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Basic Greek Words, Phrases, and Slang to Learn Before You Go to Greece

With a little practice, the language won't be "all Greek" during your next visit. So, you’re finally going to go on that long ...
The New Yorker

An Instant Classic About Learning Ancient Greek

When Andrea Marcolongo’s book “La Lingua Geniale,” subtitled “9 ragioni per amare il greco” (“Nine Reasons to Love Greek”), came out in 2016, I bought it, in Italian, and took it with me to Greece. I ...
Greek Reporter

Tantalize: How a Greek Myth of Eternal Punishment Became an English Word

The English word "tantalize" comes from the iconic Greek myth of Tantalus, an ancient Greek king who faced a brutal ...
Indiatimes

Greek words for love to add to the vocabulary

When we hear the word 'love', we think hearts, roses and romance. Modern society puts a lot of emphasis on that type of love, in particular, automatically discrediting and dispriorotising other kinds ...

Hindi, Greek and English all came from a now-extinct tongue

Linguists have developed methods for reconstructing the ancestral language, and refer to it using the label Proto-Indo-European or PIE ...
Travel + Leisure

Basic Greek Words, Phrases, and Slang to Learn Before You Go to Greece

With a little practice, the language won't be "all Greek" during your next visit. Helen Iatrou is a travel journalist and guidebook author from Australia who has lived in Greece for almost three ...