Easy Languages: Stories of Language Learning

5: Big Fat Greek Worms: Discovering the Ingenious Language with Dimitris


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In this episode we celebrate a new milestone: the Easy Greek YouTube channel has reached 50k subscribers! We invited Dimitris to learn a little bit more about his passions but also his family, heritage and languages.

We also discussed the history of the Greek language and its influences on today's Europe and why his students decided to learn the language of mythology and philosophy.

Finally, Dimitris shares his approach to raising multilingual children and his language-learning tips for grown-ups.

Show Notes
  • Easy Greek Videos:

    • How to Make Spanakopita Like a Greek Mum | Easy Greek 92
    • Do Modern Greeks Know Ancient Greek? | Easy Greek 12
    • Modern Greeks Try to Read Ancient Greek | Easy Greek 56
    • The Greek Alphabet 1: Pronunciation | Super Easy Greek 3
    • Little Kook, Athens (Tripadvisor)

    • Strange Brew, Athens (Tripadvisor)

    • Saganaki (Wikipedia)

    • History of Greek (Wikipedia)

    • The Ingenious Language, Andrea Marcolongo (Amazon)

    • Book Review (The Guardian)

    • Easy Greek Podcast 94: Οι κατηγορίες των Easy Greekers

    • Big Fat Greek Wedding, "Give my any word" scene with Mr Portokalos

    • The word for orange (fruit) in many languages, map (Maps on the Web)

    • In Greek mythology, apricots were believed to be "golden apples" (Jogobella)

    • Greece-Italy relations (Wikipedia)

    • "Una faccia, una razza" (Greek Reporter)

    • One person, one language (Wikipedia)

    • ...more
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