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- By lorraine Flag: Date 2010-07-29 04:51
Γεια σασ.  Ειμαι Λορραιν.  Μένω στο Εδιμβούργο. Μαθαίνω ελληνικά γιατί η κόρη μου μένει σε Κύπρος. 

Great to find you all!

Is there anyone else learning Greek from Edinburgh?
Parent By Ο Ουαλλός Flag: wales Date 2010-07-29 17:32 Edited 2010-08-02 18:15
καλώς ήρθες Λοραίν,

                                     δυστυχώς δεν είμαι ούτε απ' το Edinbrough, ούτε καν απ' τη Σκωτία. Σ' ε'υχομαι κάθε επιτυχία με τις σπουδές σου. Ελπίζω ότι οπιοδήποτε προβλήμα έχεις θα βρεις τη λύση εδώ.

                                     Euryn
είμαστε εδώ για να βοηθά ο ένας τον άλλον
Parent - By Simon Flag: wales Date 2010-07-31 20:55
Γειάσου, και καλώς ήρθες..

Ζω στην Ουαλλία, και δεν είμαι σίγουρος αν υπάρχει κανένα μέλος της ιστοσελίδας αυτής (εκτός απ' εσένα) που κατάγεται απ' τη Σκωτία.  Λοιπόν, πώς μαθαίνεις τη γλώσσα;  Σε μια τάξη, ή στο σπίτι;

Σ.
Έτσι είναι η ζωή!
Parent - By lorraine Flag: Date 2010-08-01 04:39
I've been learning it from the Livemocha website and I've also got two textbooks - Teach Yourself  and the Collins CD Pack.  I'm actually out in Cyprus just now visiting my daughter who lives here, so there is Greek all around but I'll be back in Scotland on Tuesday and just a bit concerned that it will go by the wayside.
Parent - By Simon Flag: wales Date 2010-08-02 21:28 Edited 2010-08-02 21:31
I have tried to reply, but I cannot get the system to show more than two lines of what I've written.  Gumboot!  Something's not right here!!!  I've re-done my reply and will P.M. it to you

S
Έτσι είναι η ζωή!
Parent - By Simon Flag: wales Date 2010-08-02 21:35
I don't think that's worked either - my sent items shows the same problem - you have about one and a half lines of a message...

Gumbooooot!!!! - where are you!!!!!

S
Έτσι είναι η ζωή!
Parent - By gumboot Flag: gb Date 2010-08-02 21:39 Edited 2010-08-02 21:44
This sounds a little bit weird. No more than two lines of reply, you say?

Well that was one line, here's a second.

Let's try a third. Wonder if this will all display correctly?

EDIT: Hmmm, can't seem to reproduce the problem here, I'm afraid!
Parent - By Simon Flag: wales Date 2010-08-04 21:32
Well, I suppose it might have been a temporary glitch, so I'll try again.

I would recommend, if you have the time and resources, finding an adult education evening class or something similar.  Learning a language alone is a thankless task - especially in the early days.  I don't know how things work in Scotland, but down here the local education authority runs various classes - when I went I had to sign up in September at a local education centre and it cost about
Έτσι είναι η ζωή!
Parent - By Simon Flag: wales Date 2010-08-04 21:34
There was considerably more than appears in the above post.  Sorry, Gumboot, but something is definitely not right.  I tried to cut and paste the rest into a new post, but it only reproduced one word.

S.
Έτσι είναι η ζωή!
Parent By Renee1717 Flag: us Date 2010-08-05 01:10
Γεια σας Λορραίν!  Καλώς ήρθες στο σάιτ.  Προσπαθώ να χρησιμοποιήσω το Επικοινωνήστε Ελληνικά και εγώ.  Μπορεί να είναι λίγο δύσκολο χωρίς δάσκαλο (το ξέρω καλά :-) ), αλλά είναι καλό.  Καλή τύχη!
I'm now going to write
using a number of lines to see if it gets cut off
with more than four lines like it does with
Simon.
--Renee
Parent - By gumboot Flag: gb Date 2010-08-05 07:22
[The first few paragraphs of the Wikipedia entry for "Modern Greek" - if this doesn't demonstrate that I can post more than a couple of lines, nothing will! ...]

Modern Greek (Greek: Νέα Ελληνικά or Νεοελληνική, "Neo-Hellenic", historically also known as Ρωμαίικα, "Romaic" or "Roman") refers to the varieties of Greek spoken in the modern era. The beginning of the "modern" period of the language is often symbolically assigned to the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, even though that date marks no clear linguistic boundary and many characteristic modern features of the language had been present centuries earlier - from the third century BC to the tenth century AD.[5] During much of this time, the language existed in a situation of diglossia, with regional spoken dialects existing side by side with learned, archaic written forms. Most notably, during much of the 19th and 20th centuries, it was known in the competing varieties of popular Demotic and learned Katharevousa. Today, Standard Modern Greek, based on Demotic, is the official language of both Greece and Cyprus. Greek is spoken today by approximately 12-15 million people, mainly in Greece and Cyprus, but also by minority and immigrant communities in many other countries.

Greek forms an independent branch of the Indo-European languages. Within Greek, all surviving forms of Modern Greek, except the Tsakonian dialect, are descendants of the common supra-regional (Koine) as it was spoken in late antiquity. As such, they can ultimately be classified as descendants of Attic, the dialect spoken in and around Athens in the classical era. Tsakonian, an isolated dialect spoken today by a dwindling community in the Peloponese, is a descendant of the ancient Doric dialect. Some other dialects have preserved elements of various ancient non-Attic dialects, but Attic Koine is nevertheless regarded by most scholars as the principal source of all of them.

Modern Greek is spoken by about 12 million people mainly in Greece and Cyprus. There are also traditional Greek-speaking settlements in the neighboring countries Albania, Bulgaria and Turkey, as well as in several countries in the Black Sea area (Ukraine, Russia, Georgia, Armenia) and around the Mediterranean Sea (Southern Italy, Egypt). The language is also spoken by emigrant communities in many countries in Western Europe, North America, Australia, as well as in Argentina, Brazil and others. Countries with notable number of speakers of Greek as a foreign language are Serbia, Albania, Bulgaria and Romania.

Greek is the official language of Greece where it is spoken by about 99.5% of the population. It is also, alongside Turkish, the official language of Cyprus. Because of the membership of Greece and Cyprus in the European Union, Greek is one of the 23 official languages of the European Union. Greek is officially recognised as a minority language in parts of Italy, Turkey, Armenia, Ukraine and Albania.
Parent - By Simon Flag: wales Date 2010-08-05 21:26
Congratulations on your length of post!!

S.
Έτσι είναι η ζωή!
Parent - By gumboot Flag: gb Date 2010-08-06 07:17 Edited 2010-08-06 07:21
OK, weird, I've just tried posting something and it cut me off after about half a dozen words.

I wrote Renee's name, with the accent on the second 'e', and the rest of the post was cut off after the accented character.

Wonder if it'll do it again? There should be an accented character on the end of this line :

EDIT - bingo, it might be something to do with character encoding. I'll take a look. I'll also aim at getting the new forum up and running the middle of next week (I'm away for a long weekend before then), and hopefully that won't suffer the same issues.
Parent - By Simon Flag: wales Date 2010-08-07 21:34
Λοιπόν, φαίνεται ότι, τουλάχιστον, δεν είμαι μόνος μου με το πρόβλημα αύτο!

Έχω γράψει τώρα δυο ιδιαίτερα μηνύματα στη Λορέιν που έιναι εντάξει.

Πρέπει να ξαναγίνουμε μέλη της καινούργιας ιστοσελίδας;  Θα χάσουμε όλα τα παλαιά μηνύματα στο φόραμ;

Σ.
Έτσι είναι η ζωή!
Parent By gumboot Flag: gb Date 2010-08-11 11:49
Όχι, δεν πρέπει να ξαναεγγραφείς, και δεν θα χάσουμε τα παλαιά μηνύματα - θα χρησιμοποιούμε μια καινούρια έκδοση του ίδιου λογισμικού.
Parent By Κρις Flag: gb Date 2010-08-15 16:58
Γεια σου Λοραίν. Καλώς ήρθες.
Μακάρι να μπορούσα να σταθώ στων γιγάντων τους ώμους.
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