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nea (νεα) means "young" or "news" (i.e. εχεις νεα; 'do you have news?' or; ειναι νεος σκιλος 'it's a young dog") Greeks would say : εχω καινουρια γυαλγια /καινουριος σκιλος. Also the part about how Giannis loves Maria is wrong, I don't know if it can work with different words, but the last two examples make no sense at all, and I believe all three examples are actually wrong. (@9:00) you can not say "O Giannis ti Maria agapaei" (Ο Γιαννης τη Μαρια αγαπαει.) I can think of weird cases for the first one in the example : τη Μαρια αγαπαει Ο Γιαννης. This could work as an answer to the question : "who does Giannis love?" and "τη Μαρια" would be at the start just to put emphasis. the other two I can not think of a possible way to make them work tbh.
To answer your question, it is possible for a greek today to understand a lot of ancient Greek, only if he knows very (very very) well modern Greek to find the connections and locate the differences among the two eras. Unfortunatly this is not the rule nowadays, because most of the Greeks only learn and speak greek as native language and only few of them are studying (new) greek and mostly for professional reasons, for example, students, teachers, lawyers, priests (In Greece the Bible is written in anciend Greek) There is also some greek dialects they are relatively closer to anciend greek but even the people who are speaking theese dialects sometimes don't know to define the connections with ancient Greek. Things are way better when you set someone who knows anciend Greek, with someone who only speaks greek as native language and with "small" explainations, then is he more familiar with it and understands a lot more and easy. A small tip: if you pronounce "Κοινή" as "koine" nobody in Greece will understand you because "ο+ι" makes an "i" and this should be pronounced "kini". This hapends because in all over the world (but not in Greece) if someone want to learn and studies anciend Greek, is learning greek with "Erasmian" pronounce. This term comes from a Dutch scholar, who tought ancient Greek in universities in Germany and England, named Desiderius Erasmus Geert who lived (1466-1536) at the time when the Byzantine Empire was just fallen and was conquered from the Othomans. For his complicated reasons, he claimed that the right pronounce of the greek diphthongs ει,οι,αυ,ευ,ου,αι (greek word δίφθογγος) should be separate as two vowel. This is a reason also when tourists are coming in Greece and saying that they have learned anciend Greek at the school or university nobody can understand them what they are trying to say. Thank You for the nice video
Coen80, I would argue that "την Μαρία αγαπάει ο Γιάννης" and "ο Γιάννης την Μαρία αγαπάει" are used, but usually not standalone. In a phrase like "Αφού την Μαρία αγαπάει ο Γιάννης ρε Κώστα, όχι την Ελένη", or "Αφού ο Γιάννης την Μαρία αγαπάει ρε Κώστα..." to change the focus of the emphasis, but the 4th example is probably not used at all. About the news, we use both, depending on the occasion. For example, we can say "η καινούρια προσφορά", or "η νέα προφορά". Ο Σκύλος με υ...
@@skoy21 Grrrrr these ypsilons! ;) Five different ways to write 'i' is a confusing thing. Though I have most trouble with the ypsilon, because there doesn't seem to be a clear ruling on when it's used (unlike η or οι for example) Thanks for clarifying that grammar part and for producing some actual examples.
Your name in Greek is Παύλος. (Paulos)
As a Chinese, I am embarrassed to see some of my compatriots asserting that the Ancient Greek Civilization was a hoax. I have my sincere respect for Greece and the Greek people -- for preserving one of the oldest languages ever spoken.
"As a Chinese, I am embarrassed to see some of my compatriots asserting that the Ancient Greek Civilization was a hoax." There is definately an intresting conspiracy theory issue here: can u please b more specific?
Apparently some Chinese scholars in the 90s created the idea that all Western civilizations were based on lies - Ancient Greek was just a bunch of conspiracies directed by Germans, Turkish, and specifically Jews. Later this theory developed further that all other civilizations except the Chinese were either made up or largely exaggerated. These people clearly believe that Confucius was already inventing telescope and devising models of modern technologies.
Stone Chen Not one of the oldests xd
Clearly this theory has nothing to do with Hitler's race bullshit, it was just some idiotic Chinese scholars believing Chinese civilization was the most superior and therefore finding reasons to reject all others.
Stone Chen your Chinese scholars are right. Chinese Civilisation had all been above other nations till West Europeans started to colonize third world nations (I'm Turkish. Consider this comment as a confession of a young Turkish patriot whose nation always lost to you. Your Civilisation is the only one that I personally both hate and respect). You are just underestimating Asiatic nations due to Western Civilisations late barbaric achievements. By the way, we don't have any business with the Greek history, just been their bodyguards almost for four centuries.
A lot of Greek communities in Canada are celebrating Greek Day that just happen a few days ago. Happy Independence Day, Greece! From Canada
It's not greek day,it is a celebration for the revolution of 1821. But it's ok, not everyone know it. 😊😊😊
If you need to know, after more than four centuries enslaved to the Ottoman Empire (Turks), the Greeks revolted in 1821 and gained their independence in 1828.
the celebration of 1821 it's in 25 of march it was the start the war and by the way and it's was chosen because it was supposed to the day Mary mother of Jesus got pregnant so it's a double holiday if you are G.O.C.
Love our Greek oldest friends and neighbours, from EGYPT
Love to Egypt!!
you are right! oldest friends in the world I guess....
Ancient brothers, greetings from Greece
Love and kisses to Egypt from Greece
@@dimitristourtouropoulos8917 Do you want more Roman cities in Greece😅
I'm from Brazil and the Greek language is very beauty for me. Love from Brazil to Greece. 🇧🇷♥️🇬🇷🇨🇾
Abraços da Grécia gato/a!
Σε ευχαριστούμε που μαθαίνεις τη γλώσσα μας! Χαιρετίσματα από την Κύπρο🇨🇾
I'm Greek from Cyprus and I would like to assure you that we also LOVE Brazil. 🇧🇷♥🇬🇷🇨🇾
Oi gatu tu du being? I hope that was correct 😅 It was one of the first phrases my Brazilian friends here in Greece showed me. 🇬🇷❤️🇧🇷
@@panoskarelas437 prolabe na to edittareis: oi gato tudo bem?*
Fun fact: China is one of very few countries that call Greece according to "Hellas". It would be "Xila" in Mandarin and "Heelap" in Cantonese.
manihot we salute China
"hei leep" to be exact in Cantonese
+雨琛涂: Xila is the natural sound change for the syllable "hi" in many dialects including the standard pronunciation. Names like Hillary, Hitler all use "xi" as well.
In Hindi, Greece is called Yunan (Greeks were known as Yona/Yavana in ancient India) it derives from Ionia.
manihot If you are Chineese, then can you tell me, What is your correct name cause I have heard that China is not your correct name.
Είμαι από την Ουγγαρία και τα ελληνικά είναι η αγαπημένη μου ξένη γλώσσα. Ελπίζω να μπορείτε να καταλάβετε αυτό που έγραψα 😂
Hello, my Magyar friend. Nice to see a foreigner having Greek as their favorite foreign language. Just a small correction. The verb "ελπίζω" is followed by "να", not "ότι". And there's an "αυτό" missing there. So, it's "ελπίζω να καtαλάβατε αυτό που έγραψα". Well done though. Also your diction is better than a lot native speakers' :P
@@notquitemytempo1353 wow thank you so much for the correction! I'll edit it
Τέλεια το έγραψες😃😃
@@notquitemytempo1353 Αυτο εχει γραψει Νομιζω οτι απλα δεν το προσεξες , εκτος κι αν εκανε edit την προταση μετα!!!
@@jameskarst7666 Ε προφανώς έκανε edit, το γράφει και δίπλα στο σχόλιό του, αλλιώς για ποιο λόγο να έγραφα αυτό που έγραψα.
Αποφάσισα να μάθω ελληνικά μόνος μου αυτόν τον Ιανουάριο και μέχρι στιγμής ξέρω να διαβάζω άπταιστα, παίρνω τις περισσότερες λέξεις, αλλά έχω ακόμα πολύ δρόμο να διανύσω. Το λατρεύω, είναι ενδιαφέρον. Αγάπη από τη Ρομάνια! 🇷🇴
Αποφάσισα να μάθω ελληνικά μόνος μου αυτόν τον Ιανουάριο και μέχρι στιγμής ξέρω να διαβάζω άπταιστα, ΚΑΤΑΛΑΒΑΙΝΩ τις περισσότερες λέξεις, αλλά έχω ακόμα πολύ δρόμο να διανύσω. ΤΑ λατρεύω, είναι ενδιαφέρον.ΜΕ Αγάπη από τη Ρουμανία! Τα πηγαίνεις πολύ καλά!
How were you able to pick it up so quickly?
as a Greek native, i'm genuinely impressed, keep it uo
Mult succes frate ! Καλή επιτυχία αδελφέ!
Παιδιά μπράβο σας! Αυτό που κάνετε είναι πολύ δύσκολο! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
"I want to continue learning Greek because it unlocks the soul". Words of a Belgian teenage girl. So spontaneous and so very true.
Ειμε από ενα χωριο της Ιαπωνίας και προσαθο να μάθω Ελληνικά. Η χώρα αυτή τησ Ελλαδος είναι πανέμορφη και γεμάτη σοφυα και γνοση. Δεν ειμε Ελλην αλλά εύχομαι να ιμουν. Μου αρέσει πολλή αυτή η γλώσσα και εύχομαι να μιλαο ακόμη καλλιτερα στο ένδοξο μέλον. Ελπίζω να τα καταφέρνο.. Εσις οι Ελλην δώσατε σοφια και πολιτισμο σαι ολόκληρο τον πλανήτη. Ευχάριστο
It is an honor seeing someone saying this.Especially from the other corner of the earth
Try to correct your grammar:)! It was a nice try though! Σε ευχαριστουμε για τα καλα σου λογια!
Don't listen to people correcting your grammar, it's almost perfect (only one mistake: It should be: Εσείς οι Έλληνες). You just have some spelling errors. By the way: I would give my right arm to learn Japanese. Sas agapame ki emis! Very much so!
ean niotheis ellinas eisai ellinas..!!!
Wow man you are doing great good job, keep on trying. Also thanks so much for your kind words.
Γεια σου, I'm from Finland and started studying Greek on Duolingo about 150 days ago. It's such a beautiful language, and I hope to understand what these comments say some day 😄
Hello, I've tried many languages in Duolingo and once I wanted to check how they approached the greek (as I'm Greek myself). I inform you that it's terrible.. I couldn't understand the sentences, it's obvious that native speakers haven't worked for that project. Bravo for trying but greek is a tuff language and unfortunately you can't find quality courses online easily. Hope you find out a better way. Please send me if you need any help or someone to talk with in greek for practice!
@@user-ci1kx1ck1h But is it good to learn the Greek script, for example?
I'm studying Greek too and I love it,! Cheers from Netherlands 🇳🇱
@kladkras by a guaranteed site/teacher of course! I think the Greek script has many to teach y about the history of a lot of languages (even the math language) and the wrong spelling when they pronounce Greek words, and generally you can learn things about our culture!
Congrats @Dutchman93 ! I've been 2 years ago in Holland and it was a magnificent trip. I'll definitely visit you again.
Γειά σας, είμαι από την Πορτογαλία και αγαπώ η Ελλάδα, η γλώσσα ελληνικά και η Έλληνες, Αγάπη για Ελλάδα 🇵🇹♥️🇬🇷
Και εμείς αγαπάμε Πορτογαλια!!
Ζήτω η Ελλάδα! Αγάπη από τη Βουλγαρία. 🇧🇬❤🇬🇷
Επίσης! Αγαπάμε Βουλγαρία 🇬🇷❤️🇧🇬
Ναι!❤
Επίσης! 😊 Αγαπάμε την Βουλγαρία! 🇧🇬❤
💙💙🤍🤍
Εγώ μαθαίνω Ελληνικά γιατί νομίζω ότι η Ελλάδα είναι μια πολύ όμορφη χώρα 🇬🇷❤️. Μια μέρα (όταν μιλήσω τέλια) θα ήθελα να παω εκεί. Για μένα... Η γραμματική έχει μερικά δύσκολα πράγματα αλλά δεν είναι τόσο δύσκολη. Η προφορά για μένα που είμαι από το Μεξικό και μιλάω Ισπανικά, είναι πολύ εύκολη γιατί έχουμε τους ίδιους ήχους ή τουλάχιστον είναι παρόμοιοι. Χαιρετίσματα και αγάπη από το Μεξικό 🇲🇽
@@mariangelalabraki1541 Ευχαριστώ πολύ. Εσύ και γράφεις πολύ καλά στα ισπανικά. Εμένα και μου ενθουσιάζει όταν κάποιος μαθαίνει ή θέλει να μάθει ισπανικά 🙈. Φιλιά από το Μεξικό 🇲🇽🇬🇷.
Hi Danielo You sooner you come sooner you learn it. Visit Thessaloniki Chalkidiki. Best place to learn more
Hola hermano) estoy aprendiendo español y estoy encantado de hacerlo. Estoy capaz de leer libros en español, entiendo casi todo, pero debo aprender muchas frases idiomáticas, es así en todos idiomas. Saludos y mucha suerte))
@@alecx7610 I'm greek :) I will try to talk to you english to help you. Im learning the Mexico language and I love it! :)
Που να δεις το πολυτονικό σύστημα
I am from Ukraine but since my very childhood Greece is one of my favourite countries! Especially i like Ancient Greek mythology and history after that period (including the Revolution of 1821). Greek language sounds pretty nice for me. What i can note that the word "freedom" sounds the best in Greek: "Elefteria". Best wishes for Greek people and for Greece from Ukraine! There is a history of Greek people here as well.
Σ ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΟΥΜΕ ΓΙΑ ΟΣΑ ΥΠΕΡΟΧΑ ΑΝΑΦΕΡΕΙΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΓΛΩΣΣΑ ΜΑΣ,ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΜΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟ ΜΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ''ΘΑΥΜΑ'' ΤΟΥ 1821 ΜΕ ΤΟ ΟΠΟΙΟ ΟΙ ΠΡΟΓΟΝΟΙ ΜΑΣ ΑΠΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΣΑΝ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΤΡΙΔΑ ΜΑΣ.
It's not Elefteria it's Eleftheria (Ελευθερία) the pronounce after the first 3 letters is F+TH so E-LE-FTHE-RI-A hope that helps :)
There's not just history of Greek people in Ukraine.The majority of the coastal south area has founded and inhabited by them up to the mongol invasions and then they were reestablished there by great Kat up to today.There literally hundreds of thousands of Greeks living in Ukraine today.
Love to our Ukraine brothers and sisters from Greece. Slava Ukraini !! Our Russian brothers and sisters are not the enemy, just the disgusting politicians. Putin you are a dog.
Love from Turkey, i feel like we are so close in cultural way. + Personally i like ancient greece philosopy, mythology and other stuffs. Greeks made huge contributions to humankind (creation of initial scientific thoughts, democracy etc). Hope to learn greek someday. kalispera!
Kalispera and love to Turkey!
Lol, turks are just greeks that have forgotten the language.
Ancient Greek is better than modern greek. Ancient Greeks had a completely different accent from the one we have today's Greeks. Type Podium-Arts Aristotle and watch the video (11 minutes long) to hear how ancient Greek was (a Greek speak in the video)
😂😂😂😂😂so close 😂😂😂😂😂
our cultures are not close together, we are quite diferrent in most fields. But both of us have our significant cultures. Greetings from Hellas to turkiye
Αγαπάμε τους Έλληνες γείτονές μας. Αγάπη από τη Βουλγαρία. 🇧🇬❤🇬🇷
Love ya back brother! ✌️
Thank you! I hope we stay like that! Ευχαριστούμε! Ελπίζω να μείνουμε έτσι!!!🇬🇷❤🇧🇬
Hi, I am from Greece, and I'm glad you like our language! My favorite language is English!// I LOOOOOOOOOVE ENGLISH, I wish I'm from England of from America!
💙💙🤍🤍
🇬🇷💙🇧🇬
That feeling when you're Greek and you see comments from other people showing so much love and respect for your country, when some of your co-patriots don't respect their own home.
It's crazy how anytime you find a video on Greece it's full of people showing their love. Always makes me smile lol.
@@ub3rfr3nzy94 ikr!
Αυτό συμβαίνει γιατί ότι ξέρουμε για την Ελλάδα είναι από ότι περίσσεψε από τους αρχαίους, η γλώσσα, Πολιτισμικά στοιχεία και φυσικά η αρχιτεκτονική τους, οι νέοι Έλληνες δεν έχουν κάνει και πολλά και αυτό είναι αλήθεια, οι δε κυβερνήσεις που βγάζουμε απλά ρουφάνε την εντεριωνη της σιγά σιγά και αναγκάζουν τους νέους να πλένουν κατσαρόλες σε Γερμανίες και Ουγγαρίες.
Pavlina Hey every country has given a contribution to humanity, especially Greece, let no one tell you otherwise. People do not appreciate and take their nation for granted
@@MrAadam747 Στο χέρι σου είναι να προσπαθείς μέρα με την μέρα να κάνεις την διαφορά, να ψηφίζεις σωστά (βασικό) και να συμπεριφέρεσαι σαν σωστός άνθρωπος με φιλότιμο. Και σε αυτό που είπε έχει δίκιο, πάρα πολλοί Έλληνες συμπεριφέρονται σαν Ελληνόφωνοι και μοιάζουν να μισούν την ίδια τους τη χώρα.
As a Greek-American who until the age of 13 didn't had any knowledge of the Greek language i have to say that when me and my family moved to Greece i had to take an intensive course in order to go to a Greek school. Even if i was considered as a talented boy in linguistic (cause i was learning the language very fast), i realized that when i finished the course and i was ready to participate in a class , the words and the meanings that i knew were only the 30% of what the native speakers express by saying them. Funny thing was that at the time i had a very strong accent which was showing clearly that i didn't grow up in Greece and my schoolmates were teasing me. After a couple of years when one of the lessons was the Archaic Greek i found it so boring and useless to learn. One year after i finished the high-school i was already in the University studying economics, a family friend gave me a speech about the beauty of the Greek language and i realized that i already new many words which were archaic. I found it so interesting and i decided to educate myself. During my journey to the archaic Greek i fell in love with linguistics. This helped me to be able at the age of 25 to be able to learn 3 more languages. After 12 years i moved to a German speaking country and this knowledge helped me to learn good German in 2 years without going to any school and with not so much contact with native speakers.I hope that my story can give a push to some people who really want to educate themselves , to try and learn the amazing language which is called Hellenic.
As a native Greek moved to an English speaking country I realized how the Greek language has influenced the world. Also I realized how easy it was for me to learn a third language knowing only Greek. I am coming from a Greek family from the south part of Greece. At my dads village they speak Dorian mix influence of ancient Greek, modern and Dorian. Very similar to Cyprus that I can understand super easy too. I traveled to South Italy when I was young and I could understand everything in Greci ( a Greek dialect mix with Italian words). Now I speak fluent Norwegian language ( I learned it in 2.5 years without too much effort) I understand also Swedish people too. I can read Dutch and get the meaning but I can't speak or understand them very easily. Now I am trying to learn Italian and I think I can master the language within 2 years too. The reason?? I have Greek roots and a language that made me understand the real meaning of a simple word. People these days speak a language like English but they don't really understand the real meaning of a word. In Greece every word makes sense because it has a root. As the video showed I was happy to watch it but at the same time I am sad that the Greek language is not a mandatory language in every country in the world. If people study Greek I am sure their mind will understand other things too.
As an Albanian, I have always been fascinated by Greek culture, language and basically everything else about them. Much love from your neighbor to the north
Respect
Finally we need peaceful comments, because I only see aggression among us on the internet.
As a Greek i can tell you that your respect about our country doesnt mean sh@t.Make a better country for yourselves and stop coming here.
@@nickfas1429 my respect doesn’t mean shit to you. But for me, even if it’s not mutual, it means a great deal. I’m not going to judge you, I don’t know what made you hate Albanians. But I hope that you will overcome this hate one day.
@@waffilushus please don't listen to this person. They express a small minority in our country and their hatred comes from a small minority of your country. Thank you for your comments, I really appreciate them and hope that one day we'll be all one big friendly community :)
I’m originally from Poland was married to Greek man and learned to speak Greek and love it being able to speak English and polish I have found it easy to learn greek language because I have realised how many words a Greek in the languages I have spoken already
Γειά σάς! Είμαι από την Παλαιστίνη και μαθαίνω ελληνικά στο σχολείο! Αγαπώ την Ελλάδα και τα Ελληνικά 🇬🇷❤️🇵🇸!!
Ισραήλ*
Freedom to Palestine! i was years ago in your beautiful country
@@mikek74 thank you! im glad you liked it. you're always more than welcome here ❤️
Λευτεριά στην Παλαιστίνη ! Ο Θεός & ο ήλιος να σας δίνουν δύναμη !
@@ampelokipoi13 ευχαριστώ!! ❤️❤️
Hello to all Greek and Greek speaking people Love and respect from Iran 🇮🇷❤️🇬🇷
Cheers from Greece Iran!!
thanks we love Zoroastrism and Mazdaism and we adore the sound of the persian language ''Αγαθές σκέψεις, αγαθοί λόγοι, αγαθές πράξεις'', therefore ''good thoughts, good words, good deeds"!!!
Hey Persian brother listen. when we want to say ''I SPEAK VERY GOOD THAT LANGUAGE'' we say ''I SPEAK (that language) FARSI''. that means perfect. for example ''I SPEAK GREEK FARSI'' = I SPEAK GREEK PERFECT
@Suryoyo ܩܡܫܠܐ what?
@Paranoya Hello swimmer
ΓΕΙΑ ΣΕ ΌΛΟΥΣ. Είμαι ο J.J είμαι ΑΜΕΡΙΚΑΝΟΚΟΡΕΑΤΗΣ και χαίρομαι που η αγάπη μου για την Ελλάδα με βοήθησε να μάθω πολύ καλά ελληνικά και να έρθω να ζήσω στην Ελλάδα. Πολύ κατατοπιστικό clip. J. J. P.S.HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!!!!
Και είμαστε πολύ χαρούμενοι που ένας Αμερικανοκορεατης μιλάει την όμορφη γλώσσα μας..
Πραγματικά γιατί το έκανες αυτό στον εαυτό σου?
Αφού Μήλας κορεατικά που είναι και αυτή μια δυσκολη γλώσσα τότε τα ελληνικά δε θα σου ήταν και τόσο δύσκολα
@@ekto250 είσαι γιατί τη μιλας τοτε; Ανθελληνα, διότι Έλληνας που μισει τις ριζες του δεν υπάρχει.
@@mariapkm ποιος είπε ότι μιλάω ελληνικά. Ο μόνος λόγος που ξέρω ελληνικά είναι το ότι δυστυχώς γεννήθηκα εκεί
Love the Greek language, it sounds really beautiful. Looking forward to learn it someday. Greetings from Armenia. 🇦🇲 ❤🇬🇷
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@@iumaser3219 oh thank you, I didn't about that story from Greek Mythology. I've also read that the greek philosopher Heredotos wrote that "Armenians come from Phyrigians and their language(Armenian) is similar to phyrigian too." And Phyrigians are originally from Trace region of Greece. Did acient Greeks generally thought of Armenians as hellenic/greek people ? I'm curious, cos Armenians also participated in Olympic games and in 281 the Armenian King Trdat III won the Olympic games according to Armenian historian Moves Khorenatsi.
@@user-sf4ps3si7m ❤💙🧡 🤝 💙🤍
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Wish I spoke greek... Sounds so cool. Greeting from Norway! 🇳🇴
Heeey. There's two things I really like about you Norwegians (and no, I'm not gonna go on about the same old stuff like the Vikings, the hot blondes etc.): 1) You've got - arguably - the best black metal around. 2) Your language, if I'm not mistaken, is one of only FOUR (4) modern languages in which the country is called HELLAS and not some common exonym derived from either "Greece" or "Ionia". I don't know why you people did it, but way to be cool like ourselves, the Chinese and the Vietnamese. Cheers!
Thea Flatnes try to learn some.you will be amazed
Dearg Doom Yes, we say Hellas!! :D But we call the language "gresk" haha. Don't know why, though🤔
Thea Flatnes you can change it to "Hellenic".
Basically 90% of greek is either malaka or re.
Love Greece from Brazil! How much beauty in this country! VERY... VERY... 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
Brazil is a very beautiful country too! Love from Greece brothers!
My favorite Latin America country, very beautiful 😍😍 🇬🇷🇧🇷
Hai🦋
Obrigado meu irmao
Είμαι Ελληνικό Αμερικανός από τη Καλιφόρνια. Μιλάω λίγο Ελληνικά και το βίντεο σου βοήθημα με τα Ελληνικά. Σας ευχαριστώ πάρα πάρα πολύ και καλή εβδομάδα και το Σαββατοκύριακο.
Καλή εβδομάδα και Σαββατοκύριακο. When you write καλή εβδομάδα και το Σαββατοκύριακο its like saying in greek good week in weekend 😃
Koine Greek: the Greek language that Alexander and Macedonians🇬🇷 spread. is used today in all ecclesiastical events and lytourgies in Greece as originally written. 100% comprehensible.
Just curious, what would you say the main differences are between modern Greek and Koine? Also, is Katharevousa closer to Koine than present-day written Greek?
@@DefinedFaith Indeed, Καθαρεύουσα was introduced as an effort to 'cleanse' (in Koine, Καθαρόν=Clean, Καθαρίζω=To clean) modern Greek language from errors and foreign elements that had accumulated over the long centuries of the Greeks being essentially enslaved, back to a form closer to the Koine. Koine is (almost) perfectly understood by modern native speakers of Greek.
Ancient Greek is better than modern greek. Ancient Greeks had a completely different accent from the one we have today's Greeks. Type Podium-Arts Aristotle and watch the video (11 minutes long) to hear how ancient Greek was (a Greek speak in the video)
@@nikostheofanidis9970 There is no better and worst. Archaik Greek Homeric Greek Ancient Greek Ionian GREEK Macedonian Greek Koine Greek Byzantine Greek Katharevousa Greek Nowadays Greek ...... They are all Greek. They are the branches of the same Greek language tree, as evolving through the centuries.
@@aspalathossplit3001 By better, I mean that ancient Greek sounds better than modern Greek. Modern Greek does not resemble Ancient Greek in pronunciation. Ancient Greek is more beautiful than modern greek
I am Russian and used to learn Greek. It was wonderful experience I enjoyed it very much. Although Greek is totally different from Russian it was times easier for me to learn it rather then English. English was a real pain :-) . I started speaking Greek much quicker then I started speaking English.
tina yta awww good for you
Russian is not that different from Greek What about the cyrillic alphabet;At least 20% of Russian vocabulary is Greek words the only difference is that usually the last sellable changes a little bit.
Ancient Greek is better than modern greek. Ancient Greeks had a completely different accent from the one we have today's Greeks. Type Podium-Arts Aristotle and watch the video (11 minutes long) to hear how ancient Greek was (a Greek speak in the video)
Prekrasnaya / krasivaya!! I'm not sure which one is correct for you!!
Για μένα, η ελληνική γραμματική ήταν προκλητική - στα αγγλικά, γενικά δεν έχουμε διάφορες πτώσεις λέξεων, και πέρασα πολύ καιρό για να τις συνηθίσω. Πολλοί Βρετανοί πιστεύουν ότι η ελληνική γλώσσα θα ήταν δύσκολη λόγω του αλφαβήτου, αλλά πραγματικά όταν έχεις μάθει πώς προφέρονται όλα τα γράμματα και τους συνδιασμούς γραμμάτων, και τι σημαίνει ο τόνος, θα ξέρεις ακριβώς πώς προφέρονται καινούριες λέξεις (σε αντίθεση με τα αγγλικά, ειδικά). Όντως δεν ξέρω άλλη γλώσσα που είναι τόσο εύκολη από αυτή την άποψη, και μάλλον γι' αυτό (μαζί με την αγάπη μου για την Ελλάδα, φυσικά!) η ελληνική είναι η αγαπημένη μου ξένη γλώσσα :)
Way to go for your fluency! Πράγματι πολύ καλά Ελληνικά!
Σας ευχαριστώ! :)
John Prentice Tried so hard to read this but my Greek just isn't up to scratch :(
Wow, you're more proficient in my mother tongue than I am. Kudos for that. But I think I did a decent job at learning and becoming proficient in yours, so that makes us almost even.
πραγματικα εισαι απιστευτος....με τιμα πολυ σαν ελληνιδα οτι ενας σερ σαν και εσενα λατρευει την πατριδα μου και την γλωσσα της...οπως και γω εξισου την δικη σου...σ ευχαριστω πολυ...απο καρδιας...
As a Greek Canadian, Greek was my maternal language. My father sent me to Greek school above my regular schooling. I am proud to say that I speak and write in Greek today and love the fact that I can visit my mother land and feel like I am home.
Big respect to Greek language from Iran(Persia),we fought many wars in the past but now we are ok and neutral to each other
We are not neutral. We love each other and the Hellenes and Persians are people with huge heritage and respect.
Αγάπη για την Ελλάδα από την Ισπανία 🇬🇷❤️🇪🇸
Hola, amigo/a. Soy griego y estoy aprendiendo español. ¡Viva España! 🇬🇷❤🇪🇸
@@nikvee6330 και εγώ με τα ελληνικά!! Θα ήθελα να παω σύντομα στην Ελλαδα ✨🇬🇷🇪🇸
You are from Spain and learn greek, I'm from Greece and learn Spanish!
@@marinelapanagopoulou9807 cool! 🤩 i don’t know how to describe it, but i feel like they are quite similar languages in some things. Viva Grecia! 🇪🇸🇬🇷
@@marinelapanagopoulou9807 viva Elliniká Dimocratia. Saludos desde España 🇪🇸❤️🇬🇷
Είμαι ελληνίδα και με συγκινούν πολλά από τα σχόλια! Αγαπάμε όλο τον κόσμο, κάθε γλώσσα είναι όμορφη! Σεβασμός για όλους, να είστε καλά!♥️
ΚΑΘΕ ΓΛΩΣΣΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ... ΟΜΟΡΦΗ(;)ΚΑΙ ΟΛΟΥΣ ΤΟΥΣ...ΑΓΑΠΑΜΕ(;)ΑΛΛΑ ΕΔΩ ΔΕΝ ΚΑΝΟΥΜΕ...ΠΟΛΥΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΙΚΗ... ΔΙΑΛΕΞΙ. ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΞΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΥΠΕΡΟΧΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΓΛΩΣΣΑΣ ΕΝΑΝΤΙ ΟΛΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΑΛΛΩΝ ΜΙΛΑΜΕ,ΕΑΝ ...ΚΑΤΑΛΑΒΕΣ...
Ελληνοπρεπές το σχόλιό σου. Μπράβο
I am Russian and I am studying Greek on duolingo and despite that Russian also has a lot of forms of the words depending on case, ammount, time and gender it is still quite challenging to match this all in my head.
Я тоже пытаюсь выучить русский ))
Cyril came a long time ago from Byzantine and gave you a wonderful vocabulary that have a lot in common with Greek..keep tryingand best of luck Eugene...you see i can understand your name Ευγένιος because it is quite the same in Greek.
I'm also learning on Duolingo! :)
Χαίρετε πάντες. Ἰταλικός εἰμι, τήν τε ἑλληνικὴν γλῶτταν ἐν τῇ σχολῇ μανθάνω. Πάνυ τὴν ἑλληνικὴν παιδεῖαν φιλῶ καὶ τὰς πάσας γραφάς, ὡς τὰς ἀπὸ Πλάτονος ἢ Ἀριστοτέλους ἢ τοῦ Ὁμέρου αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν πάντων ἄλλων γραφέων. Ἐνταῦθα, ἐν τῇ Ἰταλίᾳ, τὴν ἑλληνικὴν γλῶσσαν μανθάνομεν ἐν τῷ Λυκείῳ, ἀλλὰ οὐ μὲν τὴν νέαν, ἀλλὰ δὲ τὴν ἀρχαῖαν. Γνῶναι βουλοίμην εἰ οἱ ἐνταῦθα Ἕλληνες, ἑλληνιστὶ λέγοντες, τήνδε γραφὴν καταλαμβάνουσιν. Avete omnes. Italicus sum, linguamque graecam in schola disco. Graecam culturam peramo omniaque scripta, ut illa Platonis vel Aristotelis vel ipsius Homeri ac ceterorum omnium scriptorum. Hic, in Italia, linguam graecam in Lyceo discimus, sed non illam novam, illam autem veterem. Scire etiam velim Graecine qui hic sunt, Graece loquentes, hoc scriptum comprehendant. Hello evereyone! I'm from Italy and I'm learning Greek at school. I deeply love the Greek culture and all Greek writings, like Plato's, Aristoteles', or Homer's ones or all other writers' too. Here, in Italy, we study Greek at High School (specifically at Liceo), but not the modern one, but the ancient one. I'd like to know if Greeks present here, who speak Greek, understand this writing. Buondì a tutti! Sono italiano e sto studiando la lingua greca a scuola. Amo profondamente la cultura greca così come tutti i testi che da essa provengono, come quelli di Platone, d'Aristotele, o dello stesso Omero, o di tutti gli altri scrittori. Qui in Italia studiamo greco al Liceo, ma non quello moderno, bensì quello antico. Vorrei sapere se i qui presenti greci, che parlino greco, capiscano questo scritto (in greco antico).
outstanding , ancient greek / latin italian as a greek i adore Italy and all europe cultures , hope one day to visit and learn about Turkish people
Perfect ancient Greek and it would be perhaps interesting to you that this particular text you wrote can be comprehensible even to someone who has knowledge only of Modern Greek. In particular, the only word you will absolutely not hear in Modern Greek is Πάνυ. Some grammatical forms like in Γνῶναι βουλοίμην εἰ and καταλαμβάνουσιν have been dropped or modified, but the word roots themselves are the same in modern Greek (γνώση, βούλομαι, καταλαβαίνω etc). Basically you are ready for Modern Greek at this point. You would pick it up in no time :)
@@BlueLena Thank you. Being Italian, I thought that the differences between ancient and modern Greek were like the ones which are between Italian and Latin. Also in our language the roots are basically the same (obviously with many exceptions) like "italico, differenza, tra, antico, greco, essere, uno, latino, nostro, lingua, radice, fondamentale, uguale, ovvio, molto, eccezione" (which are the words I used till now in this comment) which derive from "italicus, differentia, intra, antiquus, graecus, esse, unus, latinus, noster, lingua, radex, fundamentalis, aequalis, obvius, multus, exceptio", but if I showed a latin text to Italian people (or I spoke in the latin language) they would understand very little. It occurs because of the grammar and the syntax, which are now very different than they were in Latin, and I thought it was the same way in Greek. So thank you for having explained me how it works in Greek, and I would be happy to pass from ancient to modern Greek as I finish studying it.
Εγώ πάντως μπορεί να μη μιλάω αρχαία αλλά κατάλαβα τα πάντα από όσα έγραψες 😂😂 εκτός από τη λέξη (πάνυ) και τη λέξη (τηνδε)
I understood everything except for πάνυ
love Greece from Spain ^^ mediterranean bros
Forever 🇬🇷❤🇪🇸
Hola! ❤️ Love from Hellas 🇬🇷
Holaaaaaa❤
Arab Mediterranean..
@@fsuccessfulf3664 uh?
Γεια σου, είμαι από Την Νότια Κορεα αλλά μετακόμισα στην Ελλάδα. Δυσκολεύτηκα πολύ να μάθω Ελληνικά, έχω ένα μικρό θέμα με τους τόνους αλλά ας πούμε πως κουτσά στραβά τα έμαθα. 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷
Το ονομα σου ειναι ελληνικο ομως. Το αλλαξες μηπως, με την εγκατασταση σου εδω;
Είσαι κορεάτισσα ; Εμένα μου αρέσουν τα κορεάτικα .Ελπίζω να έρθεις στην Κύπρο μια μέρα
Μπρ
Oi
Kalosorises kalu epimoni
Πραγματικά πιστεύω ότι τα ελληνικά είναι υποτιμημένα και είναι στην πραγματικότητα η πιο όμορφη γλώσσα στη γη αυτή τη στιγμή
Ω ναι είναι!!🇬🇷🏛️
Gypsy language
@@Lola_Dea Το Μουνί δε μιλιέται, το Μουνί γαμιέται... You can this translate, buddy!!!
@@Lola_DeaΔεν πας καλα...!!!
@@melenias1 άλλο ένα αλβανό που μισεί και ζηλεύει την Ελλάδα!
The Greek language is absolutely beautiful. And thanks for lending us all those beautiful words! dolphin, philosophy, idea...
love you from Greece
In 1957 a Greek politician delivered a speech in English, using only Greek words. I think some of you will find it interesting, so here it is: " Kyrie, I eulogize the archons of the Panethnic Numismatic Thesaurus and the Ecumenical Trapeza for the orthodoxy of their axioms, methods and policies, although there is an episode of cacophony of the Trapeza with Hellas. With enthusiasm we dialogue and synagonize at the synods of our didymous Organizations in which polymorphous economic ideas and dogmas are analyzed and synthesized. Our critical problems such as the numismatic plethora generate some agony and melancholy. This phenomenon is characteristic of our epoch. But, to my thesis, we have the dynamism to program therapeutic practices as a prophylaxis from chaos and catastrophe. In parallel, a panethnic unhypocritical economic synergy and harmonization in a democratic climate is basic. I apologize for my eccentric monologue. I emphasize my eucharistia to you Kyrie, to the eugenic and generous American Ethnos and to the organizers and protagonists of this Amphictyony and the gastronomic symposia.''
Ωραίος...Ποιός ήταν?
Ξενοφών Ζολώτας
Very interesting!
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What is Amphictyony? Having learned some Greek in High School, I understood it.
Greece has objectively the best culture in the world. Love everything about it, from the history, language, mythology, etc. Greetings from Florida.
There os no objective best culture. Such an American thing to say
Greek here, came to florida before covid to watch a Miami Heat game, amazing place.
We love you Greek here
Love to our brothers and sisters the USA!!
I am a native Greek speaker, a teacher that teaches Greek as a second or foreign language and I know all this but still it is mesmerising to listen to! Your videos are so well-made! As per your question, I personally can understand written ancient and koine Greek as I was taught ancient Greek in school 😊
Not only a teacher but κοπελάρα also!!
my beautiful Ἀφροδίτη🙂
Ancient Greek is better than modern greek. Ancient Greeks had a completely different accent from the one we have today's Greeks. Type Podium-Arts Aristotle and watch the video (11 minutes long) to hear how ancient Greek was (a Greek speak in the video)
"The Greek language is one of only three, among those now spoken and written in the world, that can boast a continuous written tradition stretching back for more than three thousand years. The others are Chinese and Hebrew." Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: a global history", New York: Basic books 2021, Preface, pp. 13
Amen Αμην
true
As a medical doctor I use a lot of greek rooted words in my daily work. I'm a paediatrician, from the greek words paedos meaning children and iatre meaning doctor. I'm a big fan of the greek culture.
If you wondering how those words are written in Greek here they are. Παιδίατρος (pedi- atros ), παιδί (pedi), ιατρός (iatros).
@@MartinQ-bl6co Thanks!!! I'd love to learn some greek.
@@cesarmirandaabreu6091 I would also like to learn greek but to write it with our alphabet. I do some translations like that.😊😊
@@sylviacrisp404 It's not that hard to learn the Greek alphabet. Ok, I am Greek but you gotta trust me :)
@@aprendegriegoconolga4189 Of course I trust you😂 As a matter of fact I am already getting there.😊😚
Im surprised that I didn't find Egyptians in the comments, so since no one said it yet, I will. WE LOVE OUR GREEK BROTHERS 🇪🇬 ❤ 🇬🇷
Thank you very much! Check the video of the channel "Ilovelanguages" on ancient Egyptian. I'm Greek and i found it extremely interesting. I didn't think that egyptian sounded like that.
Much love to you as well!
Greek Egyptian here much love
Is "Sonia" an Egyptian(Arab) name.... ???? 🤔🤔🤔
@@alishazeem5455 nope. Its neither an Arabic name nor my real name, I don't like to use my real name on socials :)
It is nice to see all the people from different countries trying to learn Greek and also support us.
I know that many Greeks understand the Koine Greek (is close to the modern Greek).
Είμαι Έλληνας από την Παλαιστίνη, και μαθαίνω ελληνικά για τρία χρόνια, και ακόμα μαθαίνω, δεν υπάρχει άλλη γλώσσα όπως η ελληνική, Ελληνική γλώσσα έχει γίνει μεγάλο μέρος στης καρδιάς μου. 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
Μπράβο σου, είσαι πολύ καλός!
Σαν Έλληνας χαίρομαι πάρα πολύ που το ακούω αυτό και σε ευχαριστώ θερμά που τιμάς με τα λόγια σου τα ελληνικά. Μόνο επίτρεψέ μου να σου κάνω λίγες διορθωσούλες : δεν λέμε μαθαίνω ελληνικά για τρία χρόνια γιατί αυτό θα σήμαινε ότι θα μαθαίνω ελληνικά για τα επόμενα τρία χρόνια και μέτα θα σταματήσω. Για τον λόγο αυτό λέμε : μαθαίνω ελληνικά εδώ και τρία χρόνια. Και επίσης : η ελληνική γλώσσα έχει γίνει μέρος της καρδίας μου ή η ελληνίκη γλώσσα έχει μεγάλο μέρος στην καρδία μου.
Γεια σου παιχτούρα
@@vasilisswtiriou7395 Σας ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ♥️♥️🥰
Ευχαριστούμε
Thank you so much for investing your time in the Langfocus project, I'm sure we all appreciate it a lot! Have an amazing week, you deserve it!!
Thank you! You too!
Gotislav Vasiljkovic Totally agree with you ! All his time spent on each video (100+ hours) deserve tons of views and likes !
Langfocus i wish you focused on the vocabulary more. personally I find that more interesting than grammar, unless its some spooky alien grammar like chinese tones or something like that. but for greek it would have been more interesting to see how much scientific vocabulary you can fit into normal greek. like road signs using the word tahi-, like tachicardia. the grammar seems very run of the mill at least compared to romanian and french, my native language and the lang i studied in hschool, respectively.
Well, that would be cool. Personally, I'd like a bit of an overview of phonology, to get some better insight into the sound of the language, but I like grammar and seeing similarities between Polish and Greek, and the sample sentences give you an idea of its sound (pitch accent?). Also, I've been waiting for Greek for a long time, so for me it's great.
I was actually expecting a mention about the phonology, but I'll see if I can help a bit. First, greek is a very robust language phonetically. Like Latin, what you read is what you speak. There are strict (yet easy) rules in place, so if you know the rules, there is no way to mispronounce a word that you read, as there are no exceptions, and no silent letters. In general it's fairly easy to read greek. The two tricky parts (especially for an english speaker) are the dipthongs (two letters read as one, or in a different manner than you would expect), and the accents. Accents, are small single-quote marks placed on top of vowels, and they indicate which syllable you should emphasize in a word. For instance, in the word "ταχυκαρδία" (meaning tachycardia) the accent is placed on the second to last syllable, on top of the i letter. This makes the word sound like "tachycar-Thea". If I wanted to emulate the pronounciation of the english word which puts the emphasis on the syllable containg the letter "a", I'd write it as "ταχυκάρδια". Of course, such a word would be wrong, but it works as an example to show you how a word changes depending on where the accent is placed. An accent can be placed only on the last three syllables of a word. Single syllable words do not require accents (with the exceptions of "τι" and "πως" (what and how) when they are part of a question). Accents also apply only to lowercase letters. Never on uppercase. The only exception to that is only if it's the first letter of the world and is accented, such as in the beginning of a sentence or a name). Greek have 5 vowel sounds. A, E, O, I and U A/α (alpha) sounds like A in Apple E/ε (epsilon) sounds like E in End O/ο (omicron) sounds like O in Opera I/ι (iota) sounds like E in e-mail U sounds like U in Uber or like OO in Oops In the greek alphabet there are many letters that sound the same, and they exist so they can convey proper orthographical meanings in the written language. In ancient greek, they also had slightly different sounds. As such, O/ο (omicron) sounds the same as Ω/ω (omega). Ι/ι (iota) sounds the same as H/η (eta) and Y/υ (ypsilion) There is no single letter for U in greek, but it is constructed by a combination of O and Y (as a diphtong). There are 17 consonant sounds and respective letters in the grek alphabet Β/β (beta), sounds like V, Γ/γ, (gamma) sounds as if you're trying to pronounce the letter G but instead of firmly touching the back of your tongue to your throat, you perform a light touch and let the air flow between tongue and throat. The sound of Γ also changes depending on the vowel that follows, but it's generally a matter of how deep in your pallate you touch your tongue. If it's followed by O, Ω A, or OY, it's pronounced like W in Woman. If it's followed by I, H, Y or their equivalent diphtongs it sounds like Y in Yin. And if it's followed by E or it's equivalent dipthong it sounds like Y in Yen (the japanese currency). Δ/δ (delta) sounds like TH in The, Ζ/ζ (zeta) sounds exactly like the english Z Θ/θ (theta) sounds like TH in Thought, Κ/κ (kappa) sounds like the english K, Λ/λ (lambda) sounds like the english L M/μ (mi/mu) sounds like the english M N/ν (ni) sounds like the english N Ξ/ξ (ksi) sounds like X in Axe Π/π (pi) sounds like the english P Ρ/ρ (rho) sounds like the english R Σ/σ/ς (sigma) sounds like the english S Τ/τ (tau) sounds like the english T Φ/φ (phi) sounds like the enlish F Χ/χ (chi) sounds like H in Horror Ψ/ψ (psi) sounds like PS in Apps. The dipthongs add alternate spelling of letters and missing sounds AI is read as E(psilon) (or as ai in the word fair) OI and EI, is read as I(ota) (or as ei in the word rerceive) OY is read as OO in Oops ΓΚ and ΓΓ are read as the english G in Goblet. AY and EY are read as AF/EF or AV/EV depending on the letter that follows. If a diphtong is not accented then it is read/pronounced based on the rules above. If a dipthong is accented, then the accent goes on top of the second letter of the dipthong. If however the accent is on top of the first letter of the dipthong, then the dipthong is broken apart (solved) and is read as the two separate letters that comprise it. If a dipthong is found in a word and is not accented but the word requires that it is treated as two separate letters than a diphtong, then the second letter of the diphtong gets a solvent (two dots on top of it looking exactly like the german umlaut) like in the word "γαϊδούρι" (meaning donkey). The presense of a solvent, breaks the diphtong. A solvent is also used if the dipthong is accented on the second letter, and the word requires that the dipthong is broken. In that case both an accent and a solvent are used on the second letter (such as in the word φαΐ meaning food). And unless I'm forgetting something, this pretty much covers the entire ruleset of how greek sounds and is read. Here are some greek words to try reading and practice a bit: Σκουλήκι (worm) Αγάπη (love) Καλημέρα (good morning) Μουσακάς (moussaka) Σουβλάκι (souvlaki) Γύρος (Gyro) Αγγούρι (Cucumber) Παιδί (child) Ειρήνη (peace) Παιδάκια (little children) Παϊδάκια (lamb chops) Πεινάω (I am hungry) Διψάω (I am thirsty) Προίκα (dowry) Hope these help a bit
I’m in absolute love with Greek. Singers such as Eleni Foureira and Katerina Stikoudi made me fall in love with Greek. Eleni Foureira is by far the best artist I’ve seen in a long time and she could totally make an international career. Thank You queen Eleni 💖💖💖💖💖🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷 and thank you Greece for such an amazing language.
Fascinating. Greek grammar is pretty similar to my native language German: lots of inflections enabling a very flexible word order. I wonder how today’s Germanic languages would look like without the influence of ancient Greek which was used/known by scolars and priests all across Europe (besides Latin, of course). Greece definitely was the birthplace of European civilization.
Genau. Schüler in Griechenland nehmen verpflichtend Altgriechisch Unterricht. Wenn ich erst Deutsch studieren anfing, merkte ich viele Ähnlichkeiten zum Altgriechischen. Die Deklination von Nomen/Adjektiven und besonders der Satzbau sind einige Beispiele. Das was Neugriechischem fehlt aber es gibt in Deutsch sowie in Altgriechisch ist das Gerundium. Diese Tatsache überrascht mich immer. Excuse any mistakes. Havent practiced in years.
@@georget2063 Das deutsche Gerundium dient, anders als das englische, aber nur zur Adjektivierung von Verben: Die Ente schwimmt und quakt -> Die schwimmende Ente quakt. So etwas wie das englische present participle wird im Deutschen durch ein simples Adverb ausgedrückt: Die Ente schwimmt und quakt *gerade*.
Indeed. In 8th century ac the German scholars made German language based in ancient Greek. Thus you have for example datum-dotiki. Whith dimotiki Greeks gave up dotiki.
EUROPE WAS AND STILL IS A TERRITORY IN NORTHERN GREECE, ALSO WAS THE STEP-SISTER OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Greek language is beautiful and it is the fundamental language of our european, western, white civilisation. 💙
I am studying for the highest level of Modern Greek certificate, i only have till May but i am going to pass because i am in love with this language since i was 16 when i did Ancient Greek in high school back in the 90s. I already have C1 level and i live in Athens (i am from Spain). Πολλά φιλιά και καλή σας μέρα!
Nat Jones Καλη τυχη αδερφε
Ευχαριστώ πολύ! Φοβάμαι λίγo την ορθογραφία (η, ι, υ κυρίως) αλλά διαβάζω κάθε μέρα :) Natalia.
Nat Jones Καλη τυχη με τα ελληνικα.Μην αγχωνεσαι πολυ,παρα πολλοι Ελληνες δε ξερουν την ορθογραφια της ιδιας τους της γλωσσας.Ποσο μαλλον εσυ που εισαι ξενος.Η καλη ορθογραφια θα ερθει με τον καιρο,οι Ελληνες δεν την παιρνουν τοσο στα σοβαρα...ειδικοτερα (οπως ειπα και πριν) οταν γραφεται απο αλλοδαπους.
Καλή επιτυχία σου εύχομαι!!!
Ναταλία την λένε :)
I love literally the Greek language, the Greek ancient history, the philosophy. Kisses from an italian archeologist ❤️🌿
Thank you
I just gave you the 100th like
Then you should know that something is not quite right with greek history .. more and more it looks that is mostly invention
@@antondavidoff150 Are you okay? You should visit a doctor 😂
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I'm Albanian and i do like Greece 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂♥️♥️
Welcome
That's a rare one
Thank you neighboor! Very kind of you!!
No, it is not rare at all. That is a common one. Albanians like Greece and Greeks as individuals. Many of them have a great love for the Greek music and culture and nature. What Albanians usually don't like and most of them disgust is the Greek politics and few medieval atavisms still existing in Greek society. Anyway, the topic is about the Greek language and to me it is one of the most beautiful in the world and among easiest to learn.
@@jakefutplot Bro the problem started when a part of the Albanian immigrants started doing heavy crimes when they arrived here. Unfortunately some made a bad name for you that created stereotypes
Calabria (southern Italy) is spoken Greek because of ancient greek settlements, so, there, developed another form of greek.
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Calabria southern of Italy speaking Albanian are Arberesh who came in itali from peleponezs ( More ) , ancient Greeks where Pelazgian - Iliyrian and not semito Egyptian
@sonitaademaj ????😂😂😂😂😂 very nice joke, albanian. Keep dreaming with this bullshit. You are light-years away from truth. Open some books and educate yourself.
@MusickBestTherapy yeah keep dreaming, albanian. They even speak Greek dialect if you ask them they will tell you that. There are also many documentaries with the residents there they are saying themselves that they have Greek roots. Educate yourself and stop telling bullshit you make yourself look ridiculous.
@@Lola_Dea I'm not talking about those who speak Arberesh, instead, of those who speak GREEK in Calabria
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Ευχαριστούμε πολύ φίλε, είμαι πολύ χαρούμενος που τόσοι άνθρωποι από το εξωτερίκο μαθαίνουν ελληνικά!
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Dobre gin polish brat! GR
we use some Greek loanwords in Algeria : Belaradj =a storck (πελαργός) Tadjin = a pan (τηγανον) Drahem = money (δραχμὴ)
really? I am amazed...I should expect to find french or maybe spanish words there, but greek?
Tee Rex the "δραχμη" is not all money its like saying dollars or euros the δραχμη is what Greece had before euros
Tee Rex In Hindi "kendra" which means centre comes from Greek.
+vtze 80 I think most of the greek loanwords came via ottoman turkish, like : fanus = a lamp (φανός) , or Arabic : δραχμὴ = دِرْهَمْ Dirham (Drahem in Algerian) , and some via berber : Belaredj (πελαργός) . & yes , the french influence on Algerian vocabulary is huuuuge , but you also find a lot of Spanish ,Italian ,Turkish ,Prsan ,Berber & Latin loanwords .
+Maky Oglou I know that , but in the Algerian dialect the word drahem (δραχμὴ) means money in general . I have money = ɛandi drahem . our currency is the Algerian Dinar which comes from Latin : denarius (an old Roman currency)
My professor of Ancient Literature used to say that we cannot even imagine what the Greeks can say
What does that mean my friend?
Right on the spot. Even a small difference of your voice can change the meaning of a sentence
@@SpartanLeonidas1821Suffice it to say that the Greek language has about 1,200,000 words in contrast to, for example, the English language which has about 166,000. This is how the descriptive and meaning-giving capacity of the language becomes apparent Στα ελληνικά: Αρκεί κανείς να αναφέρει ότι η ελληνική γλώσσα έχει περίπου 1.200.000 λεξίτυπους σε αντίθεση για παράδειγμα με την αγγλική γλώσσα η οποία έχει περίπου 166.000. Έτσι γίνεται φανερή η περιγραφική και νοηματοδοτική ικανότητα της γλώσσας
@@dimdra Thank you for sharing! 🙏
That is true because Greek is a very accurate and mathematically made language. You can express multiple meanings in multiple layers just by the way that you arrange the words.
So much love for the Greek language and culture! Learning to speak Greek so I can converse when I travel! Γεια σου! με λένε Persephone!
I'm Italian but I'm studying ancient Greek at school...I think is really difficult but sooo amazing.
Miss. A Ciao bella!
Me too. It is such a beautiful and complicated language that it makes you feel better than when you didn't know it.
Miss. A Ι am greek
consolationconsolazioneconsolationem. you know italian-> you know latin-> you can in a couple of weeks read and fully unterstand english. trust me!
Steve Pavlides i am level B2 in english...😂
Εμείς, ο λαός του Ιράν, σεβόμαστε τις παλιές χώρες. Δεν είμαστε ο τρόπος που σας δείχνουν οι ΗΠΑ και η Δύση στις ταινίες. Χαιρετισμούς από ένα Ιρανό Ζωροαστριανό κορίτσι στον μεγάλο ελληνικό λαό 🇮🇷❤🇬🇷
Noone believe that movies are close to reality. Neither we believe what USA and the west try to show as truth through propaganda in media just to achieve their goal for control. Greetings from Greece to Iran.
Probably Greece is the only (or one out of few) European countries that love Iran. We recognise the greatness of Persian civilization and we understand that Iran it's probably the most liberal Islamic republic! Us media try to show that Iran is like Saudi Arabia, but Greek documentaries have shown that Iran is a modern state with a highly educated population and of course Islamic commandments.
Να είσαι σίγουρη οτι οι Ελληνες γνωρίζουν πολύ καλά τον ιρανικό λαό και την μεγάλη ιστορία του.
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We love you, beautiful
🇬🇷🇬🇷🇨🇾🇨🇾🇬🇷🇬🇷Ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ σε όλους σας για τα καλά σας λόγια για την Ελλάδα μας. 🌅🌅💪🤝👍
What would the word 'Gort' mean in Greek?
@@MICHAEL_GOLDMAN it means gord
@@KP-nn5jh What is the meaning of 'gord'?
@@MICHAEL_GOLDMAN Gort?
@@costenics_sw Yes.
As a native speaker, I would say that by reading ancient greek being a modern Greek speaker you can get an idea but a little idea because syntax in ancient greek is much far complex than modern Greek. Moreover in school we are taught about syntax and word roots (that is helping to understand a Latin word for example or much more a scientific terminology because you already know the roots so you don't have to memorize all the terms) so we are not taught how to actually speak ancient greek.
As a Russian I'm very thankful to Greek missionaries who made an alphabet for Slavs... because of this I always considered Greeks being our brothers...
It was Kirillos and Methodios if my memory is correct who made the Slabic alphabet. Yes I also consider Russian or Novgord people our brothers or brothers to the Byzantium empire. Language, religion and a long term alliance made our people feel comfort to each other...
@@andreaskonstantinidis40 try not to confuse the nowadays self proclaimed "russia " ,former moskovia, with the real historical Rus. And as to Novgorod, the moskovites (their name that time) massacred all of your former allies and drowned the city in blood.
@@alexanderplassov8062 Name a civilisation that didn't commit some sort of atrocity against another :( At least with language, the essence was always the same, for communication.
@@AlexGW and continues? Keeps doing worst atrocities ever on their own soil and abroad? While lying about everything? None like this today. And so called *russsia^ is not a -civilization- it is a degradation of humanity. Others try to get better, to evolve but not this crime sindicate
@@alexanderplassov8062 Of course it does, I know it continues. But just on the bright side of things, the act of teaching and learning a language, that in itself (to me at least), is humanity at it's best. The essence of openly sharing, and acquiring knowledge of each others languages, it's always a very human, and peaceful endeavour.
I love HELLAS!! I'm from Naples, Italy... my homeland is greek inside! Hail to you, greek brothers!
Ζεις στην..Νέα Πόλη / Νεάπολη / Νάπολη / Napoli
IL PRIMO NOME DI NAPOLI ERA PARTENOPI PERCIO I NAPOLITANI DICONO SIAMO PARTENOPEI ! ΤΟ ΠΡΩΤΟ ΟΝΟΜΑ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΛΗΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΤΗΤΑ ΗΤΑΝ ΠΑΡΘΕΝΟΠΗ ΓΙΑΥΤΟ ΟΙ ΝΑΠΟΛΙΤΑΝΟΙ ΛΕΝΕ ΟΤΙ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ ΠΑΡΘΕΝΟΠΕΟΙ
@@alessio5021 yes! kzhead.info/sun/YMWcndWZooGcmJs/bejne.html
una faccia una razza !!!!
@@antonismpraikidis4483 e con gli arvaniti cosa siete una facia e un culo
Studied Ancient Greek for five years at school. Italy here
Τα αρχαία ελληνικά ζούνε μέσω της σύνθεσης στα νέα ελληνικά. Τι εννοώ; Σήμερα λέμε μπουκάλι, αλλά όταν θέλουμε να ζητήσουμε νερό στο μπουκάλι λέμε εμ-φιαλω-μένο νερό, που προέρχεται από την αρχαία λέξη φιάλη. Σήμερα λέμε μαλλιά αλλά όταν πάμε για κούρεμα λέμε πάω στο κομμω-τήριο, δηλαδή χρησιμοποιούμε την αρχαία λέξη κόμμη και ούτω καθεξής. Καπέλο αλλά και πηλήκιο, σκύλος αλλά και κυνο-φιλία, νερό αλλά και υδρα-γωγείο!
Για σας! ❤️Η ελληνική γλώσσα είναι η καλύτερη γλώσσα στον κόσμο, και είναι η πιο όμορφη γλώσσα που μαθαίνω . Αγαπώ την Ελλάδα, είναι η πιο όμορφη χώρα. Μακάρι να ειμουν από την Ελλάδα 💜Με όλη μου την αγάπη στην Ελλάδα από Κορέα 💖💖💕
내 달콤한 잘해. 그리스에 오신 것을 환영합니다. 나는 당신이 매혹 될 것이라고 확신합니다. 나는 지금 멀리 사는 그리스 여성이며 상상할 수 없을 정도로 그리워합니다. 또한 저는이 성과의 기준점 인 여러분의 고향을 방문 할 수있는 기회를 갖게 되길 바랍니다. 이것은 훌륭한 사람들 덕분입니다. 그녀는 훌륭합니다. 번역이 이해되기를 바랍니다.
@@elenikalogra888 이해합니다 그리스는 놀라운 사람들이있다. 저는 그리스를 사랑합니다.
@@user-eb8lh4nb2v 사랑하는 여러분, 당신의 따뜻한 말로 내 영혼이 달콤 해졌습니다. 항상 잘하고 항상 당신이 원하는 것을 가지고 있습니다. 감사합니다
We love you!
Γεια σου και σένα όμορφη, ελπίζω να έρθεις κάποια μέρα στην Ελλάδα να δεις από κοντά τις ομορφιές της! Ευχαριστούμε για τα καλά σου λόγια! Εύχομαι να μπορέσω και γω να έρθω στην όμορφη χώρα σου να την επισκεφτώ κάποια μέρα! Με αγάπη από την Ελλάδα !
I had five summer vacations in Greece till now. I learned some greek words and sentences and I like greek language. Greetings to all from Serbia!
love 2 serbia
Για σου
What parts you visited i hope its not the islands because they are overated How about mainland greece like thessalia pelloponese solid greece
@@tonivoul1971 In fact, my two vacations took place on Evia and Zakynthos. Rest was: Leptokaria, Paralia and Skala Fourka. Once I visited Katerini, Thesalloniki and Zakynthos City. Twice I visited Athens. My KZhead picture is taken in Athens, Syntagma square.
i can guess.. Malaka the first word you learn ^_^ .
We English mite have Conquered third of the world in the past centuries, but you Greeks are something else. You earned my respect and my dignity. Salutations.
Είμαι ελληνίδα . Καταλαβαίνω την κοινή ελληνική (αλεξανδρινά Ελληνικά) μια χαρά και τα αρχαία ελληνικά αρκετά καλά επίσης. Σε ευχαριστώ για το ωραίο βίντεο για την γλώσσα μας.
Love from México 🇬🇷❤️🇲🇽
Hola, lots of love from Greece 🇲🇽 + 🇬🇷
I'm bored 😊
@FamousGamerPlayz I Have A Greece 🇬🇷 Flag
Within the last three weeks, I had been studying the Greek alphabet and learning basic phrases, although I am far from even being elementary 😅 Γεια σας, το όνομά ναι είμαι Κεντ, και μαθαίνω να μιλάω ελληνικά, αγάπη από την Αμερική 💙🇬🇷
Same here bro.
Wow you are so good! I'm from Cyprus and congratulations
Συγχαρητήρια!! Τα πας πολύ καλά
@@Georgiacon6536 Σας ευχαριστώ πολύ 🥺🙏🏻
@@spyder7035 Good luck, and don’t give up 😎
Love Greeks from Iran(Persia).🇮🇷❤️🇬🇷
There is no other language so beautiful and glorious like Greek language!
Hi to all the Greek people from Argentina. What a wonderfull civilization, so much history thtat not only influenced all the western languages but many aspects of all of us.
I traveled in Greece for 6 weeks. The most difficut thing was reading signs or menus. Easiest-- Memorizing many helpful phrases for travellers, and finding that Greeks are very honest, polite and helpful.
Kitty Goursolle It is our honor to help the travellers, since God Zeus was the Protector of travellers in ancient Greece. It is an ancient obligation for the Greeks to open their houses to travellers, to offer food to them and a bed to sleep.. If any Greek was harming a traveller he was damned by the Gods, so everyone in ancient Greece was helping the travellers in order to be blessed by the Gods.. Also when someone is visiting Greece, we feel proud for that visit and we like to help them to discover places that only Greeks know.. I personally always help tourists in the subway to find their destination and always say to them secret places to visit that are not in the touristic maps..
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YOU LIEEEE!!!!!!!!
@@mariosathens1 εισαι λιγο θεομουρλος σαν και εμενα αν και νομιζω οτι εσυ εχεις ξεφυγει λιγο συνεχισε ετσι τρελε μου
I am from North Makedonija. I loveGreek lanuae, And Try Learnin, I reconized that Ancients Macedonians were wrote And speakin Only Greek. I hope Someday North Macedonians AndGreeks Livin toether on one state like Ancients years. I loveGreece.
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Love to our brothers and sisters in the north.
It's crazy how influential Greek is to this day. In Finnish there are hundreds of quite important words that are of Greek origin - the foundation of the Western civilization. But even though it's an Indo-European language the grammar is surpisingly familiar, quite inflected and sense making :)
I'm Hungarian and you can say I'm a filellinon, speaking Greek on my vacations when I go to the most beautiful country with the most kind people.
Thanx a lot Gina! You are always welcome in Greece. Hungary is also very beautiful, i was there some 10 years ago.
Thanks a lot. Cheers to Hungary. You have a village there named Belloyianis full of greek residents
@@FollowerOfTheGoddess I know about the village, the thing is that I live in Sweden since 1971. But I've been there in the neighborhood and know many Greeks that were born there or in Budapest.
@@ginastefan1020 Sweden! I love Germanic languages. I'm from Greece and I hope that one day I will be able to visit all the Scandinavian countries and Iceland! Its quite expensive though. Take care! Greetings and love both to Hungary and Sweden!
I am Greek and I just love Budapest ❤️ It's my favourite city and incredibly beautiful!
Γεια σας Από τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες, αγαπώ την Ελλάδα, μια τόσο μεγάλη και γεμάτη πολιτισμό θέση!
κοιταξε στην ελλαδα σασ λεμε αμερικανους
Γεια σου φίλε μου θα ήθελα πολύ να έρθω στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες αγάπη από Ελλάδα
As a Greek. I really appreciate this video and the attention it gives to our small country
The Greek language is a mathematical language and when studied it grows the neurons of the brain , It is truly remarkable!
Love Greece from Hungary. I have been there and it is really beautiful. And your people are very kind and friendly. Love you Greek brothers from Hungary! Όλοι αγαπάμε την Ελλάδα! 🇬🇷🇭🇺❤
Wow thanks a lot hungarian friend🇭🇺🇬🇷
Τhank you so much brother! We love Hungary so much!
I have visited Hungary, its an amazing country!
Fuck hungary from albania
@@johnwick3846 I visit every summer Greece. Your country is just amazing!
I’m from Iran and love Greek and it’s culture. Would love to learn Greek language one day 😍
Æ ż And Persian is an interesting language but I can't deal with the alphabet , it's very different from the Latin-Greek
@@friedrichhayek8628 Not just interesting. It's very poetic. Persian, Russian and Italian have a really nice sound.
@@sericsson1996 I would like to learn Persian. Btw i am Greek
@@friedrichhayek8628 It just needs a lot of work. If you put in the work and learn the patterns or whatnot it becomes easy. But you also need to have the passion and drive to learn new languages. Knowing 3 languages myself it has showed me it's not just about learning the language but also learning of the history behind it. At school I've learnt English and I never learned as much as I did talking and writing in English through the Internet. Same goes for any language. It's not just sitting in a room, reading a book. It's more. Talking with people who speak that language, finding the patterns behind the language... If you were a linguistic person you'd first learn the patterns and then figure out everything else... but that's just one part of the process of course :) For example thanks to anime and just hearing Japanese... I've found I really like learning languages and I wish I knew them all. Because it's not just the languages that are fascinating but the history behind them and how similar things you can find digging through history and how languages evolved. I'm no expert and these are just my thoughts I can recall right now.
Love from Greece!❤
CNN and Bill Gates said that Greek is the most mathematically constructed language with thousands of derivative words for each word, helpful for the Computer language in the future
Είμαι από την Ελλάδα και απλώς ήθελα να πω ότι είναι τέλειο που κάποιος αποφάσησε να ασχοληθεί με την γλώσσα μας! In english: I am from Greece and I just wanted to say that it is perfect that someone decided to deal with our language!
αγάπη στους Έλληνες αδελφούς μας! τόσο πλούσια ιστορία, όμορφη κουλτούρα και νόστιμο φαγητό! πολύ αγάπη από τους φίλους σας στην Υεμένη 🇾🇪❤️🇬🇷
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Hello dear! You write wonderfully! It is interesting that the only mistake in your sentences, is one that SO MANY of my greek compatriots make and I wanted to comment, haha! So, the mistake is: Γεια σου αγαπημένε/-η! Γράφεις θαυμάσια (θαύμα=wonder😉)! Είναι ενδιαφέρον που το μόνο λάθος στις προτάσεις σου, είναι ένα, που κάνουν ακόμη και οι Έλληνες συμπατριώτες μου και ήθελα να σχολιάσω, χαχα! Λοιπόν, το λάθος είναι: πολλή αγάπη, not πολύ! this is the adjective: ο πολύς (much, for masculine) η πολλή (much, for feminine) το πολύ (much, for neuter) BUT the adverb is also πολύ (exactly like the neuter form) Keep in mind that love (αγάπη) is a feminine noun in greek, so the correct form is "πολλή αγάπη". But if you want to say, for example, "very instense love", then you don't need the adjective, but the adverb (πολύ), cause now it characterizes the adjective, not the noun. Therefore you'll say "πολύ (adverb) έντονη (=instense) αγάπη". Just to help a bit more.. Adjectives characterize nouns! Adverbs characterize adjectives or verbs! Πολλά φιλιά! (Lots of kisses!)
@@st09gamer96 Για να ξέρεις είναι ωραίος
Wow you're doing great! Continue like that! Τα πας υπέροχα! Συνέχισε έτσι!
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I loooove this video very much. As a native Spanish speaker who also happens to speak Greek (still learning) it is great to see how the love for my much beloved language spreads. Greek is a beautiful language and its people is really kind.
Hola ;)
soy Griega y puedo hablar en español ^-^ yo amo mucho España ^-^ .
Un Soñador Mas Soy mexicano y puedo hablar español XD Saludos ;)
hahah saludos a Mexico desde Grecia ^-^
Nice hairstyle
Hi Paul - I grew up in Cyprus in an English family hearing Greek all around me. At nearly 67 I have decided I want to learn some basic Greek and be able to speak simply with locals I encounter on holiday. Although I know many phrases from childhood, the cases and inflections intimidate me currently. I hope I will get a basic grasp when the course starts. I'll be learning it in German, which will complicate it (that was my experience of learning Italian in German too). All the best, Rob in Switzerland
The Greek letters are so beautiful. Love from china.
Love to China!!
You mean Phoenician letters 😂
χαιρετε, μανθανω την φιλοσοφιαν και την γλοσσολοσιαν. εγω απο την Κορεαν, και δη την Ελληνικην φιλω. μεμαθηκα την αρχαιαν Ελληνικην, πεφιλεκα γαρ την της Ελληνικης ιστοριαν και φιλοσοφιαν αχρι του καιρου νυν. (Greetings everyone, I'm studying Philosophy and Linguistics. I'm from Korea(Of course south😅), and I do love Greek. I have studied ancient Greek, because I have loved Greek history and Philosophy until today(the time now).) Firstly, I apologize that I can speak only a little bit of modern Greek.(And I regret that I didn't write any accents on the text because I have no grave and circumplex in my Iphone.) I'm studying Attic Greek in Korea, and I have just started to learn modern Greek since only few weeks ago. Although I'm not a native Greek speaker, and nor ancient Greek, I could recognize some words from modern Greek. Even here, I can understand some 'short' sentences native Greek wrote. Maybe they can recognize my Greek, too. Well... unless it is not that terribly broken. It was an awesome experience. Because for me, I can't understand my language which was written in 15th C or 16th C without special training. That's why I decided to learn modern Greek. As someone said, "Greek never have been disappeared." The oldest living language of which we know the history. And forgive me if I made any mistakes on writing Attic Greek. Someday I'll study Greek more and communicate with native speakers(whom I love so much) in their own language. Ευχαριστώ, γειά σας!
박수민 amazing. If you learned ancient Greek you will learn the modern pretty easily because indeed despite the years the changes are are not that much. Greetings to South Korea from Greece.
Ευχαριστώ, I totally agree with you. It makes me so excited to learn Greek because I can feel the 3000 years of history. From Homer's Greek to Attic Greek that Plato and Aristotle used, and Koine Greek that the Bible was written by, and even Modern Greek which is still alive. I'll try hard as I can. Extolling your amazing ancestor, I always thanks to those great writers with my best manner. And most of all, Tzatziki is sooooooo delicious! That is the most critical reason that I can't stop loving Greece, haha :)
박수민 such kind words. Thank you. Have you ever visited Greece?
Nope, not yet. I had no chance to visit there. But Greece is definitely my next destination. I'll raise some money to go there :)
Χαίρε, φίλτατε!!
i am from turkey and there is soo many greek radio station and tv channels that i can listen and watch them. there was always greek language in my walkman and tv. i love you so much
hacı mert Thank you, brother. Greetings from Greece. Hope we can have peace one day.
i gather my uneducated grand grand mother and father knew greek language but i studied univercity and dont know :D thats bad for us. somethings for greek people
If you live in Western Turkey you most likely have greek great grandparents and greek background in general. Many greeks were assimilated into the turkish pop, that's why we look so much the same. I was in Izmir during last summer and I felt like I I was back in Athens lol x)
Jon Reid I'm living in izmir but my ancessors from the middle anatolia they are pure turkmen but you are right so many christian people turned islam due to ottoman's tax system and became turk. but also there is christian turks who became roman for example your old president karamanlis
+hacı mert Christian Turks? I'd say Turkish-speaking Greeks. They lost their Greek language but kept the Christian faith.
For sure we can read clearly the signs on Macedonian King Filippos grave in comparison with our Slav friends that wants to call themselves Macedonians 😅🇬🇷
The legacy of the Greeks literally brings tears to my eyes.
Why? What's so special about it?
The current status of it brings tears to mine.
@@user-fl7yh5fw5b Καλά τα λές, αλλά μου πήρες τον τίτλο... :(
As a Russian I'd say that in Orthodox church we have a lot of Greek words, so if we go to the church and have liturgical practice we could get a little bit of Greek, especially church thematics
привет из Греции )
I love Greece and all Greeks! I started to study a few days ago and even if it is hard, I heard that they still can understand so now I just need to make it more accurate every day!
Syntax of modern greek is really similar Turkish syntax.I 'm confused.
@@musfikinsan3423 such a bullshit 😂
Ancient Greek is better than modern greek. Ancient Greeks had a completely different accent from the one we have today's Greeks. Type Podium-Arts Aristotle and watch the video (11 minutes long) to hear how ancient Greek was (a Greek speak in the video)
Greek is a really Beautiful language