές he called them, are equally great. Think about shakespearean and modern English (all over the world). Isn't it the same language? I promise I will never write anything like that again, but I just had to say it. From now on only grammar and spelling, I promise. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 110 of 231 31 December 2012 at 5:27pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
You are welcome to make any comment at any time :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5767 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 111 of 231 31 December 2012 at 10:04pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Renaissancemedi, the smile on my face grew ever broader with every line of your last post that I read, until the very last, and then it vanished. What you wrote above is exactly the sort of thing that I personally am interested in. It was really interesting to read about the opinions of a Greek about their own language as it has developed over the centuries, and I am willing to bet you could have said more than what you did. And please, tell us more if you want! This thread is not just for us of Team Sparta to discuss our studies, it's for anyone who's interested in Greek to step forward and talk about it. In my own opinion, this forum, although a wonderful place, is largely dominated by a number of languages that we could all count on two hands and Greek, sadly, is not one of those ten or so. We were all very happy when Team Sparta was founded, just as those studying the Celtic languages were when Team Lugus came into existence, because both teams' foundations signified Greek and the Celtic languages gaining even just a little ground on the dominant languages here. So we'd all welcome anything you wish to contribute towards Team Sparta at all :) Jack Edited by LanguageSponge on 31 December 2012 at 10:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ancpem1 Groupie United States Joined 4389 days ago 56 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian, Greek, Latin, French | Message 112 of 231 01 January 2013 at 3:37am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Is it too late to join this team? I plan to study Russian, and it would be helpful to know Greek.
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