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Learn to Read Greek in 5 Days
Learning to read a language with a foreign alphabet can be an intimidating challenge. Even before you can start to study the vocabulary and grammar, you must first decipher this strange new script. But learning a new alphabet does not have to be so difficult. Other language courses start by showing a table of the alphabet and then immediately proceed to dialogues and grammatical descriptions. This is not the ideal way to teach a foreign alphabet, and this approach causes many students to get frustrated and give up before they start. Instead of that approach, Learn to Read Greek in 5 Days teaches each letter of the Greek alphabet in a systematic way while providing enough practice along the way to ensure the student learns the entire alphabet. With this system you will be able to read the Greek alphabet in only 5 days or less! In addition to the alphabet, this course teaches more than 150 real Greek words that were carefully selected to be of maximum benefit to beginning language students. These are the words that you need right away. Download a copy of Learn to Read Greek in 5 Days today and start to enjoy the language and culture of Greece in a way that only reading the language makes possible.
49 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 5, 2015
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July 29, 2022
These books are really useful if you’re traveling to a country where the language uses a different alphabet. You can go through it in about an hour on the flight, and that’s enough to start sounding out words. It doesn’t teach you what any words mean, but, often, it’s still sufficient to read a street sign or something on a restaurant menu.
December 31, 2024
Waste of money
I learned Greek as a child. This book is bare bones & doesn’t even have enough words to get by in Greece as a basic travel/tourist glossary. Some of the pronunciations are wrong, there’s no way to learn in 5 days (as the title says), and there isn’t even a discussion of gender, which changes both spelling & pronunciation. At best, someone like me who was fluent & is relearning Greek MIGHT get a minor assist on pronunciation. There’s no real rhyme of reason as to why the words chosen for practice are selected—some are proper names (typically either last names or only male names), & the rest aren’t in any rallying useful order. I wish I’d saved my money & bought a book that was actually useful to refresh my memory or for anyone trying to actually learn Greek, even if they just wanted to speak &/or read passably as a tourist. This isn’t the book for that, & I’m not sure what it’s really helpful for if the reader truly wants to learn Greek, as a beginner or otherwise. The author says it only takes 5 days but doesn’t discuss how much of the book should be read per day, at what rate, etc., so it’s an arbitrary & misleading title, in my opinion. Very frustrating to spend so much time & waste money a book with little utility, relevance, or applicability to those who want to learn how to read Greek, much less speak it.
I learned Greek as a child. This book is bare bones & doesn’t even have enough words to get by in Greece as a basic travel/tourist glossary. Some of the pronunciations are wrong, there’s no way to learn in 5 days (as the title says), and there isn’t even a discussion of gender, which changes both spelling & pronunciation. At best, someone like me who was fluent & is relearning Greek MIGHT get a minor assist on pronunciation. There’s no real rhyme of reason as to why the words chosen for practice are selected—some are proper names (typically either last names or only male names), & the rest aren’t in any rallying useful order. I wish I’d saved my money & bought a book that was actually useful to refresh my memory or for anyone trying to actually learn Greek, even if they just wanted to speak &/or read passably as a tourist. This isn’t the book for that, & I’m not sure what it’s really helpful for if the reader truly wants to learn Greek, as a beginner or otherwise. The author says it only takes 5 days but doesn’t discuss how much of the book should be read per day, at what rate, etc., so it’s an arbitrary & misleading title, in my opinion. Very frustrating to spend so much time & waste money a book with little utility, relevance, or applicability to those who want to learn how to read Greek, much less speak it.
September 1, 2018
Great intro to pronunciation!
For people like me with little or no knowledge of Greek pronunciation, this little gem of a Kindle book is a great introduction. The Romanized pronunciation guides and the very short descriptions of Greek letters and digraphs are very intuitive for a native speaker of English.
For people like me with little or no knowledge of Greek pronunciation, this little gem of a Kindle book is a great introduction. The Romanized pronunciation guides and the very short descriptions of Greek letters and digraphs are very intuitive for a native speaker of English.
June 12, 2021
This is actually a great little book. Duolingo’s robot voices can be confusing for pronunciation and this little book is great at filling in the gap. Also explains some instances where words *used* to be pronounced a certain way in Ancient Greek but are no long pronounced in this (sometimes more familiar to history buffs) way. Now to pronounce Ionian properly.
July 21, 2021
Wonderful reinforcement to those of us who need to brush up on reading Greek! As a Greek American who hadn’t been to Greek school since a child, Learn to Read Greek gave me the tools to remembering the sounds of those pesky vowels.
Bravo Papadakis!
Poppe
Bravo Papadakis!
Poppe
April 7, 2022
learning Greek
Put this on your phone, instead of reading all the social media or terrible news from round the world…learn some Greek! This makes it easy, fun and enlightening! Poli Kala!
Put this on your phone, instead of reading all the social media or terrible news from round the world…learn some Greek! This makes it easy, fun and enlightening! Poli Kala!
December 25, 2017
Good start
This book provides a good start to learn the basics of Greek - useful before a trip to Greece or before deciding to learn Greek in earnest.
This book provides a good start to learn the basics of Greek - useful before a trip to Greece or before deciding to learn Greek in earnest.
May 17, 2020
Summary.
Well explained and easy to follow. I will be happy to recommend this book to anyone who is learning Greek.
Well explained and easy to follow. I will be happy to recommend this book to anyone who is learning Greek.
September 9, 2024
Very useful!
This was very fun to use and in less than 3 days I can memorize the alphabet and I can pronounce many greek words.
Short book but so valuable for me.
This was very fun to use and in less than 3 days I can memorize the alphabet and I can pronounce many greek words.
Short book but so valuable for me.
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