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Re: Modern Greek Study Group

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 7:40 pm
by JohannaNYC
Γεια σας! Με λένε Johanna and I've been studying Greek on and off (more off than on) for about 2 years. I'm still very much a beginner, hoping to be conversational by the summer now that I'm finally gonna study it on a regular basis.

Currently, I'm only using Duolingo and Mango Languages, but I plan on re-starting Hippocrene's Beginner's Greek, Michel Thomas and the F-L-R course. I've also started Goldlisting some of the sentences from Duo and Mango.

What I'm missing right now is some TV shows to watch. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Modern Greek Study Group

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 7:46 pm
by hagestolz
Welcome to the group, Johanna. Wishing you all the best in your Greek journey - I just finished the Michel Thomas yesterday and found it really useful. I was interested to read that you use the Goldlist method, as it has served me very well over the past 2-3 years, especially with writing Greek and some Russian by hand.

Re: Modern Greek Study Group

Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 8:53 pm
by Theodisce
JohannaNYC wrote:What I'm missing right now is some TV shows to watch. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.


Χαρά αγνοείται is a great series, probably one of the best I've seen so far.

Re: Modern Greek Study Group

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 4:45 pm
by JohannaNYC
Theodisce wrote:
JohannaNYC wrote:What I'm missing right now is some TV shows to watch. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.


Χαρά αγνοείται is a great series, probably one of the best I've seen so far.


Ευχαριστώ πολύ! This should keep me busy for a while.

Re: Modern Greek Study Group

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 5:04 pm
by JohannaNYC
hagestolz wrote:Welcome to the group, Johanna. Wishing you all the best in your Greek journey - I just finished the Michel Thomas yesterday and found it really useful. I was interested to read that you use the Goldlist method, as it has served me very well over the past 2-3 years, especially with writing Greek and some Russian by hand.



I used to do (and still do) Lucas's bi-translation method, but once I translated back into my TL I never saw those sentences again. The GM gives me some continuation for those sentences. I consider it a must for languages with a different writing system.

Re: Modern Greek Study Group

Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2019 3:29 pm
by Sunday
Hi there!

first post ever on this forum. Very glad I found a Greek study group! I am currently using assimil + language transfer and I started a few months ago. Let's see where this takes me.

Looking forward to read about your progresses and share mine.

Cheers.

Re: Modern Greek Study Group

Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2019 10:01 pm
by Neurotip
Sunday wrote:Hi there!

first post ever on this forum. Very glad I found a Greek study group! I am currently using assimil + language transfer and I started a few months ago. Let's see where this takes me.

Benvenuto/a Sunday! Sounds like we started at very nearly the same time. I've done LT and I'm now using Living Language. What's the Assimil course like?

Re: Modern Greek Study Group

Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:21 pm
by Sunday
Neurotip wrote:
Sunday wrote:Hi there!

first post ever on this forum. Very glad I found a Greek study group! I am currently using assimil + language transfer and I started a few months ago. Let's see where this takes me.

Benvenuto/a Sunday! Sounds like we started at very nearly the same time. I've done LT and I'm now using Living Language. What's the Assimil course like?


Good for vocabulary and practice. I would say it requires some pre-existing grammar knowledge or the difficulty spikes up too quickly. Dialogues are not super exciting but still ok!

Re: Modern Greek Study Group

Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2019 1:55 pm
by Austin K.
Greek, is something i wish to learn , i have no mentor, i need to work hard

Re: Modern Greek Study Group

Posted: Fri Mar 22, 2019 5:33 pm
by Neurotip
Sunday wrote:
Neurotip wrote:What's the Assimil course like?

Good for vocabulary and practice. I would say it requires some pre-existing grammar knowledge or the difficulty spikes up too quickly. Dialogues are not super exciting but still ok!

Sounds pretty similar to Living Language then. I'm very glad I did Language Transfer first.