How hard is it to learn Greek?

2 Comments

1. Rahel says:

   October 18, 2009 at 1:17 am

   Well I think those are all almost equally hard to learn..

   Greek can be quite hard to learn, it is said that it takes about three-four years to fully know it but that can also be said about many languages, actually learning to speak it to an extend of a casual conversation level is not to hard, the thing about it what makes it hard is learning to write it, and the grammar of it such as the past, present, plural, plural past etc tenses of it, though it’s not impossible, I say if you want to learn Greek go for it, it’s a wonderful language so it’s definitely worth it

   Greek would also be the only one which you would need to learn a new Alphabet as both Turkish and German use the Latin one so maybe that would make them easier

   Generally it would be the easiest for an English speaker to learn German as it has many similar or even the same words and a easy pronunciation , even though the grammar and the structure of it isit can be quite difficult too

   Though the good news due to this is that if you know German it’s easier to learn Greek and vise versa!
   I don’t know enough about Turkish to judge how hard it is but I think it is the one that won’t be similar to anything you know so it will seem completely new in every way and strange so maybe this makes it really difficult, but I don’t know for sure…

   Maybe check them all out and see which one appears to you the easiest by learning a few words of each

   See some Free learning websites:

   Greek:

   http://www.101languages.net/greek/
   http://www.explorecrete.com/various/greek-language.htm
   http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html
   http://www.language-learning-advisor.com/learn-greek.html

   Turkish:

   http://www.turkishlanguage.co.uk
   http://www.practicalturkish.com
   http://www.linguata.com/linguata/Learn_Turkish.html

   German:

   http://www.deutsch-lernen.com
   http://learngerman.elanguageschool.net
   http://www.germanfortravellers.com
   http://www.babelnation.com/german
2. Sarah dinho says:

   October 18, 2009 at 1:17 am

   I believe it is easier to learn German because it uses the same letters as English and they both have the same roots (Latin) but Greek and Turkish use different letters and I heard they are really HARD to learn.

   GOOD LUCK