In this episode you will learn how to introduce yourself and say where you are from. We also teach you some important things you need to know about the Greek language.
You’ll learn the following phrases:
- Nαι / Όχι
- Γεια σου / γεια σας
- Τι κάνεις; / Πώς είσαι;
- Είμαι καλά / πολύ καλά.
- Πώς σε λένε;
- Είμαι η/ο ….
- Από πού είσαι;
- Είμαι από την….(Ολλανδία, Αγγλία, Αμερική, Ιταλία)
- Χάρηκα!
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Μου αρέσει το Podcast σου πολύ! Είναι τέλεια και πολύ βοηθητικό . Ευχαριστω πολύ! Φιλια Antje από την Γερμανία
I’m writing to let you know how helpful I have found your pod cast. I’m not yet at the end of the first season (I’ve reached session 21 think).
I thought you might be interested to know why I in particular have found this to be extraordinarily useful. I am 63 years old and I lived in Greece when I was 24 to 26.
I taught myself Greek at the time already having some Italian and French as well as English of course. When I left at the age of 26 I went to live in France and also spent some time visiting Italy.
My spoken Greek at the time was coherent enough for me to have been running parents evenings for a small language school on one of the islands.
When I went to live in France I lost my spoken Greek over the following years. I had no Greek friends and did not have the opportunity to return.
Your pod cast has allowed me to remember the principal elements of the language which I had already learned when I was younger. I’ve been able to move quickly and with comfort through all of the modules with them acting as a reminder and, I hope, being a really good start to me resuscitating my spoken Greek.
I thought you might find this interesting as it is perhaps something that might apply to other students of spoken Greek who once had notions of Greek but have lost them.
I started listening to the podcast in preparation for a trip I’m making next week for one week on my own flying into Thessaloniki on Monday. I’m looking to place myself in a quiet rural/provincial town. I’m looking for somewhere that people really don’t go because it probably doesn’t have anything special except that it’s a Greek town. Somewhere that doesn’t have a major tourist attraction but has a coherent Greek public life in caf’s and shops et cetera.
It’s difficult to identify anywhere and my plan currently is to simply go to the bus station and take a bus somewhere…
I thought that perhaps you might be able to recommend a town to me? Or a big village in the region of Thessaloniki. I’m not intending to take a hire car but to use public transport either by bus or by train.
I’m not writing this in the hope that you will make any introductions for me as my aim is to throw myself in the deep end and learn (relearn) as much as I can in that week. I’ve put off bringing my now grown-up children to Greece until I could once again at least command the basics of the language. I become extremely tongue-tied as if I am not able to at least make a stab at communicating in Greek.
If this email gets through to you then it’s primarily to thank you for your pod cast. If you are able to suggest anywhere then I’d be really interested to hear? I thought it okay to ask as if someone were to ask me about a similar place to go in the UK I could probably make a stab at suggesting somewhere quiet and of the beating track yet with life.
Thanks for reading this and I hope to hear from you,
Tim.