CDROM
by George Balanis PhD, MBA
and Toula Balanis AA
Anotek, Inc.
BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE,
ADVANCED GREEK LANGUAGE
COURSE IN CDROM
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Read and Speak Greek
CDROM by George Balanis PhD, MBA and Toula Balanis AA Anotek, Inc. BEGINNER, INTERMEDIATE,
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"I never knew it would be
so fun and easy to learn Greek"
If you like having your Greek teacher at home anytime
you want, our CDROM Greek course is for you. Learn
the COMPLETE GREEK LANGUAGE with our exciting WINDOWS (WIN98/95 or WIN3.11)
multimedia CDROM. Learn Pronunciation,
Reading,
Vocabulary
(about 3000 words, phrases, and sentences), Grammar
and Sentence Generation from an interactive
multimedia course that teaches the material taught in all 6 years of Greek
school and uses hundreds of full color custom-made pictures, exciting "homework"
exercises, male and female human voice pronunciation, phonetics and phonetic
rules, multicolor text that shows different parts of verbs and nouns, and
illustrated printouts. Developed by George (PhD, MBA) and Toula (AA)
Balanis using pioneering Rapid Language Acquisition Techniques to make
learning fast, fun and easy. (Soon CDROMs for English/from Greek, Classical
Greek, Bible Greek)
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Read and Speak Greek Course Description
A unique creative course that teaches the complete Greek language (Pronunciation, Reading, Vocabulary, Grammar and Sentence Generation). Exciting exercises, color pictures, human voice sound, executive summaries, full-color illustrated printouts, and multicolor text are used to make Grammar fun to learn and easy to remember. Hundreds of custom-made color pictures provide visual clarity to Greek words and Greek sentences, and you can click to hear their pronunciation repeatedly. About 300 Lessons including 4500 exercises. Many dialogs are also provided. Each lesson (exercises only) averages 15 minutes to complete. Adults may spend another 15 minutes per lesson to read the Grammar rules.
Level 1 - Emphasis on Pronunciation,
Reading and Vocabulary - about 50 lessons.
Alphabet
(Teaches
the alphabet letters, their names and their sounds)
Letters, Letter Names and their Sounds.
Phonetics
(Teaches
the basic sounds and how to pronounce letters and letter combinations)
All letter combinations and (a) their pronunciation,
(b) their phonetic rules and (c) example words. Example words are
broken into syllables, each syllable can be heard individually and the
individual syllable sounds are slowly fused together to make the word pronunciation.
Reading
and Vocabulary (Teaches vocabulary, reading,
pronunciation and how to relate text to its pronunciation)
There are 46 lessons and each lesson focuses on 12 words
(nouns with their articles, verbs, phrases or sentences). Each word
has its color picture, its Greek pronunciation, its Greek text, and its
English translation. Each lesson has 5 exercises. The exercise
score is increased if the response is correct with the first try.
Exercise 1 tests and teaches
sound comprehension.
You click a microphone to hear a lesson word. You
select the corresponding picture from the 12 available pictures.
Exercise 2 tests and teaches
sound discrimination.
You click a microphone to hear a lesson word. You
select the corresponding Greek text from the 12 available texts.
Exercise 3 tests and teaches
reading comprehension.
You click the Greek text for a lesson word. You
select the corresponding picture from the 12 available pictures.
Exercise 4 tests and teaches
introductory understanding of gender.
You click a lesson word where the article is missing.
You select the appropriate choice from the list of definite/indefinite
articles.
Exercise 5 practices handwriting.
You print out the lesson words and their color pictures.
You practice handwriting the words.
Level 2 - Emphasis on the Structure
of the Language, Grammar and Sentence Generation - about 220 lessons.
Accent
and punctuation (Teaches the marks of the
Greek language)
This section explains the placement of the accent on
small and upper case letters, the movement of the accent and the use of
separators(diaeresis). In addition, the remaining marks of the Greek
language are noted and their usage is explained. In this and the
remaining sections, Greek sentences have a color picture, an English translation
and you can click to hear their sound.
Structure
of the Language (Summary of how Greek differs
from English)
Thoroughly illustrated explanation of the major differences
between Greek and English, such as gender (Greek language has masculine
=> m., feminine => f. and neuter => n.) for nouns and words related to
nouns (adjectives, articles and pronouns) and verb endings (Greek verbs
have endings that shows the person that does the verb action). Many
explanatory Greek sentences are provided. Testing is done with exercises
6 and 7.
Exercise 6 tests and teaches
understanding of Greek Grammar
Each exercise is about 6 sentences that appeared in the
related course material. Each sentence has its picture, its English
translation and its Greek text but a key word is missing. You select
the missing word from a list of Greek words. A correct first-try
selection increases the score, completes the sentence and pronounces the
sentence. There are about 170 exercises of this type.
Exercise 7 tests and teaches
Sentence Generation
Each exercise is about 6 sentences that appeared in the
related course material. Each sentence has its picture, its English
translation and a palette of scrambled words. You select palette
words to put them on the line in order to make the Greek sentence that
has the displayed English translation. Correct generation of the sentence
increases the score and pronounces the sentence. There are about
60 exercises of this type.
Parts
of Speech (Teaches the parts of speech
and gives examples of their use in making sentences)
Thoroughly illustrated explanation of each of the Parts
of Speech including the verb conjugation and noun declination patterns.
Each part of speech is defined, examples are provided and rules are explained.
Also, many explanatory Greek sentences are given. The sentences have a
color picture and you can click to hear their sound. Testing is done
with exercises 6 and 7.
| articles | * declination of ο
(= the/m.), η
(= the/f.), το
(= the/n.), ένας
(= a/m.), μία
(= a/f.), ένα
(=
a/n.)
* at, in, to together with the definite article (possessive/objective cases) στου/στον, στης/στην, στου/στο * rules on final ν |
| nouns | noun groupings and declination patterns with examples
* Masculine Singular/Plural Endings (-ας/-ες, -ας/-αδες, -ης/-ες, --ης/-ηδες, -ος/-οι) * Feminine Singular/Plural Endings(-α/-ες, -α/-αδες, -η/-ες, -η/-εις, -ου/-ουδες) * Neuter Singular/Plural Endings(-ο/-α, -ι/-ια, -ος/-η, -μα/-ματα, -μο/-ματα) * days, months, seasons, names, relatives, professions, numbers |
| adjectives | gender rules, adjective examples and sentences/phrases,
declinationpatterns with examples
m./f./n. έξυπνος, έξυπνη, έξυπνο (= smart / m., f., n.) m./f./n. παχύς, παχιά, παχύ (= fat / m., f., n.) m./f./n. πεισματάρης, πεισματάρα, πεισματάρικο (= stubborn / m., f., n.) |
| pronouns | personal pronouns and their declination, demonstrative and possessive pronouns, example sentences |
| conjunctions | conjunctions and illustrated sentences |
| adverbs | adverbs adverbs and illustrated sentences |
| verbs | * voices, moods and tenses (definition, comparison with
English and construction)
* conjugation categories, Present Tense, Past Tense, Past Progressive Tense, Future Tense, Future Progressive Tense, Present Perfect Tense, Past Perfect Tense, Future Perfect Tense * conjugation example verbs: κρύβω (= I hide), αγαπώ (= I love), οδηγώ (= I drive), λέω (= I say), κρύβομαι (= I am hiding), αγαπιέμαι (= I am loved), κοιμούμαι (= I sleep, I am sleeping), λέγομαι (= I am called, my name is), έρχομαι (= I come, I am coming) * focus verbs and illustrated sentences showing use of conjugation είμαι (= I am), ήμουν (= I was), γράφω (= I write), πηγαίνω/πάω (= I go), κάνω (= I do), έχω (= I have), έρχομαι (= I come), βλέπω (= I see), θέλω (= I want) * list of verbs and illustrated sentences * summary of conjugation across tenses for selected verbs |
| prepositions | prepositions and illustrated sentences |
| interjections | a couple of interjections |
| participles | adverb and adjective participles and illustrated sentences |
Dialog
(Provides
examples of Greek dialogs)
Illustrated dialogs between children provide examples
of the use of key verbs. One of the dialogs explains the time.
Each sentence has a color picture and you can click to hear its sound.
Additional dialogs cover every day situations, such as (a) getting a taxi,
(b) shopping at the supermarket, (c) visiting the doctor and (d) buying
medicines at the drugstore. Testing is done with exercises 6 and
7.
ΛΕΞΙΛΟΓΙΟ - ΜΑΘΗΜΑ VOCABULARY - LESSON
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| η αγελάδα (= the cow) | το γάλα (= the milk) | η θάλασσα (= the sea) |
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| η καρέκλα (= the chair) | ο ήλιος (= the sun) | η γιαγιά (= the grandmother) |
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| ο παππούς (= the grandfather) | η πεταλούδα (= the butterfly) | το βιβλίο (= the book) |
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| το τραπέζι (= the table) | ο χειμώνας (= the winter) | το ψυγείο (= the refrigerator) |
ΛΕΞΙΛΟΓΙΟ - ΜΑΘΗΜΑ VOCABULARY - LESSON
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| η γάτα (= the cat) | οι γάτες (= the cats) | γελώ (= I laugh) |
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| κλαίω (= I cry) | γράφω (= I write) | το άλογο (= the horse) |
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| τα άλογα (= the horses) | ο σκύλος (= the dog) | οι σκύλοι (= the dogs) |
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| ο κόκκινος ήλιος (= the red sun) | η κόκκινη καρέκλα (= the red chair) | το κόκκινο βιβλίο (= the red book) |
EVOLUTION OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE
A brief history of the evolution of the Greek language
is provided below.
1. Ionic Dialect (1100 BCE -
650 BCE)
Used by Homer, Herodotus, Heraclitus and others.
Spoken around the Cyclades islands, Samos and Icaria
islands, and Asia Minor with center the cities of Ephesus and Miletus.
2. Doric Dialect (900 BCE -
900 AD)
Used by Archimedes.
Spoken by the Spartans and people in Peloponnesus and
Sicily.
3. Attic Dialect (700 BCE -
300 BCE)
Used by Plato, Thucydides, Euripides, Aristophanes, Demosthenes,
Aristotle, Isocrates, and others.
Spoken in the Attic peninsula by Athenians and others.
4. Koine Alexandrian Dialect
(300 BCE - 700 AD)
Used in writing religious works such as the Bible and
works by Plutarch and others.
After the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Greek
language became the international language. This language version
was based primarily on the Attic dialect and unified all the other
dialects. It is called Koine, which in Greek means common, to show
that it is the language spoken by all people.
5. Modern Greek Language (200
BCE - today)
It is based on Koine and has evolved into the language
spoken today in Greece.
The Modern Greek pronunciation is based on the pronunciation
of Koine and is used in many places where Koine, or Classical Greek, text
is pronounced. For example, all religious services pronounce Greek
text with the Modern Greek pronunciation. Classical Greek is pronounced
using either the Modern Greek pronunciation or the Erasmian pronunciation.
In particular, schools in the United States use the Erasmian pronunciation.
Revised: 5 October 2000
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