How to think in Greek + language trips 2023 (in slow Greek)

[@pwp8737]

I lived in Greece for four years and learned the language. I was on Santorini about a year in, with co-worker/friends sharing a hotel room. The first morning we went down to the restaurant for breakfast and one of my friends told me that I talk in my sleep. I apologized, but he laughed and said I was talking in Greek. That's when I realized my brain had made the switch.

[@Linguatree]

Ahaha such a great story! Love it!

[@stevedallaspiano777]

You are a wonderful teacher! I discovered that there are usually ways to say in English the way it is said in Greek, but it usually involves using less common words. For instance, we in America could say "I am awaiting Kristina" but normally we don't say it like that. Another example was trying to understand the concept of "liking" this or that. I always rehearsed in my mind, saying, "this apple pleases me" or "these apples please me" and then all the words in the case they appear in Greek made sense. I am studying German now and when I go back to the study of Greek, I am relieved by Greek's logical structure. I was listening to your video on jokes or puns, and was thinking it was surprising that Greek could have jokes based on homophones since the language is so naturally precise.

[@iberius9937]

I love how totally English you sound when you switch! Lol.

[@Linguatree]

Oh, thank you so very much!

[@GoExploreGreece]

As a newbie learning Greek, this really is a great video and makes so much sense. Thank you.

[@Linguatree]

Thank you so much for your supportive words! Learning Greek is an introduction to a different way of thinking and I am sure you will find it interesting :) Keep up the good work!

[@Wandering.Homebody]

Ναι, αλήθεια!

[@greenreed]

I’m watching this video and thinking it’s perfect for trying to write it down and see if i can write all the words correctly:)

[@iberius9937]

Ευχαριστώ! Είσαι δώρο για μας!

[@Linguatree]

Σ' ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ :)

[@craighughes536]

I've done it for 7 years..anglisizing greek phrases..I needed this video

[@Linguatree]

I keep doing that sometimes, if I stay too long in Greece 😂

[@НиколайСаввониди]

Παρα πολυ ενδιαφερων και χρησιμο για ολους πιοι αρχησαν να μαθει ελληνικα. Ευχαριστω πολυ για την δουλια σασ👌

[@Eleni520]

- thank you - nothing ... από τα αγαπημένα μου!!🤣

[@angelcake88888]

Το προηγούμενο μάθημα μου, είπα «περπατάω το σκύλο μου.» Η δασκάλα μου μου είπε το σωστό φράση. :) Ευχάριστο το βίντεο! Είναι βοηθητικός!

[@oogabooga4813]

Thanks for the video, Yiouli! Sending some love to you 🇧🇷❤

[@Linguatree]

Thank you so much! I am glad you liked it! Φιλάκια και σε σένα!

[@pacobajito85]

Ευχαριστώ πολύ, Γιούλη. Τα βίδεό σου είναι πάντα υπέροχα, γιατί καταλαβάνεις τα προβλήματα που έχουμε, όταν μαθαίνουμε μίαν ξενή γλώσσα. Eυτυχώς ιταλικά και ελλενικά μοιράζονται πολλές λέξεις κι εκφράσεις. Θα έπρεπε μόνον να κάνεις τα βίδεο πιο συχνά ;-) Φιλάκια πολλά από της Iταλίας 🙂

[@manorueda]

Μου άρεσε αυτό το βίντεο, πρόσφατα σκεφτόμουν ακριβώς αυτό, τι σημαίνει να σκέφτομαι σε άλλη γλώσσα. Υπάρχουν πολλές εκφράσεις που λειτουργούν σαν μια κανονική λέξη και είναι σημαντικό να τις γνωρίζουμε αν θέλουμε να μιλάμε φυσικά. Υπέροχα νέα για τα τρία ταξίδια για φέτος! Θα τα τσεκάρω! 😃

[@andrescoronel1740]

Filákia pola epísis, isai mi kalí daskála, ki mathéno apo esena kathe meriná, se agapó, kai efxaristó polí yia afto to máthima.😊

[@SStoik]

χαμηλά φωτιά 😂🤣

[@Linguatree]

Αχαχαχα πόσο αλήθεια! Έπρεπε να το βάλω κι αυτό στο βίντεο! low fire

[@RyanIbis92]

Another common thing expressed differently is 'I have a bath/shower.' in English. In Greek, this would be, I think 'Κάνω μπάνιο/ντούς.' Κάνω not έχω.

[@ihorperec4990]

Sometimes a beautiful phrase from a foreign language sticks in your memory and stays there for years. Despite the fact that you don't speak the language. That's what happened to me with the Greek phrase "Hellenici radiophonia telechorasi" (Greek radio and television broadcasting). Well, the phrase got stuck in my head and that's it. Back in the 1990s, I used to love listening to shortwave radio broadcasts, and apparently that's when I accidentally heard the phrase. A couple of years ago, my spouse and I were eating at a restaurant in the small town of Cold Springs, a couple of hours outside of New York City. There was a young couple sitting at a nearby table talking in a foreign language (not English). I eavesdropped for a few seconds and realized that they spoke Greek. Although I am an extremely shy person, curiosity made me turn to them ask: -- I am awfully sorry for intruding on your conversation but isn't that Greek you're speaking? The guy and the girl (tourists from Greece) were very happy that someone recognized their native language in some small town in the United States. I told them that I didn't know a single word of Greek except for the phrase "Hellenici radiophonia telechorasi." There was no limit to their joy and delight when they heard that phrase from my lips. For some reason I was reminded of this episode in connection with the general elections held in Greece on Sunday, June 25. Elections in any European country today are very important because of Russia's aggression in Ukraine. Military, financial and moral support from even small European countries is very important, no matter how modest. Fortunately, voters expressed their support for the center-right New Democracy party, which has been in power since 2019. It will get 160 seats out of 300 in parliament. Its leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis actively supports Ukraine and because of him some light weapons were provided to Ukraine. This is despite the fact that 70 percent of Greeks oppose military aid to Ukraine. The aid to Ukraine is also criticized by the opposition leftist party SYRIZA, which advocates a diplomatic solution to the "conflict". SYRIZA (whose leader is Alexis Tsipras) was in power in 2015-2019, when Greece almost left the Eurozone and the country's economy was in a poor state. Since then, its prestige has fallen dramatically, but the party still won 47 seats in the new parliament. In third place is the socialist PASOK-KINAL party, which received 32 seats. This is as far as the mainstream parties are concerned. And on the extreme flanks there are two new parties: the ultra-left Sailing for Freedom is nudging Tsipras' party from the extreme left, and the new nationalist, anti-immigrant SPARTANS party is nudging New Democracy from the extreme the right. Moreover, many suspect that "the Spartans" are the direct heirs of the neo-fascist Golden Dawn party, which was banned in 2020. In 2023, a new ultra-Orthodox party, NIKI, emerged out of nowhere and immediately entered parliament with an openly pro-Russian, anti-European stance. In general, the Orthodox Church in Greece is the main stronghold of pro-Russian sentiment in the country, although the head of the church himself, 85-year-old Archbishop Hieronymos II, has taken a more balanced approach. In October 2019, Hieronymous II sent a letter to Metropolitan Epiphanius, the head of the non-canonical (from the perspective of the Moscow Patriarchate) Church of Ukraine, in which he declared official recognition of the structure. In response, the Russian Orthodox Church terminated eucharistic communion with the Archbishop of Greece as of November 3, 2019. Returning to the election, it must be said that under New Democracy Greece has developed very successfully economically, has actively cooperated with the EU and has generally maintained stability and social peace. May the next few years be the same.

[@FarukKhan-x1f]

kalos

[@adrianacapozzi1138]

Ευχαριστώ ❤, μου αρέσει πολύ το κανάλι σου

[@vickyknoedler1019]

Ευχαριστώ πολύ! Τα βίδεο σας είναι θαυμάσια. Μπορώ να σας στείλω χρήματα να σας βοηθήσω με τις προσπάθειες σας;

[@konstantinosstavropoulos3605]

good

[@hyundisy]

i love your videos! ευχαριστώ πολύ!

[@Linguatree]

Ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ για τα καλά σου λόγια! Καλή συνέχεια!

[@kokokali3681]

Love this ❤ so glad I found this video 🙏 thank you

[@rayjoel7505]

Λατρεύω τα βίντεό σας η αγαπώ τα βίντεο σας; anyways I love your videos. Ευχαριστώ

[@Linguatree]

Ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ :) Χαίρομαι πολύ να βοηθάω μαθητές που αγαπούν την ελληνική γλώσσα :)

[@angelagrace8265]

Great video. Thank you. Could you make a video on the many different uses of και ? Thanks.

[@Linguatree]

Hi, I have already one :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnO3g6iHqbFlhZY&ab_channel=Linguatree

[@zenaibabaid6245]

Πολύ ωραίο βίντεο, μου άρεσε τόσο πολύ! Εγώ πλέον σκέφτομαι πολύ στα ελληνικά, ακόμα κι αν δε μιλάω, στο μυαλό μου σκέφτομαι ελληνικά πάντα. κάποιες φορές τα αγγλικά μου είναι χάλια επειδή σκέφτομαι στα ελληνικά πάντα χαχαχαχα, Και φαντάσου, δεν είμαι στην Ελλάδα. δεν ξέρω τι έπαθα, αλλά μάλλον έμαθα καλά τη γλώσσα. είμαι σίγουρη με αυτό το βίντεο θα καταλάβουν πολλά άτομα πώς να σκέφτονται στη γλώσσα που μαθαίνουν . Ευχαριστώ πολυ Γιούλη 😘

[@Linguatree]

Μπράβο Zenaib! Έχεις κάνει τρομερή πρόοδο στα ελληνικά σου, πραγματικά. Φαίνεται και στον τρόπο που γράφεις! Σου αξίζουν συγχαρητήρια!

[@seckinyildirim6621]

🙏

[@ysbel]

This video is really helpful. Do you have any videos about Greek word order? I know it’s more fluid in Greek than In English but I still ‘think in English’ with word order and I often don’t understand what’s spoken because it’s not in the word order I’m expecting from being a native English speaker.

[@Linguatree]

That's an amazing video idea! I still struggle to form English sentences the English way. I will study about it and I will come up with a video :) Thanks for sharing!

[@ysbel]

@@Linguatreethanks! I look forward to it!

[@valerijajovanovic2020]

Greek has an almost absolutely free word order so you can put (almost) any word in any place

[@ysbel]

@@valerijajovanovic2020 that’s great when I want to make a sentence; not so great when I want to understand a sentence in spoken Greek.

[@valerijajovanovic2020]

@@ysbel It's a bit confusing at first, but you get used to it being all over the place

[@shahadatarman]

Mem i want to learn greek

[@НиколайСаввониди]

Ειμαι ροσσοελληνας, αν εχετε προβλιματα, μου ρωτιστε παρακαλω.

[@Gamblezee]

I only think in Greek on my sleep. I think in English awakened the speak Greek only when a Greek is present. Otherwise, I talk to myself swearing in Italian when I think of my ex wife. Once I marry you I will sleep Greek wake Greek and speak Greek 😂