{"id":10084,"date":"2006-04-27T19:00:31","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/27\/milas-elenika\/"},"modified":"2006-04-27T19:00:31","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T16:00:31","slug":"milas-elenika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/27\/milas-elenika\/","title":{"rendered":"Milas Elenika?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I&#8217;ve been promising that if I get Cyprus citizenship, I&#8217;ll learn Greek.  It&#8217;s about time I start acting up on that promise&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I will be participating in the Greek course that our company organized for its employees.  Starting next Tuesday, I&#8217;ll have one and a half hour lectures twice a week.  The teacher, I&#8217;ve heard, has good reputation and a lot of experience in teaching Greek to foreigners.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep you posted on how this will go.  Or you&#8217;ll notice yourself &#8211; Greek alphabet looks very much like Russian cyrillics.  And I am not going to post anything in Russian here.  So, if you see something you can&#8217;t read &#8211; it means the courses is doing very good and I learn Greek faster than I can start a new blog (trust me, I&#8217;m fast with starting new blogs).<\/p>\n<p>Any pointers to language learning techniques, Greek language textbooks, and other tips, are, as always, very welcome.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I&#8217;ve been promising that if I get Cyprus citizenship, I&#8217;ll learn Greek. It&#8217;s about time I start acting up on that promise&#8230; I will be participating in the Greek course that our company organized for its employees. Starting next Tuesday, I&#8217;ll have one and a half hour lectures twice a week. The teacher, I&#8217;ve heard, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/04\/27\/milas-elenika\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Milas Elenika?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7451,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/20\/filoglossia-learning-greek-as-a-foreign-language\/","url_meta":{"origin":10084,"position":0},"title":"Filoglossia &#8211; Learning Greek as a foreign language","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 20, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Someone pointed out a site of Filoglossia program that helps one learn Greek language. 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