Comments on: How hard is Greek to learn? http://lessonsgreek.com/how-hard-is-greek-to-learn.html The Greek language online. Sun, 01 Aug 2010 03:08:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: georgiana http://lessonsgreek.com/how-hard-is-greek-to-learn.html/comment-page-1#comment-909 georgiana Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:09:55 +0000 http://lessonsgreek.com/how-hard-is-greek-to-learn.html#comment-909 i think its great that you have an interest in learning greek.. its a beautiful language! i must admit, it is quite difficult.. but knowing both greek and english has helped me with learning spanish (studying for 5 years now). to give you a comparison, i would say it is harder than spanish because spanish is a very phonetic language, while greek isnt as much.. spanish was also easier for me to pick up because i was already familiar with the idea of verb tenses, etc.. and it uses mostly the same letters as the english language.. and greek obviously does not. i cant really compare it to any other languages because these are the only ones i am familiar with. and i agree that kypros.org offers an excellent (and free!) learning tool.. my cousin showed it to me and has been using it for about a year now. good luck with everything (: i think its great that you have an interest in learning greek.. its a beautiful language! i must admit, it is quite difficult.. but knowing both greek and english has helped me with learning spanish (studying for 5 years now). to give you a comparison, i would say it is harder than spanish because spanish is a very phonetic language, while greek isnt as much.. spanish was also easier for me to pick up because i was already familiar with the idea of verb tenses, etc.. and it uses mostly the same letters as the english language.. and greek obviously does not. i cant really compare it to any other languages because these are the only ones i am familiar with.

and i agree that kypros.org offers an excellent (and free!) learning tool.. my cousin showed it to me and has been using it for about a year now.

good luck with everything (:

]]> By: Goddess of Grammar http://lessonsgreek.com/how-hard-is-greek-to-learn.html/comment-page-1#comment-910 Goddess of Grammar Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:09:55 +0000 http://lessonsgreek.com/how-hard-is-greek-to-learn.html#comment-910 My babysitter who has learned pretty good Spanish, French and German says it's harder than any of them. I would guess easier than Japanese though, since it is more closely related to English and if you have a good vocabluary in English a lot of the words will be recognizable. My babysitter who has learned pretty good Spanish, French and German says it’s harder than any of them.

I would guess easier than Japanese though, since it is more closely related to English and if you have a good vocabluary in English a lot of the words will be recognizable.

]]> By: Jules486 http://lessonsgreek.com/how-hard-is-greek-to-learn.html/comment-page-1#comment-911 Jules486 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:09:55 +0000 http://lessonsgreek.com/how-hard-is-greek-to-learn.html#comment-911 I began to learn it a few years ago online, and I thought it was just the same as languages that use our same alphabet...even though you are learning a different alphabet. It's almost easier in a way, because it's a whole new way of thinking, therefore you don't confuse yourself with english letters while trying to learn greek. www.kypros.org is the site I used....it's great because there are audio lessons, so you're sure you are saying things correctly....but there are also written lessons to go with the audio, so you have the full package. In fact, thank you for posting this question....I think I am going to resume my Greek lessons! I began to learn it a few years ago online, and I thought it was just the same as languages that use our same alphabet…even though you are learning a different alphabet. It’s almost easier in a way, because it’s a whole new way of thinking, therefore you don’t confuse yourself with english letters while trying to learn greek.

http://www.kypros.org is the site I used….it’s great because there are audio lessons, so you’re sure you are saying things correctly….but there are also written lessons to go with the audio, so you have the full package.

In fact, thank you for posting this question….I think I am going to resume my Greek lessons!

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