Foreign Languages discussion

I'll add a new c9mment later...

cool.my portuguese teacher also knows greek.

η Ματερα μου Δεν βρέθηκαν λέξεις υ κουσινα

Μy mom is always in the kitchen.

kalimera

και εσιες

to you too

literally, 'and you'

but for me it's καλισπερα

How do you pronounce these?

oh sorry.

for Δεν βρέθηκαν λέξεις υ κουσινα it's pronounced: Dthen Brethikan lezeis e kouseena

And for καλισπερα: Kaleespara

Thank you! How do you say "Hello"?

yasou

that's friendly, and formal is yasas

Thank you so much! What are the characters for that? And how do you say "thank you"?

Υασου
and
Υασας

and thank you: εφγαριστω pronounced efharisto, or as most americans say it: efgadisto. The 'h' sound like inbetween a y, g, and h, so I can't really explain it online

εφγαριστω! :D

I'll see if I can find a link to a sound clip. :D

ok :)

god thats complicated

hahaha

Can't be any more complicated than trying to make ح sound different from خ and ق sound different from ك in Arabic. Oh, and trying to learn how to pronounce غ and ع. That sounds easy compared to those! Then again, I can't access that link...

I started learning the Greek alphabet not too long ago, but I only remember a few letters when I see them. I can write alpha, gamma, pi and omega from memory, though.

Cool! I actually found the alphabet really easy to learn. I learned it in two weeks. There's just a couple different letters than the Roman alphabet but the rest of them you just match.

It's probably just because I haven't focused much on it. I'm much more focused on a few other languages. I did write the letters down somewhere, though...

Yep. :) If you want to remember it you have to be really intent on learning it.

"η Ματερα μου Δεν βρέθηκαν λέξεις υ κουσινα", this means nothing. "My mom is always in the kitchen" is "Η μητέρα μου είναι πάντα στην κουζίνα" (i mitera mou ine panta stin kouzina).

In Greek after "καλημέρα" (good morning), "καλησπέρα" (goodevening) and "καληνύχτα" (goodnight) we reply "επίσης" (episis).

Informal hello is yasou (γειά σου) and formalis giasas (γειά σας).

Thank you is "ευχαριστώ".