Topic: I want to learn!

[Lauren_Elisse]

I am deeply amazed and in love with the greek and russian languages.
Sadly I have to wait until college to get started.
I would go to my parish for greek lessons, but I can't make it every week or even every month due to the distance, anyone speak either languages and english that is willing to help me with a head start?

[GabrieltheCelt]

I am deeply amazed and in love with the greek and russian languages.

 I love those languages too, but wait till you discover Romanian! Foarte frumoasa!

[ozgeorge]

I can help with Greek.
How much do you know? Do you know the alphabet? Is it mainly vocabulary & grammar you need help with?

[Heorhij]

I am deeply amazed and in love with the greek and russian languages.
Sadly I have to wait until college to get started.
I would go to my parish for greek lessons, but I can't make it every week or even every month due to the distance, anyone speak either languages and english that is willing to help me with a head start?

I can certainly help you with Russian. Ukrainian and Russian are my two equally "first" languages (my parents spoke Russian, while my retired grandfather, with whom I, as a little kid, spent perhaps even more time than with my working parents, spoke Ukrainian). My education, from kindrgarten to graduate school, was entirely in Russian.

[Lauren_Elisse]

I can help with Greek.
How much do you know? Do you know the alphabet? Is it mainly vocabulary & grammar you need help with?

I don't even know the alphabet in greek
is it larger than the american one?

[ozgeorge]

I can help with Greek.
How much do you know? Do you know the alphabet? Is it mainly vocabulary & grammar you need help with?

I don't even know the alphabet in greek
is it larger than the american one?

You mean, the English one?
Its shorter by 2 letters.

Start with the sounds of the letters, and the dipthongs (blends of two letters which make a different sound, for example, the "au" in your name would produce the sound "av" as a dipthong in Greek). Make sure that you don't learn to pronounce according to "Erasmian" Greek which was a failed attempt at a "scholarly Greek" still popular in English speaking countries.

[ytterbiumanalyst]

I can help with Greek.
How much do you know? Do you know the alphabet? Is it mainly vocabulary & grammar you need help with?

I don't even know the alphabet in greek
is it larger than the american one?

You mean, the English one?
Its shorter by 2 letters.

Oh? I learned classical Greek, which only contained 22 letters. What are the two additional letters in modern Greek?

[franthonyc]

I can help with Greek.
How much do you know? Do you know the alphabet? Is it mainly vocabulary & grammar you need help with?

I don't even know the alphabet in greek
is it larger than the american one?

You mean, the English one?
Its shorter by 2 letters.

Oh? I learned classical Greek, which only contained 22 letters. What are the two additional letters in modern Greek?

Um...

Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

That's 24. There used to be the Digamma (Ϝ), but that fell out of use before the Classical era.

[Lauren_Elisse]

So are they aligned correctly?
is the F seriously shaped as a Z?

[ozgeorge]

So are they aligned correctly?
is the F seriously shaped as a Z?

No. The Z is "Zeta" and is the "z" sound.
The "F" is Φ (21st letter).

[ozgeorge]

Here is a website where you can learn the name an pronunciation of each letter and the blended letters (digraphs) which form the dipthongs:
http://www.foundalis.com/lan/grkalpha.htm

[ytterbiumanalyst]

I can help with Greek.
How much do you know? Do you know the alphabet? Is it mainly vocabulary & grammar you need help with?

I don't even know the alphabet in greek
is it larger than the american one?

You mean, the English one?
Its shorter by 2 letters.

Oh? I learned classical Greek, which only contained 22 letters. What are the two additional letters in modern Greek?

Um...

Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

That's 24. There used to be the Digamma (Ϝ), but that fell out of use before the Classical era.

You're right; I miscounted.

[Nacho]

How's it possible to miscount if you learned classical Greek? That's like one of the first things you learn with just about any language. A Professor Emeritus should know this!

[franthonyc]

I can help with Greek.
How much do you know? Do you know the alphabet? Is it mainly vocabulary & grammar you need help with?

I don't even know the alphabet in greek
is it larger than the american one?

You mean, the English one?
Its shorter by 2 letters.

Oh? I learned classical Greek, which only contained 22 letters. What are the two additional letters in modern Greek?

Um...

Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

That's 24. There used to be the Digamma (Ϝ), but that fell out of use before the Classical era.

You're right; I miscounted.

*chuckles* I hate it when I do that sort of thing.