I also suggest you watch Greek TV online, follow the news, weather forecast and when you are ready, start with Greek soap operas, that kind your grandmother would watch. Basic chats of stories I already knew (so that I could easily make connections). So here I am, in London, watching cartoons in Greek on youtube (Heidi and Candy Candy), an episode at a time. What’s the best way to do this? In my case, I first started with cartoons! I thought this is the way children learn so that might work for me as well.
#SPEEK GREEK MOVIE#
In the beginning, your target should be low-profile, in my opinion, don’t immerse yourself into a Greek movie to understand only four words, listen to simple conversations and aim to figure out what they are talking about. Radio listening worked as passive learning for me as I used to switch it on as a background on many occasions. While listening to the radio I became familiar with the commercials and they were great to measure my improvement in understanding Greek: short, easy, repetitive.
#SPEEK GREEK FULL#
Because I think that a full immersion into the Greek language when you are not proficient is not useful, so EnLefko was a good balance for what I was looking for: listening to people speaking in Greek with some global music to relax. It’s a great radio station which airs international music, so you’d think about why you should listen to it in order to learn Greek. Some Greek friends suggested listening to the Radio, that is how I started listening to EnLefko radio station. Once I started my lessons, what I was missing the most was the sound of the Greek language! All the books mentioned above have a CD-ROM, but I was desperate to hear the sound of Greek on a more daily informal basis. Taxidi stin Ellada – 3 4 Learn Greek passively If you are interested, these are my books for learning Greek, but I am sure your Greek teacher would advise best! In the years I was able to deal with Greek bureaucracy, accountants, lawyers, notaries in Greek! Don’t underestimate the tedious lessons when you’ll have to learn words you would never think that could be handy in the future, they will at some point! Many friends think it’s weird that I am still taking Greek classes but learning is a never-ending process and I want to be able to write in Greek fluently as well as speaking. I found my teacher Evi online, at the beginning we had lessons in person but when I moved to London first and Santorini next, we started our classes online! Evi is still my teacher nowadays and I could not be more grateful for all her thorough teachings. At that time I was working full time so I could not attend a Greek group class. When I understood that the money spent on the book to learn Greek by myself was lost, I decided at least not to waste any more time and I look for a private Greek teacher.
If you try, let me know! Something else you can do is follow on IG teachers who use social media in a creative and simple way! Check out my friend Mona and her stories! 3 Learning Greek with a teacher online When I started learning Greek it was not yet the time for apps, so I guess that nowadays you could try with a language app, but I cannot give you my feedback on this. I used the method called Assimil, not very successful with me, but I know that it is for many other people. But, in the beginning, I was not 100% about my commitment to learning Greek so I tried (with very poor results) to study the language by myself. I love learning (whatever I need to learn) from other people who I admire and that inspire me. There are some people who love to learn by themselves. Please note that it took time, I was not living in Greece and I was working full time, but when I finally moved I was pretty fluent and I could manage to start my new life in Santorini in Greek, which was amazing! 1 Learn the alphabetĢ You can learn Greek on your own (SPOILER: I can’t) This post is based on my personal experience of learning Greek, which is still a work in progress! I know that there are probably other ways but these 9 steps worked for me very well. I actually start learning Greek when my moving to Santorini was only a dream (an obsession though!), I wanted to speak Greek with my Greek friends, to have deeper conversations and a broader understanding of the culture. There are people in love with Greece who visit every year and they simply would like to learn the Greek language. It took time and effort and a lot of patience! The best would be moving to Greece and I know that a lot of you are thinking about that, but it’s not always possible and this is not the goal for everyone. Learning Greek is not an easy task, at least it was not for me.
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