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What's a good free crash course on Greek? Nothing more complex than "Hello. Where is __? How much is it? (I'll take it || That's too much). Thank you. Goodbye". I'm sure I could do it in English -- I've been to Mykonos on vacation before and all the shops could speak a plethora of languages -- but I'd like to be polite and use their language as much as possible.
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Jan 24, 2022 23:31
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Nothing? I 'm really only interested in basic pleasantries. When I went to Russia I had a vocabulary of maybe twenty words but the natives were tickled pink that I made an effort at all. I'd like to do the same in Greece, Ortho fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Jan 27, 2022 |
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Jan 27, 2022 14:22
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Wouldn't Duolingo be sufficient for this purpose?
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Jan 29, 2022 14:30
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Tosk posted:Wouldn't Duolingo be sufficient for this purpose?
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Jan 29, 2022 23:21
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If Greek is like any of the other Duolingo courses, then it would be sufficient for this purpose.
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Jan 30, 2022 03:29
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The Science, Academics, and Languages subforum is probably a better fit for the question. Their Greek thread is about Classical Greek, but you could ask in the small questions / chat thread
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Feb 7, 2022 21:21
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i like nice words
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I took a year of modern Greek. It's a pretty awesome language. First, you'll obviously need to learn the alphabet. It's not super hard. Just print one out and use Google Maps to cruise around Athens, transliterating all the street signs and shop names you see. You'll get it pretty quick. Second, Greek doesn't just have singular and plural. It has singular, dual, and plural. Which is kinda neat. So there's an extra word (suffix) to learn for everything. Mostly it's not that big a deal, though. I'm sure Duolingo is fine. Although do the Google Maps in Athens thing for the alphabet. It'll be more fun.
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Sep 14, 2022 02:54
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I’ve been using Duolingo for about a month now for Italian. It takes a while to get to phrases you’ll actually use tho. There’s a lot of intro “the boy eats sugar” “the girl likes milk” stuff to wade through. Or maybe I’m just an idiot and haven’t figured out how to get past this beginner phase.
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I've just started learning so that I can talk to my wife's Greek family and we can raise our son bilingually (to the extent possible). I'm not very far along yet but my personal survey of options led me to settle on: Free recommendation: Language Transfer Non-free recommendatoon: italki (lots of professional Greek teachers at reasonable rates). Pro-tier life hack: have a Greek mother-in-law 
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