Why have I heard people say “Learning Russian will help you learn Greek”?
Saturday, November 14th, 2009 at
1:59 am
As far as I know, there is almost know connection between the two. I mean, there are probably some words of Greek origin in Russian and vice versa, but besides that, I don't think they're related.
Am I wrong?
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There is no point to learning Russian for the purpose of learning Greek of course, but if you do learn Russian (and you don’t sound like you have), then yes, Greek will be slightly easier afterwards.
There are many grammatical features found in Russian, which are not found in English, but which are also present in Greek, such as gender, declension, subject dropping, etc. They would seem familiar to you if you had already learned Russian, or any other language with such features (Icelandic, German, Czech, Polish, etc.) Some letters of the Russian alphabet do resemble Greek letters (and were indeed influenced by them) but I’d be surprised if that saved you more than a half-hour of work.
They’re no more closely related to each other than either one is to English, and I doubt there are many words of each other’s origin in either that aren’t also in English. I believe a few of the letters are the same.
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There not it’s a retarded saying.
well the only similarity is some of the alphabet because greek is cyrillic aswell as most easterneuropean languages. Escpecially russian!