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| nikorizzo Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4710 days ago 26 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, Greek, French | Message 1 of 8 16 June 2011 at 4:12am | IP Logged | ||
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So basically, now that I've reached a point in Mandarin where I'm comforable with starting a new language, I've
decided to learn Greek. I'm half Greek and my grandparents and father speak it, although I was not brought up bilingually (grrr....). I went to Greek school last year for the first time, in the adult class, as it was that or start with the 1st graders, and it was absolutely terrible! The textbook was IN Greek, so even if I wanted to do independant study, I wouldn't be able to because I didn't know what the book said. That book was επικοινωνήστε ελληνικά with the accompanying workbook. ANYWAY, this entire summer is dedicated to Greek, but I have no clue what to buy to learn. With Mandarin and Spanish, I literally taught myself with no books or anything, just the internet and flash cards. But because Greek has much more difficult grammar and imo is just a generally hard language (arguably harder than Mandarin) I need a book to learn. I was looking at these http://www.amazon.co.uk/Greek-Essential-Grammar-Language- Grammars/dp/0415232104 , http://www.amazon.co.uk/Build-Your-Greek-Vocabulary-Garafoul ia- Middle/dp/1903103223/ref=pd_sim_b_2 . They have high reviews and seem pretty good. I also downloaded a couple Greek podcasts. I've also never used any like listening programs like Pimsleur or Assimil. I also know the alphabet already if that means anything. Thanks in advance, Niko 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5351 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 2 of 8 16 June 2011 at 9:37am | IP Logged | ||
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Not used it - but this has come recommended for internet learning -
http://www.kypros.org/LearnGreek/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| nikorizzo Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4710 days ago 26 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin, Greek, French | Message 3 of 8 16 June 2011 at 12:40pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks, I'll definitely try that. Anything else anyone? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4916 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 4 of 8 16 June 2011 at 3:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Can't vouch for the quality of the course, but there's an FSI course available here.
Has both text and audio. Be warned though, the FSI courses are very dry. R. == 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5351 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 5 of 8 16 June 2011 at 6:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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one thing about FSI is that it uses the Kathomilumeni variant that was used by diplomats in the 60s - I don't actually know the extent to which it varies from the post 1976 reforms that introduced modern dimotiki as the official language (in fact I can't find references to Kathomilumeni save those in relation to FSI!), but its just a warning that things have changed since FSI. That said there are 3 whole books worth of FSI so it is pretty good going. Edited by Elexi on 16 June 2011 at 6:30pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5618 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 6 of 8 16 June 2011 at 9:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Filoglossia
Good course, it has it all, video clips, dialogues. grammar and exercises. Also available on CD Rom. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kam1892 Newbie United States Joined 4713 days ago 10 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Greek | Message 7 of 8 05 August 2011 at 3:29am | IP Logged | ||
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Niko, I bought the Linguaphone course, Greek Complete. Lotsa books and CDs there. I have not gotten into it yet, but hope to start in earnest in the next few weeks.
I did take a night course a couple of years ago, which was good, but not enough students to continue to the next stage. We used the textbook Greek Today, which, like yours, was all in Greek. I also have the Pimsleur Greek Comprehensive (30 disks), which I used before a trip to Greece six years ago. It helped, but when in a crunch my mind went blank. In retrospect, I needed better preparation, longer study. But it was good for learning pronunciation. Linguaphone is expensive, but I got it at a good price when they were having a sale, and right now you might check their refurbished section, as the pricing is similar to the deal I got: Refurbished Course Sale - and I do see the Greek Complete course available, as of today. Just a suggestion, if you feel you could learn better with something like that. Otherwise, Filoglossia looks good, as stelingo suggested, or the kypros.org from Elexi. You might take a look at About the Greek Language, also. For grammar, I bought the Routledge Greek: An Essential Grammar of the Modern Language, which got good reviews, and I also have 333 Modern Greek Verbs by Papaloizos (I have an older edition I bought in the mid-1980's). Here's a page with lots of verbs, too: Modern Greek Verbs - Table of Contents Now I just need to USE all this material!! :-) Edited by kam1892 on 05 August 2011 at 3:59am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5351 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 8 of 8 05 August 2011 at 7:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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You might also want to start by usuing TY's Teach Yourself Greek Script - a short exercise book on reading modern Greek letters.
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