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My Favourite Letter in the Greek Alphabet

October 30, 2021October 23, 2021 Medic 0 Comments greek

Greek is a cool language. It’s one of the oldest languages out there and it dips its toes in so many other languages. Even with modern English, we still use bits of Greek, squished and squashed into Latin before moving into our home language. When ancient languages mix with English, weird things can happen. Before we can start though, we kinda need to talk about the Greek alphabet. It’s not as hard as it looks. The Greek alphabet at first glance genuinely looks a bit scary. We have a few letters that sound and look the same. But we also… [Continue Reading]

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The Pros and Cons of Learning and Knowing Greek

January 19, 2020January 15, 2020 Medic 0 Comments greek, language

Living and growing up on an island that everyone thinks is a Greek island but is actually a nation of its own, I found myself learning Greek and had pretty much no choice in the matter. In fact, I went straight into the Cyprus school system knowing like 3 words of Greek and barely capable of stringing a basic sentence together. I went into secondary school knowing basic words and sentences, mostly because the tiny little village school that had classes consisting of 4-10 students didn’t really have the facilities to help an older child learn a whole new language… [Continue Reading]