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Language moodboard: Greek

Greek / ελληνικά is an independent branch of the Indo-European language family. It has about 13 million native speakers and has the longest documented history of any language. It’s script is the basis for many other scripts such as the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic scipts. 

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Resources for learning Greek

Dictionaries:

greek-language

leksiko

wordreference

dict.cc

slang dictionary

PDF:

FSI Greek (1) (2) (3)

Free online material for Learning Greek

Websites:

filoglossia

greek grammar

kypros

greek language

Learning Greek Videos

greek lessons

agni

Unilang - Greek for Beginners

Goethe Verlag (Tests)

Memrise

Learn101

Ba ba dum

Duolingo (coming soon)

Wikipedia - Modern Greek Grammar

Youtube:

linaaaap1

Christos

Papaloizos Publications - Learn Greek the Easy Way

greekpod101

Easy Greek

Greek Shows for Kids (Playlist)

Greek cartoons (Playlist)

65 episodes of Pepa the Pig NON STOP

Greek Movies Comedy (Playlist)

GREEK MOVIES (Playlist)

Greek Movies. Old and new Greek Movies. (Huge Playlist)

Greek Movies 80 - 89 (Playlist)

Listening:

Greek Web TV

Greek Radio

Conjugation:

cooljugator

wiktionary

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Since masterposts for Greek are not exactly common, I figured I would make one for learning it! :D Please message me if there are any broken links, and if it needs to be updated with correct/more links I shall do so! A bold asterisk means it is recommended you check it out. c: Note: This post is entirely for learning Modern Greek, so I haven’t included any Ancient Greek resources. It is also really difficult (for me) to find Greek bands/artists that are current and are like absolutely amazing, so if anyone has recommendations, I’ll add them here. :’>

my other masterposts

another greek masterpost

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Languages Vocab in Greek

η γλώσσα - language

η μητρική γλώσσα - native language

η ξένη γλώσσα - foreign language

η διάλεκτος - dialect

η νοηματική γλώσσα - sign language

η γλωσσολογία - linguistics

ο/η γλωσσολόγος - linguist

μαθαίνω - to learn

το γλωσσομαθής - language learner

το επίθετο - adjective

το επίρρημα - adverb

το ουσιαστικό - noun

το ρήμα - verb

ο τόνος - accent mark (thanks @vasilissa-studies)

η προφορά - accent

το αλφάβητο - alphabet

το άρθρο - article

η έκφραση - expression

ο ορισμός - definition

το γράμμα - letter

το φωνήεν - vowel

το σύμφωνο - consonant

δίγλωσσος - bilingual

η διγλωσσία - bilingualism 

πολύγλωσσος - polyglot / multilingual

η πολυγλωσσία - multilingualism

μιλάω - to speak

προφέρω - to pronounce

η προφορά - pronunciation

επικοινωνώ - to communicate

ακούγομαι - to sound

Little note here: (Thanks @alife-full-of-lyrics <3) The following words are only used when you want to refer to the language. They can’t be used to express nationality. 

E.g. Μιλάω ελληνικά - I speak Greek

Είμαι Έλληνας (for males) / Ελληνίδα (for females) - I am Greek

τα (νέα) ελληνικά - (modern) greek 

small thingy here as well: you never say you speak νέα ελληνικά (aka modern greek), the word νέα is only included when speaking about linguistics or literature

τα αρχαία ελληνικά - ancient greek

τα αγγλικά - english

τα γαλλικά - french

τα γερμανικά - german

τα ισπανικά - spanish

τα πορτογαλικά - portuguese

τα ολλανδικά - dutch

τα ιταλικά - italian

τα τουρκικά - turkish

τα αραβικά - arabic

τα νορβηγικά - norwegian

τα σουηδικά - swedish

τα φινλανδικά - finnish

τα δανικά - danish

τα κινεζικά - chinese

τα κορεατικά - korean

τα ιαπωνικά - japanese

τα ρωσικά - russian

τα εβραϊκά - hebrew

τα λατινικά - latin

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Greek spring vocabulary

April - Απρίλιος

birth - η γέννηση

bee - η μέλισσα

butterfly - η πεταλούδα

warmth - η ζεστασιά

Easter - το Πάσχα

eggs - τα αυγά

flowers - τα λουλούδια

green - πράσινος

grass - το γρασίδι

to grow - καλλιεργώ

fresh - φρέσκο

lamb - το αρνί

March - Μάρτιος

May - Μάιος

sunny - ηλιόλουστος

nest - η φωλιά

rabbit - το κουνέλι

rainbow - ουράνιο τόξο

season - η εποχή

spring - η άνοιξη 

plant - το φυτό

sun - o ήλιος

bird - το πουλί

tree - το δέντρο

gardening - η κηπουρία 

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idk if someone shared this already, but here’s a neat site for studying modern greek if anyone needs it, i did a couple of lessons and it looks pretty good so far

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Present Tense Conjugation of Regular Verbs (+ To Be) in Modern Greek

Hi! This is just a quick post going over the present tense conjugation of verbs in Modern Greek that have a regular form. These verbs are very to conjugate once you learn their endings. I am also adding the verb ‘to be’ to this post because it is a vital verb to learn, even if the ending isn’t regular. It is interesting to learn that the verb to be does not have the same endings as the other irregular verbs that I’ll be trying to make posts about soon.

Conjugation of Regular Verbs in the Present Tense:

Εγώ __ω

Εσύ __εις

Αυτός/Αυτή/Αυτό __ει

Εμείς __ουμε

Εσείσ __ετε

Αυτοί/Αυτές/Αυτά __ουν

In Greek verbs have a stem onto which you can add endings to change the person or people which the statement relates to.

For exemple: 

The verb ‘to read’ in the present has the stem διαβάζ_. This means that with the endings from earlier it can be conjugated like this:

Εγώ διαβάζω   --- I read

Εσύ διαβάζεις   --- you read

Αυτός/Αυτή/Αυτό διαβαζει   --- he/she/they/it read

Εμείς διαβάζουμε   --- we read

Εσείς διαβάζετε   --- you read (plural)

Αυτοί/Αυτές/Αυτά διαβάζουν   --- they read (plural)

For regular verbs in the present tense you will notice that the tonic accent is never on the endings. This always the case for regular verbs, however for irregular verbs in the present, they may have the accent on the ending vowel. 

It should also be noted that the use of pronouns when talking is not strictly necessary. Just like in Spanish, because of the specific verb endings pronouns are somewhat obsolete. Instead they are more used to mark insistence on who is doing the action.

A lot of verbs a regular in the present. A few of these are to see (Βλέπω), to want (Θέλω) , to have (Έχω), to know (Ξέρω), to go (Πηγαίνω) and to do (Κάνω).

Conjugating the verb ‘to be’:

Εγώ είμαι   --- i am

Εσύ είσαι   --- you are

Αυτός/Αυτή/Αυτό είναι   --- he/she/they/it is

Εμείς είμαστε   --- we are

Εσείς είστε/είσαστε   --- you are (plural)

Αυτοί/Αυτές/Αυτά είναι   --- they are (plural)

The first thing you might notice is that the third person singular and plural are the same. This simply a funny quirk of the verb to be.

You might also notice that the second person plural conjugation of the verb to be has two options. This is because there are actually two ways of saying it, είστε and είσαστε. The second one was considered to not be grammatically correct when writing for a long time, therefore it was mostly used orally. However it became mostly accepted as grammatically correct in modern times and therefore the usage of both of them is interchangeable.

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Pronouns and Regular Present Verbs in Greek

Hi! This is just a quick introductory post to subject pronouns and the neutral case in Modern Greek. They’re pretty straight forward, hope you enjoy! Give me any feedback and feel free to point out any mistakes if there are any.

The Subject Pronouns:

Εγώ   --- I

Εσύ   --- You

Αυτός/ Αυτή/ Αυτό   --- He/ She/ It

Εμείς   --- We

Εσείς   --- You (plural)

Αυτοί/ Αυτές/ Αυτά   --- They (plural)

You might notice that there are few more pronouns compared to what you might be used to in English. This is because of the presence of a third gender case in Greek. The neuter or neutral case (ουδέτερο) functions the same as the masculin (αρσενικό) or feminine (θηλυκό). It is similar to the neuter case in the German language. For Αυτό, the closest translation I could think for it was the pronoun ‘it’.

For the third person plural you might notice that there are three pronouns used for the different cases just like the singular third person pronouns. This is simply because unlike in English the third person plural differentiates between if the subjects are men, women, objects or other depending on the gender of the word.

For exemple, Αυτά could be used to replace the word ‘the books’ (τα βιβλία). This is because the word for book in Greek is neutral. 

The books are ______ -------> They are _______

Τα βιβλία είναι ______ --------> Αυτά είναι ______

The same principle applies to the other genders, I simply used the neutral case here to better highlight how the neutral case might be used.

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Language Moodboard:  Νέα Ελληνικά / Modern Greek 

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i wish there was a way to tell microsoft word that i am writing in another language and i know more than you

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語彙 「ごい」 Vocabulary！～

国 「くに」 Countries:

アイスランド : Iceland

アイルランド : Ireland

アゼルバイジャン : Azerbaijan

アフガニスタン : Afghanistan

アブハジア : Republic of Abkhazia

アメリカ : United States of America

アラブ首長国連邦（しゅちょうこくれんぽう）: United Arab Emirates

アルジェリア : Algeria

アルゼンチン : Argentina

アルバニア : Albania

アルメニア : Armenia

アンゴラ : Angola

アンティグア・バーブーダ : Antigua and Barbuda

アンドラ : Andorra

イエメン : Yemen

イギリス : United Kingdom

イスラエル : Israel

イタリア : Italy

イラク : Iraq

イラン : Islamic Repubic of Iran

インド : India

インドネシア : Indonesia

ウガンダ : Uganda

ウクライナ : Ukraine

ウズベキスタン : Uzbekistan

ウルグアイ : Uruguay

エクアドル : Ecuador

エジプト : Egypt

エストニア : Estonia

エチオピア : Ethiopia

エリトリア : Eritrea

エルサルバドル : El Salvador

沿（そい）ドニエストル : Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR)

オーストラリア : Australia

オーストリア : Austria

オマーン : Oman

オランダ : the Netherlands

ガーナ : Ghana

カーボベルデ : Cape Verde

ガイアナ : Guyana

カザフスタン : Kazakhstan

カタール : Qatar

カナダ : Canada

ガボン : Gabon

カメルーン : Cameroon

韓国（かんこく）: Republic of Korea (South Korea)

ガンビア : Gambia

カンボジア : Cambodia

北（きた）キプロス : Northern Cyprus

北朝鮮（きたちょうせん）: Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)

ギニア : Guinea

ギニアビサウ : Guinea-Bissau

キプロス : Cyprus

キューバ : Cuba

ギリシャ : Greece

キリバス : Kiribati

キルギス : Kyrgyzstan

グアテマラ : Guatemala

クウェート : Kuwait

クック諸島（しょとう） : Cook Islands

グレナダ : Grenada

クロアチア : Croatia

ケニア : Kenya

コートジボワール : Côte d'lvoire

コスタリカ : Costa Rica

コソボ : Kosovo

コモロ : Comoros

コロンビア : Colombia

コンゴ共和国 （きょうわこく）: Congo

コンゴ民主共和国（みんしゅきょうわこく） : Democratic Republic of the Congo

サウジアラビア : Saudi Arabia

サモア : Samoa

サントメ・プリンシペ : Sao Tome and Principe

ザンビア : Zambia

サンマリノ : San Marino

シエラレオネ : Sierra Leone

ジブチ : Djibouti

ジャマイカ : Jamaica

ジョージア : Georgia

シリア : Syrian Arab Republic

シンガポール : Singapore

ジンバブエ : Zimbabwe

スイス : Switzerland

スウェーデン : Sweden

スーダン : Sudan

スペイン : Spain

スリナム : Suriname

スリランカ : Sri Lanka

スロバキア : Slovakia

スロベニア : Slovenia

スワジランド : Swaiziland

セーシェル : Seychelles

赤道（せきどう）ギニア : Equatorial Guinea

セネガル : Senegal

セルビア : Serbia

セントクリストファー・ネイビス : Saint Kitts and Nevis

セントビンセントおよびグレナディーン諸島（しょとう）: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

セントルシア : Saint Lucia

ソマリア : Somalia

ソマリランド : Republic of Somaliland

ソロモン諸島（しょとう）: Solomon Islands

タイ : Thailand

台湾（たいわん）: Taiwan

タジキスタン : Tajikistan

タンザニア : United Republic of Tanzania

チェコ : Czechia/Czech Republic

チャド : Chad

中央（ちゅうおう）アフリカ共和国（きょうわこく）: Central African Republic

中国（ちゅうごく）: China

チュニジア : Tunisia

チリ : Chile

ツバル : Tuvalu

デンマーク : Denmark

ドイツ : Germany

トーゴ : Togo

ドミニカ共和国（きょうわこく）: Dominican Republic

ドミニカ国（こく）: Dominica

トリニダード・トバゴ : Trinidad and Tobago

トルクメニスタン : Turkmenistan

トルコ : Turkey

トンガ : Tonga

ナイジェリア : Nigeria

ナウル : Nauru

ナゴルノ・カラバフ : Nagorno Karabakh/ Republic of Artsakh

ナミビア : Namibia

ニウエ : Niue

ニカラグア : Nicaragua

ニジェール : Niger

西（にし）サハラ : Western Sahara

日本（にほん）: Japan

ニュージーランド : New Zealand

ネパール : Nepal

ノルウェー : Norway

バーレーン : Bahrain

ハイチ : Haiti

パキスタン : Pakistan

バチカン : Vatican City State

パナマ : Panama

バヌアツ : Vanuatu

バハマ : Bahamas

パプアニューギニア : Papua New Guinea

パラオ : Palau

パラグアイ : Paraguay

バルバドス : Barbados

パレスチナ : Occupied Palestinian Territory

ハンガリー : Hungary

バングラデシュ : Bangladesh

東（ひがし）ティモール : Timor-Leste

フィジー : Fiji

フィリピン : Philippines

フィンランド : Finland

ブータン : Bhutan

ブラジル : Brazil

フランス : France

ブルガリア : Bulgaria

ブルキナファソ : Burkina Faso

ブルネイ : Brunei Darussalam

ブルンジ : Burundi

ベトナム : Vietnam

ベナン : Benin

ベネズエラ : Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

ベラルーシ : Belarus

ベリーズ : Belize

ペルー : Peru

ベルギー : Belgium

ポーランド : Poland

ボスニア・ヘルツェゴビナ : Bosnia and Herzegovina

ボツワナ : Botswana

ボリビア : Plurinational State of Bolivia

ポルトガル : Portugal

ホンジュラス : Honduras

マケドニア旧（きゅう）ユーゴスラビア共和国 （きょうわこく）: Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

マーシャル諸島 （しょとう）: Marshall Islands

マダガスカル : Madagascar

マラウイ : Malawi

マリ : Mali

マルタ : Malta

マレーシア : Malaysia

ミクロネシア連邦（れんぽ） : Federated States of Micronesia

南（みなみ）アフリカ : South Africa

南（みなみ）オセチア : South Ossetia

南（みなみ）スーダン : South Sudan

ミャンマー : Myanmar

メキシコ : Mexico

モーリシャス : Mauritius

モーリタニア : Mauritania

モザンビーク : Mozambique

モナコ : Monaco

モルディブ : Maldives

モルドバ : Republic of Maldova

モロッコ : Morocco

モンゴル : Mongolia

モンテネグロ : Montenegro

ヨルダン : Jordan

ラオス : Lao People's Democratic Republic/Laos

ラトビア : Latvia

リトアニア : Lithuania

リビア : Libya

リヒテンシュタイン : Liechtenstein

リベリア : Liberia

ルーマニア : Romania

ルクセンブルク : Luxembourg

ルワンダ : Rwanda

レソト : Lesotho

レバノン : Lebanon

ロシア : Russian Federation/ Russia

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A language learning concept: Learn the language of the Eurovision winner for a year until the competition in the other year is on.

Pros: UK never wins anyways so no need to waste a year learning a language you already know..

Cons: none.

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“A lot of native speakers are happy that English has become the world’s global language. They feel they don’t have to spend time learning another language,” says Chong.

“But… often you have a boardroom full of people from different countries communicating in English and all understanding each other and then suddenly the American or Brit walks into the room and nobody can understand them.”

The non-native speakers, it turns out, speak more purposefully and carefully, typical of someone speaking a second or third language. Anglophones, on the other hand, often talk too fast for others to follow, and use jokes, slang and references specific to their own culture, says Chong. In emails, they use baffling abbreviations such as ‘OOO’, instead of simply saying that they will be out of the office.

“The native English speaker… is the only one who might not feel the need to accommodate or adapt to the others,” she adds.

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Friendship ended with they/them, hän is now my new best friend.

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months in finnish

let’s start with seasons of the year

winter - talvi

spring - kevät

summer - kesä

autumn (fall) - syksy

and the word kuu means the Moon

talvi (winter):

december - joulukuu

Joulu now is Christmas, but goes back much further than that, to the pre-Christian Yule feast. In Finland (and also the Scandinavian languages), the feast was not renamed to a more “Christian” sounding name, but instead one feast has just replaced the other without a name change.

january - tammikuu

Tammi means oak, but in some dialects also means heart or core, which is the root of this name.

february - helmikuu

Helmi means pearl, and the name comes from icy pearls frozen to twigs and branches you can often see glinting in the sunlight in this month.

kevät (spring):

march - maaliskuu

Maa means the ground, maallinen means earthy. This is the month where normally snow melts for the first time, and the bare ground with no vegetation on it yet is visible.

april - huhtikuu

Huhta is cleared woodland. In this month, woodland was burned and cleared to make space for new fields.

may - toukokuu

Touko is the seed and planting time, which obviously happens in May.

kesä (summer):

june - kesäkuu

Kesä means summer, June is the first month of summer in Finland, and also the midsummer month. Well, that would be too easy, wouldn’t it? And it doesn’t correspond to the farming names of surrounding months. Therefore, it is more likely, that this name comes from “kesanto”, which is fallow ground. In June, fallow fields are ploughed for the first time.

july - heinäkuu

Heinä is hay, and July is the month when the hay is cut and brought in.

august - elokuu

Elo means life, but is also an old word for crop, and this is the harvest month.

autumn (syksy):

september - syyskuu

Syys is a poetic word for autumn, and this is the first month of autumn.

october - lokakuu

Loka means mud – in October it rains and snows a lot, creating muddy ground.

november - marraskuu

Marras is an archaic word for dead or the soul of a dead person.

So, the months in Finnish are: Core Moon, Pearl Moon, Ground Moon, Clearing Moon, Planting Moon, Fallow Moon (or Summer Moon), Hay Moon, Harvest Moon, Autumn Moon, Mud Moon, Dead Moon, Christmas Moon.