Greek B1 in the Cyclads

The Vardakeios School of Hermoupoli organizes an intensive summer course of Modern Greek language for students with a Β1 level. The course will be held from 17th to 28th September 2012 and will cover 20 full hours.

Learn Greek and discover Cyclads

Sun, sea…and Greek language! All in one! It’s not a film title…

…nor my last dream!It’s reality!

Polls

You just need 5 minutes to answer to two simple questions.

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Greek traditional music

Yesterday night the most famous Italian songs contest had its closing ceremony…how could I not talk you about MUSIC? GREEK MUSIC of course.  I found out a great website. The author? An Italian named  Carmelo Siciliano. Being a guitar player he is very keen on and scholar of traditional Mediteranean music (and more)…and above all he suffers from “mal de Grèce”. Indeed he has spent years studying Greek traditional music and now he is spreading this musical culture through www.greekfolkmusic.net.

Best wishes!

To

all of

you I wish

a quiet and joyful

Christmas full of happiness

and

peace!!

Καλές γιορτές!!

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Coffee break

Coffe break…just because I will need coffee to overcome this exam session. I only want to inform you that the post publication will start again after november, 24th.

Sorry for interrupting the blog

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The book agora

An online agora based in UK: a virtual shop which offers a fich variety of texts and products all related to Greek language. It is a good reference point for whose who are looking for self-teching books to learn alone and improve him/herself or wants to teach and looks for suitable teching material. The offered products are divided into categories:

• languages: books on modern and ancient Greek, for young and grown-up student, dictionaries, teacher’s handbooks, books on other languages;
• riferimento: reference books such as atlases and technical handbooks;
• fiction: modern and ancient Greek literature, internationa lliterature in Greek, Greek literature in English, literature divided according to genres;

Learning Greek online

Is there a complete online Greek course completely free as well?Well, yes! There is. It seems impossible but there is. It’s on www.kypros.org. Created in cooperation with CyBC, the course is composed by 105 audio lessons (lasting about 15  minutes) enriched by notes with grammar tables and explanations related to thelistened dialogue, the audio script and a forum exclusively dealing with the opened lesson. The lessons are very short  and pleasant with a gradually harder vocabulary. You can also write a short journal on your virtual profile as long as you go on with your lesson. Everything is completely free. You just need two minutes to access: the right time to let you register your ID and password…and the game can start!

Καλό διάβασμα! (Enjy your learning)

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Starting from the scratch

Who knows how many of us have the curiosity to start learning a new language and cannot find the suitable tools…or want to learn Greek and don’t know where to start. Well!! Since learning a language as hobby, as a game, for work or for love  seems to be in fashion hte best academic teams are inventing ways, methods and courses to let you approach a language using all the nowafays available technologies. Instance of that is the work of the ILSP (Institute for Language and Speech Processing) education and research institute originated by the cooperation between the School of Philology of the University of Athens and the Electrical Engineerings of the University of Metsovo.

Greek movies

Which is the best way to learn or to improve a language, if not watching and listening to videos??It’s a funny and fruitful way to learn, improve and discover new aspects of a language and its culture. That’s why I find  http://www.greek-movies.com/ extremely useful. You can keep yourself updated about programs broadcasted by Greek TV, though you are not there. The only difficult might be the fact that all the videos are in Greek or in English, thus you need to know some of both languages.