YOU SPEAK GREEK, YOU JUST DON’T KNOW IT (4TH EDITION)
Εκδότης Ιανός , ISBN 9786185141981
Dear friends,Let me guide you through a wonderful journey into the magic of an exceptional language, the Greek language.In every respect, the Greek language is one of the richest, most accurately structured and logical languages of all times. It is a language where every word has a reason for its existence. There is a direct connection between the `word` and the `meaning` of the word.At the same time it is considered a rather difficult language for a foreigner to comprehend and learn. Thus, one often hears the expression `it`s all Greek to me`.Yet, after a closer look one realizes that one already uses a large number of Greek words.One out of four words in the English language is Greek or of Greek origin!In scientific terminology, for example in botany and zoology, more than 50% of the words or word elements used in Greek!When it comes to medical terminology, more than 60% of the words or word elements used is Greek!The book you are holding is not a scientific lexicon. It is a selection of more than 6.000 Greek words that probably all of you, dear English speaking friends, use quite often in your everyday vocabulary.The intonation or pronunciation may vary a little, but you can see for yourself that you are using words in English which are not just of Greek origin, but in most cases are exactly the same!In other words, you speak Greek, you just don`t know it.Let`s start with the `Alphabet`. But you already know this word, don`t you? It is the Greek word `Alphavita` which describes the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, Alpha and Vita.Are you familiar with words like: analysis, angel, atmosphere, automatic, bible, cinematography, democrat, diagram, diploma, echo, ecstasy, ethics, galaxy, grammar, gymnastics, hormone, hypocrite, icon, idiom, kinesis, logistic, lyric, marathon, mechanic, megaphone, monopoly, nausea, neon, oil, Olympics, pathology, phenomenon, philology, phobia, phrase, physics, practical, protein, rhapsody, scene, sphere, sympathy, thesaurus, tra
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Dear friends,Let me guide you through a wonderful journey into the magic of an exceptional language, the Greek language.In every respect, the Greek language is one of the richest, most accurately structured and logical languages of all times. It is a language where every word has a reason for its existence. There is a direct connection between the `word` and the `meaning` of the word.At the same time it is considered a rather difficult language for a foreigner to comprehend and learn. Thus, one often hears the expression `it`s all Greek to me`.Yet, after a closer look one realizes that one already uses a large number of Greek words.One out of four words in the English language is Greek or of Greek origin!In scientific terminology, for example in botany and zoology, more than 50% of the words or word elements used in Greek!When it comes to medical terminology, more than 60% of the words or word elements used is Greek!The book you are holding is not a scientific lexicon. It is a selection of more than 6.000 Greek words that probably all of you, dear English speaking friends, use quite often in your everyday vocabulary.The intonation or pronunciation may vary a little, but you can see for yourself that you are using words in English which are not just of Greek origin, but in most cases are exactly the same!In other words, you speak Greek, you just don`t know it.Let`s start with the `Alphabet`. But you already know this word, don`t you? It is the Greek word `Alphavita` which describes the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, Alpha and Vita.Are you familiar with words like: analysis, angel, atmosphere, automatic, bible, cinematography, democrat, diagram, diploma, echo, ecstasy, ethics, galaxy, grammar, gymnastics, hormone, hypocrite, icon, idiom, kinesis, logistic, lyric, marathon, mechanic, megaphone, monopoly, nausea, neon, oil, Olympics, pathology, phenomenon, philology, phobia, phrase, physics, practical, protein, rhapsody, scene, sphere, sympathy, thesaurus, tra
Πληροφορίες προϊόντος
- Συγγραφέας Στεφανίδου, Άννα
- Eκδότης Ιανός
- ISBN 9786185141981
- Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 010200064556
- Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2021
- Σελίδες 320
- Διαστάσεις 12χ16
- Βάρος 310 gr
