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Beginner's Greek by Elizabeth Uhlig

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Pub. Date: October 2003
Publisher: Hippocrene Books, Inc.
Format: Paperback, 406pp
Sales Rank: 273,155

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Beginner's Greek is a twelve-lesson course for students who wish to read, write, and speak modern Greek. Logically laid ou"t chapters build upon one another and allow the student to gain confidence and mastery over the language. Each chapter includes a dialogue with translation, vocabulary, grammar lessons, exercises, and an essay designed to give the reader insight into Greek language and culture.

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Table of Contents

	Table of Abbreviations	xiii
	Introduction	xv
	Why Learn Greek?	xv
	The Greek Alphabet	xvii
Lesson 11
	Placement of Accents	2
	Some Vowel Combinations and How to Pronounce Them	4
	Consonant Combinations and How to Pronounce Them	5
	Dialogue	6
	Vocabulary	8
	Useful Expressions and Compound Words	9
	Grammatical Notes	10
	Formal and Informal Speech	10
	Gender	10
	Cultural Tip: Greek Expressions of Greeting	11
Lesson 213
	Dialogue	14
	Two Grammatical Points	16
	Vocabulary	17
	Small but Important Words for Sentence Building	18
	Useful Expressions and Compound Words	19
	Grammatical Notes and Exercises	20
	Gender, Definite and Indefinite Articles
	How to Form the Plural	28
	Use of the Definite Article	31
	A Note on the Indefinite Article	32
	Personal Pronouns and the First Verb You'll Need	32
	The Words "it" and "they"	33
	Cultural Tip: Greek Drama	36
Lesson 339
	Dialogue	40
	Vocabulary	42
	Small but Important Words for Sentence Building	43
	Useful Expressions and Compound Words	44
	Grammatical Notes and Exercises	45
	Negating a Sentence	45
	Verbs: The Present Tense	45
	The Verbs You Know So Far	48
	Interrogative Sentences	50
	Cultural Tip: The Delights of Greek Food	55
Lesson 457
	Dialogue	58
	Vocabulary	60
	Small but Important Words for Sentence Building	61
	Useful Expressions and Compound Words	62
	Grammatical Notes and Exercises	63
	Two Important Words: [characters not reproducible] and [characters not reproducible]	63
	The Accusative Case	63
	The Accusative Case with Prepositions	70
	Summary of Changes--Nominative to Accusative Case	72
	The Accusative Case with Declined Words	73
	Cultural Tip: Greek Folk Dancing	76
Lesson 579
	Dialogue	80
	Vocabulary	82
	Small but Important Words for Sentence Building	83
	Useful Expressions and Compound Words	84
	Grammatical Notes and Exercises	85
	The Future Tense	85
	A Special Case: when, if, as soon as	89
	The Continuous Future	90
	Helping verbs: to want to, to have to (must)	91
	Two Important Verbs	96
	Cultural Tip: The Plaka	97
Lesson 699
	Dialogue	100
	Vocabulary	102
	Small but Important Word for Sentence Building	103
	Useful Expressions and Compound Words	104
	Grammatical Notes and Exercises	105
	The Simple Past	105
	Four Important Words: [characters not reproducible]	111
	Demonstrative Articles and Pronouns	113
	Cultural Tip: Greek Handicrafts	118
Lesson 7121
	Dialogue	122
	Vocabulary	127
	Small but Important Words for Sentence Building	129
	Useful Expressions and Compound Words	130
	Grammatical Notes and Exercises	131
	New Verbs from this Lesson	131
	A Useful Word: [characters not reproducible]	132
	Possessives	134
	The Accusative Case and Possessives	135
	The Word [characters not reproducible]--own	136
	Talking About Time	138
	Cultural Tip: Rugged and Dramatic Santorini	141
Lesson 8143
	Dialogue	144
	Vocabulary	148
	Small but Important Words for Sentence Building	149
	Useful Expressions and Compound Words	150
	Grammatical Notes and Exercises	151
	Direct Object Pronouns	151
	Contracted Verbs	153
	The Verb [characters not reproducible]	160
	Time-Related Expressions	162
	Days of the Week	164
	Cultural Tip: A Quick Look at Mykonos	165
Lesson 9167
	Dialogue	168
	Vocabulary	172
	Small but Important Words for Sentence Building	173
	Useful Expressions and Compound Words	174
	Grammatical Notes and Exercises	175
	Indirect Object Pronouns	175
	[characters not reproducible]--that which	179
	Borrowed Words	180
	Some New Verbs	180
	Numbers 0-20	182
	Review	184
	Days of the Week and Months of the Year	184
	The Seasons--[characters not reproducible]	184
	Words about the Home	185
	Adjectives	185
	Countries, Nationalities, Languages and Adjectives	190
	Cultural Tip: Reminiscences of Studying Abroad	192
Lesson 10193
	Dialogue	194
	Vocabulary	198
	Small but Important Word for Sentence Building	200
	Useful Expressions and Compound Words	201
	Grammatical Notes and Exercises	202
	Prepositional Pronouns	202
	Reflexive Verbs and the Passive Voice	203
	More Verbs from the Dialogue	209
	The Imperative: "Let's ..."	213
	Review of Adjectives: Useful Adjectives and Their Opposites	213
	Numbers 20-100	215
	Cultural Tip: A Drive Down the Coast	216
Lesson 11217
	Dialogue	218
	Vocabulary	224
	Small but Important Words for Sentence Building	226
	Useful Expressions and Compound Words	227
	Grammatical Notes and Exercises	228
	Verbs from the Dialogue	228
	New Reflexive Verbs	231
	A Useful Word: [characters not reproducible]	236
	The Genitive Case	236
	The Plura	247
	A New Preposition: [characters not reproducible]--between	249
	Expressing Age with the Genitive Case	250
	Relative Pronouns: Which and Whom	250
	Whose	252
	Negative Expressions	253
	Numbers 100-1000	257
	Cultural Tip: An Important Artistic Contribution	258
Lesson 12261
	Dialogue	262
	Vocabulary	266
	Small but Important Words for Sentence Building	267
	Useful Expressions and Compound Words	268
	Grammatical Notes and Exercises	269
	New Verbs from the Dialogue	269
	A Useful Little Word: [characters not reproducible], don't, not	273
	Expressing Dates	274
	Telling Time	275
	Adverbs	277
	Prepositions	278
	Comparisons	280
	Cultural Tip: Good Friends Everywhere	284
	Appendices	285
Appendix 1	Ordinal Numbers	286
Appendix 2	The Weather	288
Appendix 3	Expressing Directions	290
Appendix 4	In the Neighborhood and City	291
Appendix 5	Clothing, Accessories and Colors	292
Appendix 6	Eating and Drinking	294
Appendix 7	Titles and Miscellaneous Useful Expressions	296
	Key to Exercises	299
	Greek-English Glossary	359
	English-Greek Glossary	377
	Glossary of Compound Words and Expressions: Greek-English	397
	Glossary of Compound Words and Expressions: English-Greek	401

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