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Saturday, January 9, 2021

Greek Words Used In English All The Time - Alphabetically!



Flag of Greece.


Greek - English - English derivative word

anti - against - anti-aircraft (gun to shoot down invading aircraft); antibiotic - against living organisms especially bacteria

auto - oneself - autobiography (self life story, your life story, no written by another )

bios - life - biology, study of living things; biographer, person who writes about somebody's life; biographical, writing about somebody's life (as opposed to fiction)

deuteros - second (Deuteronomy - second book of the bible)

di/dis - double, twice, two - dialogue (conversation between two people) 

graphia - writing or drawing (telegraph - far writing, autograph, self writing, signature); autograph book

khronos - time - chronological, in date and time order, Chronical - record of events in time order, books in the bible (called the Old Testament by Christians who added the New Testament about Jesus)

-leg/log/logue - speak/knowledge - biology

metron - measure

mikros - small - microscope (small)

monos - alone or single - monotone, monotonous, monologue (one person speaking on stage)

phone - sound - telephone (far sound)

tele - far - telescope

Theos - God - atheism (without God)


Post being expanded. Other posts on this subject already in travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

You can find free charts of alphabets. The Greek ones are also created by teachers of maths. (The Americans say math.) You can reduced the size on your printer. To get them laminated you would have to spend on a lamination machine.

I am looking for laminated cards for the Greek and Hebrew alphabets. If you are a reader and buyer or customer and know a link, or are a manufactuer or seller, let me know.

Useful Websites About Greek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_and_Greek_words_commonly_used_in_systematic_names

Useful Websites About Languages

https://osxdaily.com/2017/03/22/type-accents-mac-easy/

https://context.reverso.net/translation/windows-mac-app

(Avast sent me a warning about this. My husband told me to ignore that warnings. 'Don't worry. Avast is just trying to sell an upgrade.' Check with your technical adviser.) 


Useful Language learning Websites

duolingo.com

Interlingua
An artificial language using commonly used words from mainly romance languages. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua

Not to be confused with interlingo

MEMRISE
A system which allows you to save your memory aids for each word, and see memory aids from other people.

memrise.com

earworms.com

Bella, 7 languages at the age of 4, shopping on stage on TV in Australian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd9u9N7Z4TU


Greek Flashcards

On Amazon

About twenty or 21 and a bit dollars, for postage might be included as I am an Amazon Prime member. (I need fast delivery as a landlord when a tenant needs a replacemnt part in a hurry, so the cost of prime is tax deductable for that.)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B013ZCZLV2/ref=sspa_dk_detail_1?psc=1&pd_rd_i=B013ZCZLV2&pd_rd_w=wkcQs&content-id=amzn1.sym.84ea1bf1-65a8-4363-b8f5-f0df58cbb686&pf_rd_p=84ea1bf1-65a8-4363-b8f5-f0df58cbb686&pf_rd_r=W8D6QMZM3HZP8CZ4JSRS&pd_rd_wg=Oj20L&pd_rd_r=1be013e5-ee51-4ed7-91e1-96797cf421d9&s=kids&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9kZXRhaWw

Also because I signed up for Coupert, cheaper with a coupon from another supplier for a few hours after logging into offer. 

https://www.coupert.com/prd/6491_500ae8bc527a5a034cd551f19296084d?cc=GBP&cpos=LEFT&domain=amazon.co.uk&lang=en

About the Author

Angela Lansbury is a teacher of English and other languages and gives talks and workshops on language and learning languages. For workshops contact annalondon8@gmail.com

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Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Language learning - the first step - in Italian



First steps to learning a language? Let's take Italian 
 1 Going on holiday in the country 
2 Going to a restaurant 
3 Looking at an Italian film - La Strada - the street 
4 Reading an Italian website 
5 Buying an Italian dictionary 
6 Subscribing to an Italian newspaper - such as .... 
7 Hearing Italian songs 
8 Translating a restaurant name - Tia Teresa (Aunt Teresa); Tia Maria (aunt Maria drink); tia is aunt 

 Today's Italian words, found in English, for example in newspapers or conversation: 

1 aficionado - follower, devotee 
2 piano - adjective (soft or) quiet 
3 forte - strong or loud 
4 la dolce vita - the sweet life 
5 virtuoso - expert 
6 maestro - master 
7 mio / mia - my 
8 tia - aunt 
9 ponte vecchio - old bridge 
10 casa - house 

 Words which sound similar: 
bank - banca 
bar - bar 
beefsteak - bistecca 
beer - birra 
bottle - bottiglia 
cafe - caffe 
centre - centro 
cinema - cinema 
city - citta 
coffee - caffè 
cold - freddo (like freezing) 
costa - cost 
credit card - carta di credito 
data - date 
dessert - dessert 
difficult - difficile excellent - eccellente 
excuse me - scusi 
flask - fiasco (i is elongated to become an l in English) 
fruits - frutti (but frutti del mare is seafood, fruits of the sea) 
good / OK / fine / all right - bene (as in beneficial, benefit), buon 
hotel - hotel 
name - nome 
numero - number 
olive - olive(s) 
order - ordinare 
passport - passaporto 
perfect - perfetto 
pizzeria - pizzeria 
problem - problema 
restaurant - ristorante 
risotto - risotto 
salad - insalata 
speciality - specialità 
taxi - taxi tea - tè 
theatre - teatro train - treno 
 Goodbye - Ciao. See you again soon. 

Useful Resources and Websites
Earworms from Berlitz is in: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek; Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish 

About the Author
 Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, speaker and author, teacher of English for foreigners, and foreign languages. Lessons on Skype available.