A stroll through modern Greek

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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Thu May 04, 2023 12:35 pm

Lesson 62 today, Μια ενδιαφέρουσα συνάντηση (= An interesting encounter). Also reviewed lessons 60, 57, and 52.

The lessons are definitely getting longer and faster but I don't feel overwhelmed yet. I feel like the density of new grammar content is going down, probably because so much has been covered already.

Time spent on Greek: 97 hours (in 80 days)
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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Fri May 05, 2023 12:01 pm

Lesson 63, an Επανάληψη (= review) lesson. This one was pretty light going for once, covering mostly the formation of participles and adjectives from verbs. Should be quite useful as well.

Also reviewed lessons 61, 58, and 53.

I took a look at Η Καθημερινή (Greek newspaper) today. Still pretty darn opaque. The road is long but I'm enjoying walking it. :-)

Time spent on Greek: 99 hours (in 81 days)
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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Sun May 07, 2023 1:48 am

Lesson 64 today, Το χάρισμα των γλωσσών (= The gift/talent for languages). My humanities education (philosophy major) randomly comes in handy once again as I understand the new word απορία (= puzzlement, doubt) without needing the translation on the right hand side.

I started using Anki again. I'm adding words, phrases, and collocations from the "active phase" lesson (lesson 15 today) to an EN -> EL deck. I find NL -> TL work so much satisfying than the reverse. Anyone else?

Time spent on Greek: 101 hours (in 82 days)
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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Mon May 08, 2023 11:11 am

Forgot to log my time here yesterday, but I spent about two hours on Greek, doing lesson 65 as well as reviewing some older lessons.

Lesson 66 today, Ξεκινάνε οι εκπτώσεις (= The sales begin). That κπτ cluster is a bit of a mouthful! New vocabulary relating to clothes (τα ρούχα) and buying and selling. This one was pretty easy compared to the last few, I found.

Put lesson 17 in my "active" (EN -> EL) deck today.

Time spent on Greek: 104 hours (in 84 days).

Almost three months now and the study streak is still unbroken. :-)
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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Tue May 09, 2023 2:43 pm

Lesson 67 today, Το πολυκατάστημα (= The department store). Vocabulary for buying and selling, and financial conditions (bankruptcy, joblessness).

άνεργος -η -ο: unemployed
η χρεοκοπία: bankruptcy (στο χείλος χρεοκοπίας = on the edge of bankruptcy)
το χρέος: debt

Another one that wasn't too tough. Still getting used to how some of the words get pushed together in the spoken language, for example in this lesson γιατί είχα (= because I had) is just /ʝa.'ti.xa/.

Added lesson 18 to my active deck.

Time spent on Greek: 106 ώρες (σε 85 μέρες)
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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Wed May 10, 2023 11:47 am

Lesson 68 this morning, Στα δοκιμαστήρια (= In the dressing rooms). This one covered talking about clothes and how they "fit." I'm surprised the verb δοκιμάζω (= to attempt, to test out, to taste) had never come up until now! Should come in handy.

Another good one: επιμένω (= to insist, persist).

Put lesson 19 into my active deck.

Time spent on Greek: 107 hours, 30 minutes (in 86 days)
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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Thu May 11, 2023 12:29 pm

Lesson 69 today, Τσάι ή καφέ; (= Tea or coffee?). This one was about diet and exercise.

καταφέρνω = to succeed, "manage" to do something, se débrouiller

Put lesson 20 into my active Anki deck (26 cards).

Time spent on Greek: 109 hours, 15 minutes (in 87 days)
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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Fri May 12, 2023 3:03 am

Seriously, Greek? πρόγονος is "ancestor" and προγονός is "stepson?" Why?!

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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Fri May 12, 2023 11:46 am

Lesson 70 today, an επανάληψη (= review) lesson. Mostly it was going over how to form the perfect in different tenses and voices, which was fairly straightforward. Also went over adjectives in -υς.

I looked back at lessons 68, 65, and 60: some of them are heavy going in terms of the density of new vocabulary. I haven't been sleeping well the past few days, which I think is affecting my attention span and making new words not stick as well as they should. Gotta work on that...

Time spent on Greek: 111 hours (in 88 days)
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Re: A stroll through modern Greek

Postby tastyonions » Sun May 14, 2023 11:46 am

Forgot to log my time here yesterday, but I did lesson 71 and spent about 1 hour, 30 minutes studying Greek.

This morning is lesson 72, Ντροπαλός και κούκλος (= Shy and cute). Vocabulary centered around affection, "crushes," and such. Some terms that stuck out:

πρέπει να το παραδέχθω = I have to admit
έχω λίγη αδυναμία σε... = I have a (bit of a) weakness for...
η αδυναμία = weakness (literal and metaphorical senses)

I've studied about an hour so far today, which brings me to: 113 hours, 30 minutes (in 90 days)

Three straight months, nice! And no intention of breaking this streak anytime soon. :-)
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