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joebelt
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 Message 9 of 16
28 June 2010 at 1:13pm | IP Logged 
I guess we'll just disagree on this, though you have your pricing all wrong. You can buy the whole Spanish series (100 lessons), for example, brand new as downloads for $359 from Pimsleur Audio for example (I'm currently downloading them from the iTunes Store, for slightly more, as I find it more convenient). You can even buy just a few lesons at a time.   5 lessons is not $100 but about $30.

Their CDs prices are also nowhere close to what you talk about. Heck, Greek I is sold brand new on AMAZON for $125 right now and both available levels for $300.

The 500 words is per level not for all 3 levels. I've actually asked the publisher that question a few years back.
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Chris
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 Message 10 of 16
28 June 2010 at 1:48pm | IP Logged 
It depends on how serious you are (in reply to OP) but I'd tae a look at the Linguaphone course if you want a good solid introduction to the language!

Although it has no audio a good, solid, traditional style textbook approch to the language is Dr. Kypros Tofallis' 'A Textbook Of Modern Greek' (ISBN 0 - 905313 -16 - X) published by the Greek Institute in London (which also offers various levels of exam I believe).

Good luck with it all!
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ptrk7
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 Message 11 of 16
30 June 2010 at 3:27am | IP Logged 
Thank you for all the suggestions so far everyone, I will try and check some of them out.
I am kind of getting excited to get started learning this language but I am waiting for
December so I can try and get a little bit more better with my Spanish.

By the way, does anyone know of any online Greek radio stations or podcasts if there are
any? So I can listen to the language more for now?
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Chris
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 Message 12 of 16
30 June 2010 at 8:31am | IP Logged 
One more suggestion - Cortina Method Modern Greek.

Prof. Arguelles reviews Cortina here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP0S15g6K-Q
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Breogan
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 Message 13 of 16
30 June 2010 at 11:43am | IP Logged 
Assimil Greek with ease.
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Andy E
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 Message 14 of 16
01 July 2010 at 8:29am | IP Logged 
Is there a "Greek with Ease" course i.e. English-based?. There's certainly "Le Nouveau Grec sans Peine"


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 Message 15 of 16
01 July 2010 at 12:01pm | IP Logged 
Seems like there may not be :-(
It's strange, considering they already translated this book to German...
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Andy E
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 Message 16 of 16
01 July 2010 at 10:18pm | IP Logged 
Sprachprofi wrote:
It's strange, considering they already translated this book to German...


Yes. Hungarian is available but not Greek.



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