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Andy’s Quest to Learn Greek

Andy’s Quest to Learn Greek

by Harry G. on Jan 26, 2012 in Greek Language

One of our Greektionary.com subscribers sent us an email the other day asking us if we could share his blog with the rest of you. We realized that many other Greek language enthusiasts might benefit by reading about some of Andy’s experiences during his quest to learn the Greek language. We hope you enjoy reading [...]

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Greek Video Lessons

Greek Video Lessons

by Harry G. on Nov 25, 2011 in Greek Language, Learn Greek

In an effort to make it easier for all our visitors to learn Greek, we have decided to post a few Greek language video lessons. This first video that our wonderful assistant Voula put together, references some of the more common greeting expressions. If you enjoyed this video, let us know what else you want [...]

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Greektionary on Facebook and Twitter

by Harry G. on May 28, 2011 in Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek, Greek Entertainment, Greek Language, Greek Music, Modern Greek

Learn to speak Greek on Facebook and Twitter

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How To Learn A New Language

by Harry G. on May 25, 2011 in Greek Language, How To

How to learn a new language. Do’s and don’ts for picking up a new language.

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Useful Greek Phrases

by Harry G. on Jul 05, 2010 in Greek Language, Modern Greek

Multiple resources for learning Greek exist online. The following video teaches some useful Greek phrases that you will certainly find informative. We will be posting similar videos in the near future. If this method of learning Greek is helpful to you, visit our online store at Greek Store and check out the Modern Greek section. [...]

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8 Easy Steps to Writing Greek in Windows

by Harry G. on Jun 18, 2010 in Greek Language, How To

One of the questions we get a lot is: How can we type in Greek fonts on a Windows machine? Here are the 8-simple steps you need to follow on a Windows machine: Step 1 Go to Start, Control Panel, Region and Language Step 2 Click on the Keyboards and Languages tab and then Change [...]

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Modern Greek Studies at the University of Illinois

by Harry G. on Jun 09, 2010 in Greek Culture, Greek Language

The following is a brief description of the recently-established Greek-Studies program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We would like to thank Konstantino Yfanti for bringing this to our attention. This is indeed a worthy cause and we encourage everyone to support their effort. Established in 2008, the program in Modern Greek Studies at [...]

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The fall of Greeklish!

by Harry G. on Jun 08, 2010 in Greek Language, Modern Greek

I was searching around for a definition of Greeklish and, as usual, wikipedia came to the rescue. According to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeklish article: Greeklish, a portmanteau of the words Greek and English, also known as Grenglish, Latinoellinika/Λατινοελληνικά or ASCII Greek, is Greek language written with the Latin alphabet. Unlike standardized systems of Romanization of Greek, as [...]

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History of Greektionary.com

by Harry G. on May 28, 2010 in General, Greek Language

I distinctly remember the day when Adoni K. (one of the three co-creators of Greektionary.com) conveyed to us his vision of a website that would attempt to teach the Greek language to all interested parties in an intuitive and enjoyable manner. Pete H. (the other co-creator) and I, were instantly persuaded to go along for [...]

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What is Modern Greek?

by Harry G. on May 27, 2010 in Ancient Greek, Modern Greek

We looked around for a while before we all agreed on what a decent definition of Modern Greek was. In any case, the following excerpt was something that sounded plausible. We would be interested to hear your opinions on the matter. “Modern Greek stems directly from the Attic kini and dates from the fall of [...]

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