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Christina Takouda - Is it “all Greek” to you?

1,734 views · Published 2 October 2018 · 55:47 · Indexed 4 October 2026

Channel: Polyglot Conference · 2018 · Education

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This interactive presentation addresses the challenge of delivering the first lesson of Modern Greek to people who are not familiar with the Greek alphabet and who do not have previous knowledge of ancient Greek. However, what they do have in common is a respected amount of Greek-originated words, part of our so called “common cultural knowledge”. These words belong to well-known academic domains such as mathematics, medicine, political sciences etc., but also, quite unexpectedly, to our everyday life as world citizens and thanks to marketing, as consumers. 

The term “international Greek” may sound as a joke in today’s world, where Greek is spoken by a tiny part of the global population, but it can be a useful tool for polyglots or anyone who wishes to learn Modern Greek. It overcomes obstacles of meaning, it helps focus on sound and form and it encourages learners to guess, recognize, speak and write their first words in the target language.

So, are you ready to participate in a guessing game –our first lesson to foreign students in Aristotle University’s “School of Modern Greek Language”? Are you ready to admit that the Greek you know is more than you imagine and far from just old school knowledge? Let’s play and see…

https://smg.web.auth.gr/may2019b/en/

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