So, You Want To Learn Some Greek?

There you are contemplating a trip to Greece or one of her islands. What better way to psyche yourself up in readiness than to learn a little Greek before you go!

A t best, the locals will love it and you'll feel just that little bit more smug than the majority of your fellow travellers. At worse everyone will have a good laugh and the locals will still be impressed that you have shown the interest to try! It's not a bad idea anyway, just to make sure that you recognise some of the signs that you might just need to know.

Parents please note that your children will almost certainly prove to be more adept with the Greek language than you!

Online Greek Language Tutorials
Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation, whose site can be found at  http://kypros.org/Greek/  is outstanding with in excess of 100 tutorials. These require realaudio player which can be downloaded free from RealNetworks, Inc. at http://www.real.com. These lessons are accompanied by extensive notes prepared by users. They are available at http://kypros.org/Greek/Notes/. The downside is that you have to listen to the lessons online.

However, help is at hand! If you go to http://go.to/greeklessons  they can be downloaded along with the notes. This is really worth the effort. 

http://users.otenet.gr/~vamvakos/alphabet.htm  - Greek-English Dictionary

http://www.langintro.com/greek/ - An Introduction to Modern Greek 

http://www.greece.org/gr-lessons/gr-english/ - Greek Through the Internet

How to Read, Write, Print and Email in Greek
Don't struggle using 'symbol fonts'. - Use the real thing!The pages found at  http://www.hri.org/fonts/ provide installation and usage instructions on reading, writing and printing in Greek, as well as some tips on how to email in Greek, and spell check your Greek text. Information is available for the following operating systems:

N.B. We suspect that they will also work with later flavours of windows but haven't tested them!

An Introduction to Modern Greek
by J. David Eisenberg http://www.catcode.com/greek/

Hellenic Electronic Center
A variety of information can be found at: http://www.greece.org/gr-lessons/gr-english/

Greek-English Dictionary
http://users.otenet.gr/~vamvakos/alphabet.htm

An Introduction to Modern Greek
http://www.langintro.com/greek/

Greek Through the Internet
http://www.greece.org/gr-lessons/gr-english/

Good luck with the study!