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    Tranixé Peoone lomavixé Eounsixd | ME@OAO! t Ayyau Fahad Feppavixd Trade PwoiKd lomavixé EMnviKg | | I ALAAOTrOL | AyyAIKG | AdBavixd | Apapixa I BouAyapixa ree Teppavixa lotrwvikd OMavBiKG Tlokewvixe Moptoyanixa Poupavixe Pood | | EepBixd, Eounbixa | Tovpraxé } REL O)El i Mingle PUD EERO ee Bibliography Neoedamt Toaywucec Mavens Tpraveapei2iane. ABAva, 1991 Avdorpopoy Avtiniy mye Nias Eddy. T.L Kovpuoving. ABiva, 1967, Askin Phyary ye Néag Eddmviis Peboous. Exdéon Heeovlirov. Adiva Elinvoaypiuns-Aplockigpis Astind. Exdéotis AIATOPAS, AQiva, Pag Pidava, ‘Topona Medecav Aaunpaixn, T. Maayscioeng, ABiva, 1995 Ta Néa EXdrpnte na Sivoo. Aptororéisio Tavemorhwo Occoakovlins, Ivottrobro Noosdasyvuxiv Exovdkiv. Oecoaovixn, 1988 © Copy yay Eda do rv nH vox: E Zoutnonseng Tyapoinas 1068 AbHva 330149 MANDESON ME@OAOI Learn GREEK WITHOUT A TEACHER A modern method to learn Greek in 25 lessons Dvrypagy pedssou ‘at pskrpovuct aedadonoinon Graciela Feller Empéi.ca sing ‘Teévn Ziértov aleoner Jerno baseto TOOTHAT Zo AIATOPAZ items PROLOGUE ur publishing organization offers an opportunity for English speaking people to get acquainted with the Mod- em Greek language, ‘This method, «l.cam Greek without a teacher», belongs to the well known MANDESON series, It consists of 25 lessons which contain a rich vocabu- lary, exact pronunciation anda complete grammar of Mod- fem Greek, It also contains exercises with a key, a great vvaiety of texts and every day dialogues to help the student practice the language. With this method, the readers will beable to familiar. ize themselves with the beauty and richness of the Greek language, sit has developed through the centuries. ‘We hope this method will be a useful guide for all the English speaking people who want to achieve a good com- ‘mand of Modern Greek. The Greek alphabet Pronunciation ‘Asa (alpha) pronoueedas 3 incar BB (vita) " yinyoice Tay (yama) "yy imyearan ng @ in strong a 48 Getta) * h@) inten Ee (epsilon) a 6 left Zh (ia) " g inzero Hin (ita) not in bill 0.8 (ita) te inti ) a i inbill Kx (kappa) a AY (lamba) yk intuek My (mi) > mm inmine Nv Gai) * mn inmnone EE (xi) yx imextra 9 —(omicron) = 6 hfami Tx (i) "pina Pp (to) sk intow Zoos (sigma) 7s imsome © 2 ino Tr (ta) yt intake Yv Cipsilon) mini ®q (phi) Sf Infast Xx thi) 7h inbe tw (es). aan Myo (omeys) 7 9 in from 10), before the vowels «,0,0,00. {@)_ before the consonants X76. (9) before the consonants Bi7.8,2.th¥9. (9 The leter gis used only atthe end of words. ‘The Greek alphabet has 7 vowels: a, 9, 1,0, 2, and 17 consonants: B, 7, 8,6 0, ys Ys EM Pa GT, V. Pronunciation of diphthongs a is pronounced as ein left a is pronounced as in bill a is pronounced as iin bill ov is pronounced as 00 in tool, room. ‘av,zvqv before a vowel or before the consonants BarSZInuvp these diphthongs are pro- nounced as av, ev, iv respectively. Before the consonants Ox<5.0,7,00¥ they ate pronounced as af, ef If respectively, Pronunciation of pairs of consonants n before the vowels a0 (expo, agoo"ri) is pronounced as before the vowels 6 its pronounced as ng (éqyeias, a’nguelos) 1K atthe beginning of word itis pronounced sg (rn, gaz) inthe middle of a word itis pronounced as ng (ayxahsé,angalia") i atthe beginning of a word itis pronounced sb (jp, bar) inthe mide of a word itis pronounced as 1mb (exp, embro's) ” atthe beginning of a word it is pronounced asd (spam, dropi’) a the middle of a word itis pronounced as nd (névte, pene). In this book you are going to find the full pronunciation ‘of sentences up to the end of Lesson 3. From Lesson 4 on vou will find the pronunciation of words inthe Vocabulary of each fsson. Accentus jion Accentuation is very important in the Greek language. “The same word can sometimes have a different meaning depending on which syllable is stressed. “There is only one accent in Modem Greek, the acute. The accent indicates the stressed syllable, and it i not writen ‘over capital letters or over monosyllable words, except Tor some exceptions. “The dieresis is used to separate two letters which would ‘otherwise be pronounced as one sound. Compare, for example the difference between naibéxt (‘peda'ki", child) and web (“pa-i-da’ki, ctl. Punctuation ‘The comma, the full stop and the other punctuation marks are like in English. The raised dot corresponds to the English colon, The question mark is (9). Cases ‘There are four cases: + Nominative (ovoyactief) is the case we use when we answer the question who? or what? OT wpy0 wider. George is talking. 1H Mapa yéver 056. Mary lives here. To ont civ opaio, The house is beautiful © Genitive (revi): is the case we use when we answer the question whose? ‘To xp tov ovpavos. The colour of the sky. 0 axépac mg Edévns. Helen’ father Accusative (arrarruc): is the ease we use when We answer the question whom? or what? BAéno tov GvOpono. I see the man, Ayopato my epnnepiéa. I buy the newspaper. Vocative (way) isthe case we use when we call ‘or address someone ot something, Tispéote, xpre. Come in, sir. Tuarpé, va ong porn rst; Doctor, can Task you something? 10 Lesson 1 Greetings, Personal pronouns. The verb “to be” (eluas). Countries and nationalities. Negation. Professions. T verb “to do” (dv). Vocabulary. Exercises -Koinnépa, Mapia, Good moming, Mary. “Kaknnépa, Tspy0. Good morning, George. -Kadnonépa, Ehévn, Good evening, Helen, Texdvarg, How are you? -Kehé sia. Eyapeed, —T'm fine. Thank you. How Bob ti xévets; are you “Kah ely 6 ey, I'm fine, too, Dow ous, 1 iivers; Hello, how are you? “Kadi eljaote, Boolg, "Weave fine. And you? “Eyzlg &or x érar. Eyouye So, so. We have a lot of ‘x000s} Souhent. work. “Xaipere! -Good afternoon, “Xaipere! “Good aftemoon, Kodvinga, newb Good night, children. ‘Sleep well Good night, mum, -Good bye, Mrs. Jane. “Good bye, my chil (Give) my regards to your pareats + With pleasure, Personal pronouns (nominative) Mpovomnés avrovoniss (ovowaorsxt) (oe) (es!) (afto's, 1", -0' (emi's) (esi') (ah, es, -0') ‘The verb “to be” To priua “cinaw” 6) Tam (ime) (cov) | youare —(i'se) (avr6s, aves, ave6) (eustc) (coric) (avr, avrés, avré) he, she, itis (ne) weare —(i’maste) youare — (i'ste) {they are fi’ne) ‘We use the second person of the plural (eiote) also as @ form of politeness Bore moks rao ywaOnrés, (plural) (ste poli’ kali” mathite's} You are very good pupils, Mids fare amepa, xupir NoBapénc; (politeness) (Po'si'stesi’mera krl"a nodara’ki) How are you today Mrs, Nodaraki? 2 Bie oiyoupoc, Kips Niko; (politeness) (ste si’youros, ie niko?) Are you sure, Mr. Nikos? In Greek it isnot always necessary 10 use the personal pronouns because the verbs have a different form (ending) for each person. Thus, we say: -Bipaase and omy Ayia. We are from England. (F'maste apo’ tn angli'a) Biya Susmydpos. Tam a lawyer. (U'me dikio'ros) -Biore pals; Are you together? (I’ste mazi"?) -H Mapuésra sivan axé 10 Béto. (i maria’na ine apo” to 0'lo) Marianna is from Volos. Rian adci9ds f eee 90 ms Kodtvvacs (se adelfo's | exa’belfos tis ioa’nas?) ‘Are you Toanna’s brother or cousin? But we ean of course use the personal pronouns in order to stress the subject ofthe sentence: -Byolg eluate axd my Aria. We are from England. (Emmis ’maste apo" tin angli’a) -Byéo ely Suenyopog. am a lawyer. (Eyo" i'me éikiyo'ros) “Boolg clove walk; Are you together? (Ess iste mazi'?) Let us now see some countries and nationalities (nope ‘eat vinkoéentes). As you can observe, thee is one form forthe masculine and another form forthe feminine: B Aria, Ayflos, Aryhida. England, English Atyurvos, Arybreac, Atyonia, Egypt, Egyptian Anspusi, Apepcavis, Auepocaviba, America, American Aprevava, Aprevewse, Apvevewiia, Argentina, Argentinian Avorpadia, Avorpahss, Avorpahéta Australia, Australian Avorpfa, Avorpiaxés, Avevpiand. Austria, Austrian Bin, Békyoc, Bedyiba. Belgium, Belgian Padi, PéAo:, PoaAiba, France, French spyavia, Pepunvss, Tepuoviga, Germany, German ‘Aavia, Aavés, Aavéta, Deamark, Danish Eaieria, Eaficrds, Faferiba. Switzerland, Swiss Mba, Edqvas, EAdyviba. Greece, Grook Tenovia, Iixavas, Traxawvéta. Japan, Japanese Toxavia, lorav6s, Ionaviba. Spain, Spanish Fradia, loudss, rohiBa, tly, lalian Kavadés, Kuvaiés, Kovabéa, Canada, Canadian Kiva, Kvéloc, Kivéta. China, Chinese Kénpos, Kinpios, Kinpua. Cyprus, Cypriot Oidavbia, O73.avb6:, OnAavbé%a, Holland, Dutch Tloproyaria, Toproyiias, HoproyaAiba Portugal, Portuguese Posia, Péoos, Pooiba, Russia, Russian Eowmbia, Lounbéc, Lounséza, Sweden, Swedish ‘Tovpxta, Tospxos, Tovpxta. Turkey, Turkish Most countries have feminine gender and thus take a Feminine article (n EAGBa, m Ayyhia). Some exceptions are: © Kavabéc (Canada), 70 Bano (Belgium), ot Hytuéves Hokies (the United States) ox Stes (India), 10 Iapafi. (src), to AouéeuBodpyo (Luxembourg).In ‘order to ask someone about his or her nationality we say: ~Ané mo siots; (apo" pow iste?) Biot ex mv Auepnc or Elum Auspesavs, (i’me apo’ tin ameriki me amerikano's) “4 f | -Where do you come from? “Teome from America (Iam American. Bos Pot, and x06 slam; (es, ro'za, apo" pou se?) “Eijat and ey Toa oF Bip Pedaiba. {ime apo" tiyalia) “You, Rose, where are you from? “Tam from France (I am French) And x06 efvat 1 xopia Téspo; (apo' pou’ ine kira pe'tra?) “H xpi [léspa efvan end ry Tepyavia. (i kin'a pe'ta ne apo’ ti yermani'a) Where is Mrs. Petra from? Mrs. Petra is from Germany. 1f we want to say a negative sentence we use the particles xu (n0) and Bey (do not, does not, am not, is no...)

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