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| ptrk7 Newbie United States Joined 6685 days ago 29 posts - 29 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 1 of 16 27 June 2010 at 5:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I decided I want to start learning Modern Greek this December but first I would like to buy some books and courses to help with. Does anyone know anything that I would be able to find through amazon that anyone would recommend? I have absolutely no experience with the Greek language.
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| joebelt Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6361 days ago 51 posts - 68 votes  Speaks: English*, French | Message 2 of 16 27 June 2010 at 5:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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While I haven't done their Greek course, Pimsleur is usually my starting point when I start a new language. I'm doing their Spanish course right now and it's most excellent. You should find their stuff on Amazon though it might be cheaper on the iTunes Store in my experience.
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| dolly Senior Member United States Joined 5818 days ago 191 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 3 of 16 27 June 2010 at 5:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Communicate in Greek
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| hobbitofny Senior Member United States Joined 6261 days ago 280 posts - 408 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 4 of 16 27 June 2010 at 6:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
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If starting with zero Greek, I would buy Rapid Greek by Earworms. I follow this with either Pimsleur or Michel Thomas.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6498 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 5 of 16 27 June 2010 at 6:17pm | IP Logged | |||||
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"Communicate in Greek" is a great course, but it wasn't designed for self-study, you
need a teacher with that. I'm not a fan of Pimsleur (too overpriced and too slow teaching), so to get started and develop a good accent I recommend the free online audio-based course at Kypros.org, and to go in-depth Assimil "Greek with Ease" is awesome, leading up to B2 level. I'm almost done with Assimil at present and they're not exaggerating (or not by much, not sure how much I learned with previous less effective materials). While waiting for materials you could also study Filoglossia, a nice online course which is offered for free even though it was originally a commercial book. 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6731 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 16 27 June 2010 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The (paperbased) Essential Grammar from Routledge is quite good.
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| joebelt Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6361 days ago 51 posts - 68 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 7 of 16 28 June 2010 at 12:06am | IP Logged | |||||
Check their digital pricing through iTunes Store, Pimsleur Audio or even Audible. A little over $100 per course. It's a steal for how well it gets you started. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6498 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 8 of 16 28 June 2010 at 10:27am | IP Logged | |||||
Sorry, I don't think so. If I use Pimsleur at all, it's the first five lessons, just to get the accent down - but listening to the first few Pod101 language podcasts of a beginner series will set you up just as nicely. $100 is way too much for five lessons, or even ten lessons, especially when there are free alternatives that will do the same. And considering the whole three levels of Pimsleur teach only 500 words, spending 90x30 minutes and even $300 (over $1000 retail price and over $700 for the CDs on Amazon) on it is just madness. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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