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Learning Greek, speaking Cypriot: what’s wrong with a classroom in dialect?

The Cypriot dialect has travelled a long way from the margins. Once confined to casual conversations and jokes among friends, it is now breaking into public life, heard in radio ads, TV sketches, and ...
Greek Reporter

Middle Greek: The Language That Shaped Modern Greek

Learn about the journey of the Greek language from its ancient origins to the vernacular of modern Greece through the lens of Middle Greek.
EurekAlert!

Last chance to record archaic Greek language ‘heading for extinction’

A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to ...
Inc

How to Get Better at Speaking a Foreign Language, According to Science: Drink a Beer

Regular readers of this column (or just casual glancers at my bio) know I live abroad in Cyprus, a small Greek-speaking island in the Mediterranean. That means I’ve spent the last several years trying ...
Variety

ABC Family speaking ‘Greek’

It’s all “Greek” to ABC Family, which has picked up 10 more episodes of the college-set drama. ABC Family initially greenlit 10 segs of “Greek”; the additional order, confirmed Tuesday, brings the ...