Pimsleur Greek (Modern) Level 1 Lessons 1-5 Volume 1

Learn to Speak and Understand Modern Greek with Pimsleur Language Programs

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The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Modern Greek
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Modern Greek — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it into action.

Why Pimsleur?
• Quick + Easy – Only 30 minutes a day.
• Portable + Flexible – Core lessons can be done anytime, anywhere, and easily fit into your busy life.
• Proven Method – Works when other methods fail.
• Self-Paced – Go fast or go slow – it’s up to you.
• Based in Science – Developed using proven research on memory and learning.
• Cost-effective – Less expensive than classes or immersion, and features all native speakers.
• Genius – Triggers your brain’s natural aptitude to learn.
• Works for everyone – Recommended for ages 13 and above.

What’s Included?
• 5, 30-minute audio lessons,
• In total, 2.5 hours of audio, all featuring native speakers

What You’ll Learn
This course includes Lessons 1-5 from the Modern Greek Level 1 program featuring 2.5 hours of language instruction. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation, and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons is included in each lesson. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Modern Greek.

Whether you want to travel, communicate with friends or colleagues, reconnect with family, or just understand more of what’s going on in the world around you, Pimsleur will help you learn Modern Greek and expand your horizons and enrich your life.

Best course

Its the best language course sofar but still some expressions and words that arent actually used by people. Noone says, Jerete or ti kanete.

learn greek the easy ways

easy to follow, practical in dialogue. missed some info but they review all text before moving on.

Introductions

I liked the way it was presented as “run on sentences “ because that is the speed at which Greek is spoken and I need that practice but, the words in the conversation are not as modern as I have heard when I listen to my Greek friends greet each other. Also, it was hard to hear the pronunciation of the words I was unfamiliar with and I found myself wanting to see them written because I know how to pronounce the letters of the Greek alphabet. Just a quick glance at how an unfamiliar word is spelled and would be able to say it correctly. Sometimes iphone speakers aren’t as distinctive as an “in person” conversation when correct pronunciation is vital.
All-in-all this learning experience is proving to be a likable one even though I’m only on the second lesson but, will I be able to print the lessons out in the end?
Thank you, Gail Kosturos

Reasonably easy to follow

Learning a language is hard. These speakers were easy to understand and the enunciation was good

Very instructive but the conversation framing urgently needs modernising!

It was a great way to learn some basic Greek while travelling the country. The extensive pronounciation training often lead to us being confused for Greeks when greeting someone. The repetitional method is very effective and provides you with a solid if not very large vocabulary in the end.
A big minus however is the conversation setting: a US American man (represented by the learner) calling over to an unmarried Greek woman to ask her for directions and then ask if she would like to eat/drink something. Seriously?! It was furthermore assumed that the listener is from the US, which is unnecessary.

Good introduction to spoken Greek

Overall, I really like the content. The quantity is about right, not too overwhelming. Thus, the content is digestible in the format provided.

Good, but could be great!

It is good. However, it would be nice if the speaker could state whether (in English) certain words, phrases or syllables are synonymous with the English 'V' or 'th'. E.g is it Amerikaniva or Amerikanitha? It is e-ovos or e-othos? It makes a massive difference! Further, the difference in pronunciation by the female and male speaker sometimes assists one in being able to compare it with a syllable you know, though at other times it is actually the root of the confusion. Lastly, I feel the jump in Chapter 5 was a bit extreme. Notwithstanding the above, I am certain that (I can) and I definitely plan to finish learning Greek (entire series) with Pimsleur!

very well done

it was amazing very simple, easy to follow. I'm doing better with greek then all the times I've visited family in Greece

Excellent and very effective introduction.

The slow syllable-by-syllable pronunciation is extremely effective, as is the graded progression and the structure whereby each lesson built on and reinforces previous lessons. What is the best audio tools for learning a new language I have ever used. However, it is audio only and I find it useful to supplement the audio instruction with written exercises, flashcards, etc.

Ultra formal

These lessons are good. However, they teach the ultra formal way of speaking with older people in a form of Greek that rarely gets used anymore, especially by younger Greeks. Some of the verbs such as to eat and to drink are different from the verbs used more commonly today