Archive for the ‘Greek’ Category
May
May
Let's learn the Greek alphabet!
Alphabets are scary things — when you understand an alphabet, you are sufficiently equipped to intuit many things about the text written in it, even if you don’t actually know a word of that language. However, when you don’t understand the alphabet, you find yourself saying, “It’s all Greek to me!”
Jan
Jan
New language mission for 2012!
As I mentioned in my last post, my first goal in choosing a language this year was that I pick something which I will have many opportunities to use. In that post, I listed out several considerations, and I think it’s important to go through a similar process when choosing a new language project for…
Jan
Jan
Early steps to learning Greek
For my first month with Greek, the plan has been to ease into the language. The Greek language is written in a different alphabet than any to which I am accustomed, and if I’m going to learn this language it will be necessary to be able to read the words I see in lessons, tutorials,…
Jan
Jan
Typing in Greek
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m not yet spending any actual time studying… the Greek language. I plan to begin studying intensely when February begins, but for now the most important step is comfortably reading and writing in the native Greek alphabet. Once I begin focused study, I don’t want my progress to
Jan
Jan
Reading Greek, part II
I’ve talked about the Greek alphabet in the past, but as I mentioned last week, there are a few more things one needs to know before effectively reading Greek.
Greek is not a fully phonetic language. A few letters can be pronounced in more than one way, and a few sounds can be represented by…
Feb
Feb
Brute force Greek
Category: Greek, Polish · Tags: blitzkrieg approach,brute force fluency,learning materials
In previous posts, I’ve already described the process I used for my first month of Greek study, which has been mostly about getting comfortable reading and writing in the new alphabet, learning pronunciation rules, and learning some basic phrases.
I’ve already impressed my Greek coworker twice this month with the amount I’ve learned in a…