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69 of 70 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Way To Learn Conversational Greek Quickly,
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This review is from: Conversational Modern Greek in 20 Lessons (Paperback)
The 20 lessons consist of dialogues that incorporate key vocabulary terms and increasingly advanced grammatical structures. The lessons very capably work in cultural points that would enable an American, or any other foreign tourist for that matter, to seem much less ignorant to the natives. Most of the dialogues focus on everyday aspects of Greek life, including Transportation, Cuisine, Sightseeing, etc.). While the first 16 lessons are translated back into English (with phonetic translations to assist the student's pronunciation skills), the last 4 lessons are longer and more complex passages that are only printed in Greek so that the student can attempt on his/her own to translate and comprehend what he/she has read. Special features of this book include guides to Greek Pronunciation and basic Greek sentence structure, a 60+ page English-Greek/Greek-English Dictionary, an Irregular Verb List with grammatical conjugations, and a 30+ page Greek Grammar guide. I would recommend this book to anyone who needs to learn how to speak passable Greek, and only has about 2 or 3 weeks with which to do it. The edition of the book I have has a special offer for a FREE audio cassette. The book and the cassette together are an excellent way to quickly enable you to speak, read, write and understand Greek, at a reasonable level of skill.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not really what I expected.,
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This review is from: Conversational Modern Greek in 20 Lessons (Paperback)
Since I learned italian with another book from the same collection, I expected the same to happen with this book. Yet I found this one a lot less helpful. It contains too much information in one page and what's more, it is not really organized in a progressive way so you need a lot of time to pass from unit to the next one while you can grasp everything. When I switched from this book to the "Conversational Greek in 7 days" by Hara Garoufalia, I found a lot of differences in the vocabulary and the structures I had learned from the Cortina's book. So, I had to refer to other books and dictionaries to see which one was right, and I found out what the other readers say: that the first one I was using was outdated and things are not said like that anymore. Of course, some of the things I learned with this book were useful, yet I had to change some of them.
If you are looking for something easy to use, yet really helpful and reliable I strongly recommend you to buy Hara Garoufalia's book instead of this one!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Okay if you already know basic Greek,
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This review is from: Conversational Modern Greek in 20 Lessons (Paperback)
This was the first book I bought to help me learn Greek. I was very frustrated with it from the start, and bought other books to use instead. My husband speaks Greek fluently, so between him and the other books I bought I started to get a good understanding for the basics. I decided to give this book another try, and found it easier to use the second time around, but only because I was already able to speak and read a little Greek. The main problem with the book is that it uses vocabulary from the 1950, and since in the late 70's early '80's the Greek goverment decided to stop using all but one accent the words you learn from this book and the words you would actually see in Greece do not look the same. It is also entirely too formal. I would tell my husband a new sentence I learned from the book, and he would always say that, while technically correct, no one would actually speak that way. I noticed this problem alot while in Greece this year. I could not understand questions that I had learned because people don't say them the same way over there as it is printed in the book.
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