Learn A Foreign Language By Yourself
Greek and Italian are two languages spoken in Southern Europe in Mediterranean countries with ancient histories and world-famous cultures. Greece and Italy have a lot in common. They’re the two countries that laid the foundation for what we consider western civilization today and they have a historical bond dating back to antiquity. They’re the birthplaces … Read more
Greek is spoken by close to 13,5 million people mostly in Greece and Cypress. Like English, it’s an Indo-European language, but it doesn’t belong to one of the known branches like Germanic, Slavic, or Romance. Greek is alone in the “Hellenic” branch. This means that Greek is only faintly related to any other language, and … Read more
Greek and Latin are two of the most important languages in the history of ancient Europe and even some parts of Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa (to a somewhat lesser extent). Most people know that Greek and Latin have influenced most European languages English included – but some get confused about the relationship … Read more
The Greek language is an extremely important language in terms of world history, culture and philosophy. Most western languages today have Greek loan-words, especially for scientific terms, which attests to the significance of Greece and its culture and language throughout the ages. Greek is not, however, an international language like English, French, Arabic or other … Read more
The Greek language is the native tongue of over 13 million people in Greece (and Cyprus and Albania). It’s a language of the Hellenic language family, which is an independent branch of the Indo-European language family. This means that despite Greece’s and the Greek language’s importance in world history, the language isn’t closely related to … Read more
Recently, I’ve seen this question posed on the internet. Is Greek a dead language? It’s the kind of question that’s quite easy to answer on the surface, but a little harder if you want to go in-depth. Greek is not a dead language. But will it ever become endangered? And what about Ancient or Classical … Read more
Some 13,5 million people in the world speak Greek as their native language. Most of them are Greeks, but the language is spoken in Cyprus and Albania as well as many countries around the world where Greek expatriates live, like Turkey, Hungary, Italy and a lot of other places. Even though Greek is a relatively … Read more
