Teach Yourself Fast Track Instant Greek

Book and 2 Audio CDs

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Teach Yourself Fast Track Instant Greek - Learn to Speak Greek with Book and 2 Audio CDs

 2  CDs plus  book

 45 minutes a day in 6 weeks you'll speak greek!

Elisabeth Smith has used her wide teaching experience to write a course that covers just the vocabulary and the grammar that you really need. This day-by-day programme is easy to follow and fun to do. At the end of six weeks, you'll have the confidence and knowledge to tackle all the situations you need to know about, such as shopping, eating out and getting around. With just the essential words and phrases to learn, and flashcards at the back of the book to help learn them, progress is fast and enjoyable.

By the end of this course, you will be at Level A2 of the Common European Framework for Languages: Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions. Can communicate in simple and routine tasks.

Structured learning - easy to follow and keep to 'Bare bones' grammar - friendly no-nonsense explanation in the book and on the audio recordings

Minimum vocabulary - learn only what is useful and necessary 2 hours of audio - more practice in pronunciation and speaking

Readership:
Adults looking for a self-access course which is structured yet has a new, grammar-free approach to learning enough of the basics of Greek to prepare them for a holiday or business trip

Table of Contents:

Read this first How this book works Progress chart Only got a minute? Only got five minutes? Only got ten minutes? Day-by-day guide In the aeroplane Sto aeroplano New words Pronunciation Good news grammar Learn by heart Let’s speak Greek Let’s speak more Greek Let’s speak Greek – fast and fluently Test your progress

Day-by-day guide Let’s go and eat Pame na fame New words Good news grammar Learn by heart Say it simply Let’s speak Greek Let’s speak more Greek Let’s speak Greek – fast and fluently Spot the keys Test your progress Day-by-day guide On the move Taksithevondas New words Learn by heart Good news grammar Let’s speak Greek Let's speak more Greek Let’s speak Greek – fast and fluently Spot the keys Test your progress

Day-by-day guide In Koukounaries Stis Koukounaries New words Good news grammar Let’s speak Greek Let’s speak more Greek Let’s speak Greek – fast and fluently Learn by heart Test your progress Day-by-day guide Let’s go shopping Pame ya psonia New words Spot the keys Good news grammar Let’s speak Greek Let’s speak more Greek Let’s speak Greek – fast and fluently Learn by heart Test your progress

Day-by-day guide At the airport Sto aerothromio New words Learn by heart Spot the keys Good news grammar Say it simply Let’s speak Greek Let’s speak more Greek Let’s speak Greek – fast and fluently Test your progress Answers Flash cards Greek–English dictionary English–Greek dictionary Certificate

About the Author Elizabeth Smith

:Elisabeth Smith has published more than 30 books, CDs and DVDs in 11 different languages. She has taught enthusiastic audiences all over the world. Her unique entertaining courses are international bestsellers with over one million copies sold.

About the Greek Language

Greek has a documented history of 3,400 years, the longest of any single natural language in the Indo-European language family. It is also one of the earliest attested Indo-European languages, with fragmentary records in Mycenaean dating back to the 15th or 14th century BC, making it the world's oldest recorded living language. Today, it is spoken by approximately 17–25 million people in Greece (official), Cyprus (official), Albania, Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Italy, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Egypt, Jordan and emigrant communities around the world, including Australia, United States, Canada, Germany and elsewhere.

Greek has been written in the Greek alphabet (the oldest continuously used alphabet, and the first to introduce vowels) since the 9th century BC in Greece (before that in Linear B), and the 4th century BC in Cyprus (before that in Cypriot syllabary). Greek literature has a continuous history of nearly three thousand years.

Greek is a language distinguished by an extraordinarily rich vocabulary. In respect to the roots of words, ancient Greek vocabulary was essentially of Indo-European origin, but with a significant number of borrowings from the idioms of the populations that inhabited Greece before the arrival of Proto-Greeks. Words of non-Indo-European origin can be traced into Greek from as early as Mycenaean times; they include a large number of Greek toponyms. The vast majority of Modern Greek vocabulary is directly inherited from ancient Greek, although in certain cases words have changed meanings. Words of foreign origin have entered the language mainly from Latin, Italian and Ottoman Turkish. During older periods of the Greek language, loan words into Greek acquired Greek inflections, leaving thus only a foreign root word. Modern borrowings (from the 20th century on), especially from French and English, are typically not inflected.

Like most Indo-European languages, Greek is highly inflected. Greek grammar has come down through the ages fairly intact, though with some simplifications. For example, Modern Greek features two numbers: singular and plural. The dual number of Ancient times was abandoned at a very early stage. The instrumental case of Mycenaean Greek disappeared in the Archaic period, and the dative-locative of Ancient Greek disappeared in the late Hellenistic. Four cases, nominative, genitive, accusative and vocative, remain in Modern Greek. The three ancient gender noun categories (masculine, feminine and neuter) never fell out of use, while adjectives agree in gender, number, and case with their respective nouns, as do their articles. Greek verbs have synthetic inflectional forms for:

* mood — Ancient Greek: indicative, subjunctive, imperative, and optative; Modern Greek: indicative and imperative (other modal functions are expressed by periphrastic constructions)
* number — singular, plural (archaic Greek also had a dual)
* voice — Ancient Greek: active, middle, and passive; Modern Greek: active and medio-passive
* tense — Ancient Greek: present, past, future; Modern Greek: past and non-past (future is expressed by a periphrastic construction)
* person — first, second, third
* aspect — Ancient Greek: imperfective, perfective (traditionally called aorist), perfect (sometimes also called perfective, see note about terminology); Modern Greek: perfective and imperfective

Teach Yourself Fast Track Instant Greek - Learn to Speak Greek with Book and 2 Audio CDs