I want to begin learning both Ancient and Modern Greek. Could someone point me in the direction of a great introductory textbook? I know the alphabet quite well, and I have been studying Latin since 2011, if those things help your suggestions. Thank you!

The most notable characteristic of the northern dialects is the difference in the personal pronoun forms used to express indirect objects (e.g. Μάθε μου ελληνικά vs Μάθε με ελληνικά) but there are also many more like one I found out about recently that some verbs are different in the past progressive tense and are considered wrong in Standard Modern Greek (e.g. Άρεζε). I wonder what else I haven't noticed.

meaning Τῷ βίῳ μὴ ἄχθου in english

Might be a bit of a silly post, so bear with me.

I'm interested in learning Greek, but my current knowledge of the language is functionally zero. I've checked the resources tab, and I've found some things that look like they'd work for my learning style. But I'm interested in supplementing them with materials that are aimed at early language acquisition for kids, especially stuff with a musical component (to this day, the only thing I remember from my French classes in high school is the alphabet song the teacher made us listen to, lol).

Is there a Greek version of something like Dora the Explorer, Sesame Street, or School House Rock I could watch? (I probably just dated myself with that last reference). Or a good place I could watch a Greek kid's show/a Greek dub of a kid's show with English subtitles? A lot of the subtitles on YouTube videos are auto-generated and not very accurate, so I'm not entirely sure I'd find anything useful by myself. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Οποια ενδιαφερεται ας μου στειλει dm

thx

Γεια! Ξέρει κανείς αν υπάρχουν δημόσιες μπάρες, υπαίθρια γυμναστήρια ή χώροι για calisthenics στη Νικήτη ή κοντά; Ακόμα και ένα μικρό πάρκο με μπάρες είναι τέλειο. Ευχαριστώ!

Hi all!

Me and my fiance are moving to greece in 2/3 years and we both want to able to learn as close to fluent as we can, we want to be able to speak as much greek as we can!

Are there any apps anyone can recommend that we can use?

Many thanks Sam

Booty (feat. Maryo) by Koboy https://www.shazam.com/track/551993638/booty-feat-maryo?referrer=sharea

Είμαι τόσο τεμπέλης για να διαβάζω πεζογραφία και δεν μ αρέσει καθόλου. Στις γλώσσες που διαβάζω προτιμώ ποίηση, ειδικά συμβολισμό με ποτάμια, δάση, ξημερώματα και μελαγχολία. Έτσι γράψτε μου αυτούς παρακαλώ

Does anyone remember a single character or symbol for the diphthong «ΟΥ» - “o-o-o”. I haven’t seen this character since the late 1970’s; but so much has changed in the orthography of the language since then. When I was learning, Modern Greek had the accent marks like Classical Greek, three accent marks and two breathing marks. Fun, Fun, Fun. I also remember standing in Plaka square while Karamanlis droned on in fascist sounding Καθαρεύουσα, unintelligible to most of the voters present. I majored in Classics so these issues weren’t so obscure (except for Καθαρεύουσα). (I always thought that these marks might be for the meters used in Poetry - but probably not).

The ferry to the remote island where I had bought a house. It was named the ΜΙΑΟΥΛΗΣ and I thought this character was in the name painted on the “ship” - 24 hour journey.

Υπάρχει; Είτε είμαι ηλίθιος, ή μήπως έκανα άλλο λάθος, - πάλι;

Hello, as the title says I’m currently in Greece and want to help my friend find a comic book on Greek Myths. There are a few comic shops near where we are staying in Athens, but we’re not sure what to look for. Any suggestions would be appreciated

There's always a lot of talk about how often Greeks call each other malaka. I was reading Plato this morning, and it positively lept off the page. Enjoy!

Καλλίκλης

ἀλλ᾽ ἔγωγε καὶ πάλαι λέγω. πρῶτον μὲν τοὺς κρείττους οἵ εἰσιν οὐ σκυτοτόμους λέγω οὐδὲ μαγείρους, ἀλλ᾽οἳ ἂν εἰς τὰ τῆς πόλεως πράγματα φρόνιμοι ὦσιν, ὅντινα ἂν τρόπον εὖ οἰκοῖτο, καὶ μὴ μόνον φρόνιμοι, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀνδρεῖοι, ἱκανοὶ ὄντες ἃ ἂν νοήσωσιν ἐπιτελεῖν, καὶ μὴ ἀποκάμνωσι διὰ μαλακίαν τῆς ψυχῆς.

My version:

"But I've been saying [it] for a long time. First, I'm saying that the more powerful aren't shoe makers or cooks, but those who are knowledgeable about the affairs of the city, about how it ought to be managed well, and not only [are they] knowedgeable, but they're also manly, being capable of accomplishing whatever they intend, and [who] don't peter out because of some effeminacy of their soul."

I want to learn Greek and have an excuse to write more, I am doing edexcel gcse Greek so I have to start somewhere, I am fluent in Greek but I somehow am really bad at writing.(I don't know much vocab but trying to improve it!) DM me!

Some verbs have two possible endings without their meaning changing, e.g. νικώ – νικάω, χτυπώ – χτυπάω. Why is that? Is it a different dialect thing? Which of the two forms is the official used in Standard Modern Greek? I guess one of the two could be a more archaic form popularized by Katharevousa, but I don't know which one.

Hello all!

I’m currently starting my Greek learning journey. I already speak English and -a not- perfect German. My mother tongue is Spanish.

When I started with German I bought the assimil book, and it was an amazing way to learn the language, also because they have the Spanish to German book.

But for Greek it has been difficult to find a book that worth the investment… sadly

I thought about buying the German to Greek assimil book, but as I’m not that fluent in German like in English or Spanish, I’m really not sure about it.

I also thought about buying a course in Udemy or some of these websites.

Somebody has a recommendation for me? First option will be from Spanish to Greek, then English, and last German.

Ps: I’m also using Duolingo and Mondly just to have more vocabulary :)

In my fam, ALL the men are some combination—always—of Alexander, Paul, and Peter. Like, Alexander Paul, Peter Alexander, Paul Peter, etc.

I’m not close to that side of the family so I dunno... My husband thinks it’s funny. I am claiming it’s normal for Greeks but don’t know if that’s true. Is it?

ps. the women are always Alexandra, Helen, or Areta, or some combo.

Is this something usual/normal to say?

I love been really wanting to get “god loves you, but not enough to save you” From Ethel Cain’s ‘sun bleached flies’ tattooed, however the only Greek speaker I know is my yiayia and she would slap me if she found out I’m getting that tattooed😂 I don’t trust google translate, so can someone please help me properly translate this??

I have read that Standard Modern Greek is based on Demotic Greek with some features from Katharevousa. However, Demotic Greek is a really vague term that includes many different western dialects spoken in the 19th century. I know that SMG is based on those dialects spoken within the borders of the First Hellenic Republic, though which ones specifically? Is it the one spoken in the Peloponnese, the one spoken in Continental Greece, the Old Athenian Dialect, or maybe a different one?

Disclaimer! I built this app because my wife is learning Greek and she got stuck after language transfer.

She doesn't like talking to me so I built her an AI language tutor.

It actually already supports 70+ languages and getting quite popular so I just quit my job to focus on this.

Wish me luck! And let me know if you think it works well for Greek!

Eimai sigouros tha sas aresei 😁