Alright, so this blog seems dead. I think you do know that. I do kind of feel bad about this because this is only of the few sites that I run online. But oh well, I guess I should have found a better niche. This blog simply ran out of ideas.
The question, though: are there things you would like to hear about? If so, tell in the comments.
Finally:
What does IONA mean?
IONA means Islands of the North Atlantic.

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I’m just going to leave this here so you can see how the alphabet has changed:

Click on the image to see the full and live version.

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Here are somethings that you might not have known about the months of the year and how language can help you decipher it.

The first month used to be March. This can be seen from months like September where sept stands for the Latin seven, October where oct is the root for eight or December where dec is the root for ten (in Portuguese ten is dez).

Since March was the first month, the last one was February. That explains why it …

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I’m bored, that’s why.

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Well, I had a Greek 6 month challenge under my belt: I intended to study three months at home, and then three months in Greece. I also intended to achieve level B2, which would mean I could understand the main ideas of complex texts, interact quite fluently with native speakers and express myself fluently after these six months which seemed quite reasonable at that time. Time’s up and I give you some of my recollections of how this whole challenge …

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I have just come back from my stay in Greece where I tried to learn Greek (more on the results of that in my next post) and that experience got me thinking about: those of you who go to foreign countries and try to learn the local language will know that learning it will not come by itself: you actually have to put a lot of work in; and even then sometimes it’s very hard. In this day and age of English as the international language, speaking opportunities are scarce and even then conversations end prematurely due to your low level of the language or you just don’t seem to be able to discuss difficult topics. At the end of the day, you end up staying in the country and not learning much if any of the local language. That’s where I got an idea.

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I just had this random idea reading a site on the Internet. Isn’t the best way to learn a language discussing in it? Here’re a few reasons why it might be.

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Just a couple of tips that I think are helpful to learn languages while you are living in the country (like me in Greece). I assume most people should know them but I get surprised by how many times they don’t. Here we go.

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While learning Greek, I have discovered a number of resources along the way. I will list all the free resources here so that you can use them if you are learning Modern Greek. They will help you achieve the task. Here they are.

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I’m over 50 days already in Greece and I have gotten a little bit used to the Greek language. I’m nowhere near good so this might contain errors but I thought I would give you all a small representation of the Greek language and what you would experience if you were around to learn it. I’m going to write mostly in Roman letters so that everybody can read it and keep it simple. Here goes…

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