Greek

We recommend Talk Now! for any language beginner who wants an entertaining self-study course to learn basic phrases, colors, numbers, food, shopping, time, countries, etc. Talk Now! is designed for people who want to learn a language quickly. It's fun, fast, and makes learning easy. If you don't have time to become fluent, but need the basics in a hurry, then Talk Now! is for you. Designed by language experts, Talk Now! includes great features like speak and repeat, interactive games, and digital recordings with both sexes of native speakers. And Talk Now! runs on both Macintosh and Windows computers. This is a fun way of instruction to learn and speak the Greek language. $_$_START_LIST ? Ideal for beginners and travelers ? Topics include: first words, phrases, food, shopping, numbers, time and more ? Interactive and fun ? Immediate responses to every choice you make ? Compare your pronunciation to that of native speakers, using the record button ? Test your knowledge with easy and hard quizzes, plus play a challenging memory game! ? Monitor your progress--keep a check on your total score, and print your own awards. ? On-screen help is available at all times in over ? Print your own picture dictionary for handy reference $_$_END_LIST

Audio CD Pack and Book. McGraw-Hill Books. 320 pages. Size 5"x7?". Includes two 60-minute audio CD discs. This complete course is based on the very latest learning methods and is designed to be both enjoyable and user-friendly. Prepared by experts in the language, this course begins with the basics and gradually elevates the student to a level of smooth and confident communication. Includes up-to-date interactive dialogues; graded units of cultural notes, grammar, and exercises; practical vocabulary; step-by-step guides to pronunciation; irregular verb tables; and plenty of practice exercises. This is another good beginner language course and includes all the fundamentals of the language. This is a great way to learn and speak the Greek language.

Vocabulary Builder is designed to meet the requirements of children aged 5-12 years old (and it's also great fun for adults!). It combines pictures, text and sound to make an interactive vocabulary building system which parents and teachers can use to help on basic language teaching. Children can use this disc to learn words, play vocabulary games and record their own words and sentences. Although aimed at children, Vocabulary Builder has also proved popular with adults trying to score their own gold award! The demand for further languages based on this highly successful title was something that could not be ignored and additional help by an an animated tiger who now speaks over 40 languages has proved even more popular. The beautiful illustrations will improve your whole family's language skills with words and phrases such as "the gorilla is in the car", "the duck is under the desk" and "the frog is on the lily pad". Play interactive games like Find The Card, Match The Pairs, and Beat The Clock; learn vocabulary with an interactive film strip in such categories as Common Vocabulary (A, B and C), Colors, Plurals, Professions, Actions, Positions, and Places; or record your voice and match it against the native speakers! All the while your child's progress can be tracked, and a printable version of it can be shared with teachers and parents. And if help is needed, just click on the talking tiger and he'll explain how everything works, all in the native language of the user! This product is fun and innovative, and will keep both the younger and older learner's attention for hours. Customer's review: This is a very simple and easy to use Greek learning software with a lot of graphics and sounds. I would recommend it for beginner students of Greek. It would give you a basic vocabulary in no time.

Talk More! is the latest series in the Talk Now! range for beginners to intermediates. It is the next step up from our best-selling Talk Now! range. Increase your basic knowledge and prepare yourself for World Talk, our intermediate level. With Talk More! you can learn a new language the EuroTal using broadcast quality video and the latest interactive techniques. Ideal for travellers, holiday makers, business people, students and families.

This is a continuation course of the Talk Now! course shown above. World Talk is the perfect follow-up to Talk Now! As well as having new activities, there is also dictation, worksheets and a brand new recording section. Topics covered include: the calendar, sentence building, asking directions, the weather and numbers. The interactive TV Quiz is a definite hit, where the resident champion may turn out to be more intelligent than he looks. You can also compete in a one-to-one match with a friend!

Hippocrene Books. 404 pages. Includes two audio CD discs. This introduction to Modern Greek is designed for both classroom use and self-study. The 12 lessons combine dialogues with easy-to-follow grammatical explanations, and include vocabulary, cultural information, and exercises that reinforce the material covered. Each lesson builds upon the previous one, allowing the student to gain confidence and mastery over the language, The audio CDs complement the dialogue and vocabulary sections of the book, helping the student to understand the language as spoken.

Includes 13 audio CD discs ( = 11? hours), and a 327-page textbook. This basic course introduces the modern spoken language to those who wish to acquire a working command of contemporary Greek. Outside of Greece, the language is spoken in Cyprus and parts of Albania, former Serbia, Bulgaria, and Turkey, as well as in the Greek communities in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Australia. The Greek presented in this course is representative of the "kathomilumeni" variety, that is, that of the "standard" speech of educated Greeks. It is neither colloquial nor strictly formal. In the written materials the Greek alphabet is used from the beginning. The first ten units in Volume 1 are written both in Greek characters and in English Romanized transcription; thereafter everything is written in Greek characters. Typically, each lesson includes a basic dialog and narrative, plus a series of response drills including substitution and transformation exercises. Each text also provides a Greek-English glossary. This course provides introductory materials in modern spoken Greek for the student who wishes to achieve a working command of the language currently spoken by educated Greeks. The style is neither entirely demotic (colloquial) nor strictly formal. The Greek orthography is used from the beginning so that the students learn to read what they have learned to say. The second and third levels carry the student further into the grammar and vocabulary of spoken Greek, and gradually introduce the more formal spoken and written forms known as 'katharevousa', used on formal occasions by all educated Greeks, and commonly encountered in the press. Level One has 16 audio CD discs, and Level Two has 12 audio CD discs.

Audio Forum. Includes 12 audio CD discs ( = 12 hours), and a 199-page textbook.

Includes 30 instruction units of 30 minutes on 16 audio CD discs. THE PIMSLEUR METHOD: With the Pimsleur Language Programs you don't just study a language, you learn it -- the same way you mastered English! And because the technique relies on interactive spoken language training, the Pimsleur Language Programs are totally audio -- no book is needed! The Pimsleur programs provide a method of self-practice with an expert teacher and native speakers in lessons specially designed to work with the way the mind naturally acquires language information. The various components of language -- vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar -- are all learned together without rote memorization and drills. Using a unique method of memory recall developed by renowned linguist, Dr. Paul Pimsleur, the programs teach listeners to combine words and phrases to express themselves the way native speakers do. By listening and responding to thirty minute recorded lessons, students easily and effectively achieve spoken proficiency. No other language program or school is as quick, convenient, and effective as the Pimsleur Language Programs. The Pimsleur language courses are offered in both the "Basic" and the "Comprehensive" programs. The Comprehensive Program is the ultimate in spoken language learning. For those who want to become proficient in the language of their choice, the Comprehensive programs go beyond the Basic Programs to offer true spoken-language fluency. Using the same simple method of interactive self-practice with native speakers, these comprehensive programs provide a complete language learning course. The Comprehensive Programs are available in a wide variety of languages and run through three levels (thirty lessons each). At the end of a full Comprehensive Program listeners will be conducting complete conversations and be well on their way to mastering the language.

Hippocrene Books. Includes 1,500 entries. Romanized. This book covers everything a traveler to Greece would want to know. It includes an English-Greek dictionary and phrasebook, common Greek expressions, and a Greek festive and religious calendar. All entries include phonetic pronunciation, and there is an appendix of geographical place names and maps as well as weights and measures, numbers and amounts. Paperback. 270 pages. Size 4-1/4"x7".

Hippocrene Books. This dictionary lists over 8,000 headwords on each side, totaling about 16,000 words. Because the series concentrates on the needs of travellers, Greek Concise includes vocabulary of practical use to people traveling, staying, or living outside their native land. The author focused on tourists, emigrants, and businesspeople when compiling this list, but kept the employee of government and international organizations in mind as well. As a phonetic aid to the reader, pronunciation is facilitated using a simple transliteration system for both directions at one. The feminine and the neuter endings are listed in addition to the masculine ones.

Includes 6 audio CD discs of two hours each ( = 6 hours). This unusual method uses no text or printed materials. You learn by listening to audio CD's while driving, cooking, gardening, walking, or doing some other monotonous task. You only play the audio CD discs when you are already doing something. That's why it requires No Time! The course is introductory-level and will help you master the basics of the language for business or travel; yet the grammar and sentences are contemporary and not simplistic. There is extensive vocabulary and conversation practice, plus an explanation of the language's structure and grammar. The course consists of two hours each of conversation, speaking, and vocabulary ( = 6 hours). Before you know it, you will begin acquiring vocabulary and comprehend sentence structure by hearing it only__and it does work!

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