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| Luk Triglot Groupie Argentina Joined 5338 days ago 91 posts - 127 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English, French Studies: Italian, German, Mandarin, Greek | Message 9 of 12 13 September 2011 at 11:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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The version I have is a French/Greek by Katerina Kedra-Blayo and Jean-Loup Chérel, 2 ed.
I did Pimsleur first and though it helped, it's not a picnic. This version, I think, has reminiscent of the earlier courses. Prof. Arguelles said that the older courses "even had songs", mine has a poem divided into a few lessons (it still going in lessons 37 where I am now) and a couple of times the audio included a sang version of the poem (nice!). I think I'm going to stop doing the second wave now, it's not as effective, and keep going forward with the lessons. It's not easy to retain these greek verbs and words but we should stop worrying about it too much and continue with the lessons. I have a good book of Greek Grammar to check out a little more about verbs conjugations and complement the Assimil Method. I think its title is "Keys to Greek grammar" I've got it for free from a Greek site. Edited by Luk on 13 September 2011 at 11:40pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| seldnar Senior Member United States Joined 7135 days ago 189 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, French, Greek | Message 10 of 12 14 September 2011 at 5:12am | IP Logged | ||
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Here is a link to the book Luk mentions "Keys to Greek Grammar." Although the page is
entirely in Greek, the book appears to be in both English and Greek. It is also divided into several parts--so if you're using a browser like Firefox you might want to add a plug-in that would allow to download all of them with one click. Keys to Greek Grammar 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Steffen Newbie Germany Joined 4974 days ago 27 posts - 63 votes Studies: German* | Message 11 of 12 14 September 2011 at 7:13am | IP Logged | ||
Perhaps I was grinding my teeth too harshly because the lesson mentioned is the one I am currently stuck with. Nonetheless I think that at least some of the other dialogues are also too formalistic and grammar- book-like. Lesson 5 for example had a rather meaningless question-answer pattern without any situational context, once again to illustrate certain points of the difficult Greek grammar. Some of the later lessons I peeked at, although trying to be a little more meaningful, sounded like typical examples of failed textbook humour to me. Don't get me wrong, I will follow Luk's advice and go on with this course, even if I have to clench my fist from time to time. However, I decided to supplement it with a Rosetta Stone version 3 course, and perhaps for the first time I thought that RS was better than the respective Assimil course. I am considering Pimsleur too now. Keep in mind though that this is strictly a beginner's perspective. Edited by Steffen on 14 September 2011 at 7:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Luk Triglot Groupie Argentina Joined 5338 days ago 91 posts - 127 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, French Studies: Italian, German, Mandarin, Greek | Message 12 of 12 27 September 2011 at 7:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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A little present for those who are learning Modern Greek: 'What Is That' By Constantin Pilavios (with English subtitles)
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