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Practice, learn modern Greek and test yourself using this blog.

Learn greek language

Learn Greek:
1) Pick a category/ conversation on right of the screen.
This will brig up a list of blog posts about that topic.

Many of the individual blog headings are in Greek and you can react to them as if you are in a conversation; answer the question or make a comment.

2) For each question or statement, right click and open a comments page in a new tab.

If you’d like to reply, right click on the comments link and open up comments in a new tab.  This allows you to keep the original page and you can come back to that.
3)Write out your answer or comment.
4)Close the tab and return to the chosen category page for the next question or statement.

I aim to stimulate you practicing Greek in the following ways:

• Asking you questions with some translation and encouraging you to use the comments box to answer;
• giving you polls in English and/or Greek and encouraging you to;
• provide a sequence of questions in a “conversation” to provide context;
• increase the volume and variety of topics and learning areas as the blog grows;
• encouarge your feedback of questions (ideally in Greek and English), corrections and suggestions;
• encourage working together with a friend over the phone now that you both have common materials;
• to be able to use tags to find many examples of pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar areas immediately; and
• Making statements to encourage you to respond and practice vocabulary and grammar.

By providing a mix of English / Greek and text / audio / video, I aim to help us practice:

• by using Greek only as far as possible;
• actively and taking more risks, knowing no one is watching and prompts are available, but challenging yourself to hide prompts unless needed;
• by using Greek first before reverting to English where necessary;
• to follow what’s happening while having some context or translation help; and
• in using grammar and vocabulary in simulated situations or themed sequences.

Use links and categories to find groups of blogs.

Use tags to find groups of related pronunciation and grammar blogs.  I aim to mark a useful number of instance of each topic, not all cases.

• Pronunciation: letters and groups of letters
• Grammar:
  • tense
  • parts of a sentence
  • articles: definite and indefinite
  • categories; masculine/ feminine / neuter
  • numbers; singular / plural
  • cases: nominative, genitive, accusative, vocative
• Vocabulary: First 100 words; First 1,000 words;
• Verbs: First 25 verbs; First 250 verbs; regular/ irregular

Toggle posts

On the top right of most pages is the button “Toggle posts”.  If this is set to “+”, the you will only see the post headings (set it to “-” to see the blog post’s excerpt or the message content).

Please comment if you’re still not clear how to practice, learn Greek and test yourself using this blog.