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2009-01-04, 14:50

el_caballo_oscuro el_caballo_oscuro is offline

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Greek

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Hi,
I'm thinking of learning Greek out of interest. I've studied Japanese for about 4 years now and spanish for 2. I enjoy both, mostly due to thier simple grammer and phonetics (to me, being british anglophonic). Would Greek offer the same advantages? I have a feeling it may actuly be quite difficult (high school latin springing to mind) but in all honesty I have no idea.

Thanks in advance.
-S

2009-01-04, 19:11

Yggdrasil

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Jötunheim

Re: Greek

In my experience, the language's vocabulary and structure is quite different to what I'm used to studying, which are all European languages. Since you have experience with non Indo-European languages, I guess you'd be better adapted to take on a language like Greek, which will undoubtedly be no easy feat. For example, in Greek, there is a high tendency to form extremely long words by compounding, much like in German. Yikes EEK!

2009-01-04, 19:37

CosmicZombie CosmicZombie is offline

Acolyte

Outer Space

Re: Greek

Well I am Greek and it is a hard language. Everything has a gender, so it changes the accent of the word and what not its similar to french and Russian because Greeks made those languages for those people.

2009-01-05, 13:11

slippyfist slippyfist is offline

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Re: Greek

Quote:

Originally Posted by el_caballo_oscuro

Greek goes like this, every noun has a gender, based on the gender, theres 3 ways to say 'The' 2 ways to say 'a'.

Based on the gender of a word, the ENDING of the adjective changes.

In a sentence pro-verbs also come before verbs so a setence would sound like this.

The fish not is white.