is Greek language difficult?

Jessie mou do you speak greek?

Darijas.Rouvas. wrote:

Jessie mou do you speak greek?

Not really. Lol.

As more as I learn and practice, greek language becomes easier to me.. heh.. I learned how to read greek for only 2 hours
(I'm reading very slowly,but as more as I practice,I'll get faster reading..)
Now I think that non-language is hard to learn if someone has a huge wish to learn it. I thought it will be very hard to understand all those weird letters in greek alphabet, but I learned them very quick..
And it's interesting..

That's good 2 hear Darijas.

I have just seen that Greek is actually one of the subjects available in my college course. I am now VERY annoyed that I'm not in first year again and I could have studied it for one year.

Here I send THE ANCIENT GREEK ALPHABET



Personally, I think that the Greek language is not difficult, because it is the Language Mother of many later languages like the French, Italian, English, etc.
Reason why we conserve many common roots to many languages of the world.



The Greek language comes from the common origin to all the western ones: The Indo-European Language of the Asian Nomads, in century V before C (Indo-European III).

Which was divided in several languages, among them Hellenic who born approximately in the 3000 before C, and wich origined various greeks dialects as well: Ionian, doric, aqueo, attic.

EVOLUTION OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE:
Indo-European family > Anciant Greek (all his dialects) > Koiné > Greek Medieval or Byzantine > Greek Modern
THE MODERN GREEK ALPHABET ( video Phonetic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNbkI2kb1NE )



Today we spoke, in the West, those derivations:


EVOLUTION OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE WORLD:

Pictographys --> Indo-European language --> Indo-European III Western + Phoenician --> Greek (Indo-European Western III A) --> Latin Language (Indo-European Western III B, and with this born: French, English, German, Slavs) --> Italian (Etruscan + Latin + Greek) --> Spanish. Each with own typical of each place and according to each family.



So, with your attention, each word conserves common sounds, reason why it is not difficult to learn it.

Interesting info there Vanina. Thanks 4 it as well as the alphabet.

Very interesting piece of info there Vanina.

Hehe this is fantastic! As Serbian lang. has many things in common with greek, execpt basic learning, grammar, words, vacabulary, I've learned many things about greek language history in my serbian class. Amazing stuff there

Darijas.Rouvas. wrote:

As Serbian lang. has many things in common
with greek, execpt basic learning, grammar, words, vacabulary,

Interesting.

wpghi5 wrote:

Darijas.Rouvas. wrote:

As Serbian lang. has many things in common
with greek, execpt basic learning, grammar, words, vacabulary,

Interesting.

I think yo u didn't understand....
I said that I learned more about greek language history in my serbian class, leaving behind basic learning, grammar, words, vacabulary, which we don't learn on the class. I meant that together with grammar etc. stuff I learned by myself, I also learnt history if GL.

Darijas.Rouvas. wrote:

wpghi5 wrote:

Darijas.Rouvas. wrote:

As Serbian lang. has many things in common
with greek, execpt basic learning, grammar, words, vacabulary,

Interesting.

I think yo u didn't understand....
I said that I learned more about greek language history in my serbian class, leaving behind basic learning, grammar, words, vacabulary, which we don't learn on the class. I meant that together with grammar etc. stuff I learned by myself, I also learnt history if GL.

Oh I c. I must've misinterpret it there. Sry about that. Probably should've not responded on it.

Heh it's fine..

Well ... if you're living in Greece, are in love then you have the best motivation to learn ... I was fluent at speeking greek in the first six months !!!

That's very quick Tunde.

Thanks, Mo (may i call you Mo?) !
If you have the right motivation ... !!! And i had the best motivation of all for sure - he is my husbend now !!!
Thanks again...

Of course you can Tunde, nearly everyone calls me that here.

Darijas.Rouvas. wrote:

Heh it's fine..

Moldienut wrote:

That's very quick Tunde.

Very impressive!

danari wrote:

And i had the best motivation of all for sure - he is my husbend now !!!

That explains it!