Starting with a song from the guy on the couch today’s lesson concerns Christmas. Children sing the Carols, families come together and Santa Claus’ visit is about time. We wish you Merry Christmas then and Happy Holidays!
On November 17 of 1973 students and citizens from the resistance movements against the military junta took over the University of Technology in Athens. The students set up a pirate radio screaming for “Bread, Education, Freedom”.
Tanks had their way to silence them..
I am back from my Caribbean where I conducted a research for my thesis. Let’s get back to work with nostalgia and letters. Today’s main theme though are the directions and origins of actions and movement. I go to or I come from somewhere, I say something to or I am told something by…
Today’s subject is a quite loved one. Vacations! Where will you take vacations this year? Or have you already taken them? I don’t know about you, but I am in terrible need of vacations. I am going in Greece in thursday! So, take care…
Weather! A few degrees more, always sunny, beaches are one fire, nightclubs are full of people. But in the country we live, it’s raining and it’s cloudy. Let’s explore something the Greeks call kairos.
My friends are calling me from Greece to tell me how nice the beach and the sea was!
Therefore this podcast is for the sea. Greek history is closely related to the sea and
Greeks thrived because of it. Thalassa…
“Thalatta! Thalatta!” Anabasis of Cyrus
Hello again, I humbly apologize but I had to enter the hospital for some days.
Nothing to be preoccupied about, but it took me time to recover. Here we go for Molly,
the Greek alphabet…, I hope I was not late Molly!
Today’s session is dedicated to Claijon and Paloma! A Brazilian couple coming to marry in Greece! After giving you some wedding-words, I go on saying about wedding customs and ancient Athenian traditional wedding!Let’s start…
Today is the Good Sabbath. In this occassion we explain the customs of the Greek Easter, Paskha! We also learn the days and listen to Easter hymns from the Greek Church in ancient hellenistic language. Stay tuned for the wedding customs are coming up next.. and later on the alphabet.
Hello to all of you! Since the universities in Greece are closed several weeks now but mine is not, this session will be about education. I have to apologize once again for being late. I hope you enjoy the course. Any questions you have, just ask me.
Hello everybody! This is (another) really special session! People from all over the world joined us today thanks to the Greek dinner I prepared for them and they tried their Greek accent. Thus we have no ancient Greek lesson today. They are yours!
This is the special anniversary (epetios) of our podcast! We got 10! I thank you all for your nice comments. I would like you to know that they give me the desire to go on. Without so many listeners that give me power to continue, I would have no good reason to make these [...]
Food! Nutrition, alimentation or any other word cannot describe the smell of a roasted chicken in the oven with a lot of potatoes. In Greece we love so much eating out in tavernas, singing, drinking, dancing and enjoying our company.
Today is a holiday in Greece. It is the beginning of the fast. Now it is fourty days to the Easter. We go out, we take over the hills, we eat lagana, tarama and olives and fly the kite. The carnival is over. Short periods. I am in holiday as well, that’s why.
In this lesson we talk about LOVE! Love is maybe the most significant aspect of the greek life. The vast majority of the greek songs talk about love, let’s say about 99% of them. This is no exaggeration. Love poems, love songs, love tv series, love movies, love, love, love… Or, in Greek… Agapi!
This time we proceed with the verb I have “eho”, … what? I forgot to tell you about yes or no! Is anybody listening? Why don’t you ask it from me? Yes, no Yes and No, Yes or no? But still I have is the biggest thing in here.
Hello everybody! Be happy! In this lesson we will talk about the joy and happiness! It?s the fifth lesson online; we thank you so much for your comments and e-mails.
In the fourth pod-lesson of modern and ancient greek we learn the (rest of the) numbers, 13 to 100. Then we cope with the verb be in present and we give the vocabulary for you to make simple but complete sentences.
In the third lesson we cope with numbers 1-12 and the question “how old are you?”.
The greek counting is similar to the latin or saxonic one. It wont be very difficult for you…
In our first course we learn how to say hello, how are you, goodmorning etc in greek, the words kala (also kali and kalos) and ego are defined and then we have a brief history of the Greek language.
