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False friends – Greek has a lot of them!
One likes to think that with so much influence on the English language, there should be a wealth of cognates in Greek which would make it easier for a native English-speaker to learn — and there are — but there are also a lot of “false friends”… words that sound like cognates, but are not.…
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Learning Greek through English roots
In my last post I pointed out a number of false friends that make life more difficult for the new learner of Modern Greek. But everything isn’t bleak… there are also some not-so-false friends that can be used to your advantage. Today, I’ll look at some of the ways that Greek words can be found…