Modern Greeks Try to Read Ancient Greek | Easy Greek 56

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Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews and expose the street culture of participating partner countries abroad. Episodes are produced in local languages and contain subtitles in both the original language as well as in English.

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Production: Dimitris Hall
Camera: Fanis Sotiriou
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* "ask the audience" (in Greek «η βοήθεια του κοινού»): a reference to the TV show "Who wants to be a millionaire"

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[Jerry]

Next video: ancient Greeks reading modern Greek?

[AngeloArsani]

Greek sounds so comforting and delicious, I really want to learn it

[webcelt]

They're doing better with ancient Greek than an English speaker would do with old English.

[dorianphilotheates]

From an archaeologist and classical philologist: Not bad, my compatriots, not bad at all...

[richardsilva]

Greek sound like something I should understand, but can't. The cadence is comforting, melodious.
I'm Brazilian with a intermediate Spanish, for the record.

[Pygmygerbil]

Greek is like a long poem. Ancient, beautiful, and deep etched in history.
Total respect and awe for the language of Agamemnon and Helen.

[neileyre]

Greek is the most beautiful language in the world; both the sounds and the forms of the letters.

[mao]

Lots of love to the Greek people from Syria, stay safe guys.

[dianeposselius]

Bravo! This has brought tears to my eyes, they all did so well! I can’t imagine that a native English speaker would have been able to manage a literary text (such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne) nearly as well as these folks have done. Thank you for strengthening my faith in the basic consistency and unity of the Greek language.

[alogutz]

Love for Greece from Honduras! Been dreaming of visiting Greece since the very first time I read the universal history by Asimov, the iliad and the odyssey by Homer.

[warrior]

Μελετούσα Ελληνικά, είμαι Βραζιλιάνος και θέλω να μιλάω Ελληνιλά, αγαπώ Ελληνικά

[scottscott]

Wow, this was really interesting. I loved every minute of this. The level of education among Greeks appears to be very high. Your guests are very intelligent, and knew about dative, and gender of nouns of the ancient language. The lady with the black jacket and reddish scarf is very knowledgeable, and understands her ancient text very well. English has borrowed so many words from Greek. I grew up learning Latin and Greek at school in England. Both those languages helped me understand English better. It makes me want to pick up my ancient Greek text books again.

[secstufe]

Wow, that's so interesting! As a German native speaker, I vividly remember when we had to learn Old High German at school... struggling so hard to make any sense of it at all :-D this couldn't be our own language, could it!! :-)
And we did even learn Ancient Greek. (I remember nearly nothing, though)
But our pronunciation of the Ancient Greek - oh well, it might be something to be ashamed of.... ;-)

[stlev]

Oh wow. You read my mind. For quite a while I have wondered how Greeks would pronounce ancient texts. This was quite interesting. And that one lady really knew her stuff!!! Your videos are always fascinating.

[gpan]

I learned Greek in Canada mostly from my parents. I've noticed that there are quite a few words used in villages that correspond to ancient Greek, but are not the usual word used in standard modern Greek.

[claudioristagno]

Πολυ ωραια. Εγω εμαθα αρχαια ελληνικα στο σκολειο πεντε χρονια στην Ιταλια. Αγαπουσα αρχαια ελληνικα...και αυτο τωρα μου βοητα πολυ με τη μαθηση νεων ελληνικων. Ακομα θυμαμαι πολλες λεξεις...αλλα χωρις λεξιλογιο θα δεν μπορουσα να το μεταφραζω στα ιταλικα

[Mthundrd]

Hello from Brazil.
Greek sounds a little bit like an iberian language like portuguese and spanish. It sounds familiar to my ear.

[nkreceptor]

greeting to greeks....
im persian and we can read and undrestand middle persian like shahname which has been written 1 thusand yrs ago....

[evancolby]

Εγώ σπουδάζω αρχαία ελληνικά στο πανεπιστήμιό μου και θα ήθελα να πω ότι οι άνθρωποι στο βίντεο τα πήγανε πάρα πολύ καλά - τα κείμενα δεν ήτανε καθόλου εύκολα!

[socratespothitos]

Very close to modern Greek I understand a lot of it