Greek lesson
Friday evening we worked yet more on inflexions with Niko, Lin having stayed up the night before struggling with a detailed chart showing all the variations of 'at' and 'in'. Looking at 'Χούντα στην πλατεία Συντάγματος' - a YouTube clip of mayhem in Syntagma Square he tested us on inflected prepositions.
"Did you see the την? (pointing at 0.03 on the screen) Why?"
Linda "Because πλατεία, plateia, is female"
"Bravo"
We continued working on the different versions of 'in' and 'at' and 'from' checking with our workbook exchanges; doing a little test. As well as our exchanges with Nikos we have been using Κλεάνθης Αρβανιτάκης και Φρόσω Αρβανιτάκη, Επικοινωνήστε Ελληνικά 1 - Kleanthis Arvanitakis and Phroso Arvanitaki, Epikoinoniste Ellinika 1: Communicate in Greek 1, which comes with a CD I've downloaded to my computer for easy playback. Nikos stayed on after the lesson as Lin cooked supper. He introduced me to a blog by Toddler and pointed out how PASOK's logo had been altered to read 'μπατσόκ, ΜΠΑΤΣΟΚ' - in English - 'copper'.
"What do you think is going to happen?" he asked
"I don't know. Tolstoy's best on that question. It's a test of global capitalism? It's kids on the block with slogans? What's later forged - in both senses of the word - into history was, while it went on, fraught with confusion, speculation, incomprehension, contested explanation. Flawed memory and self-justifying egotism will have many commentators claiming prescience. In retrospect. And history never stops being rewritten."
"It will all come out at the post mortem - η νεκροψία" said Niko as he left.
democracystreet.blogspot.com/2011/07/phone-by-bed-woke-me...
Greek lesson
Friday evening we worked yet more on inflexions with Niko, Lin having stayed up the night before struggling with a detailed chart showing all the variations of 'at' and 'in'. Looking at 'Χούντα στην πλατεία Συντάγματος' - a YouTube clip of mayhem in Syntagma Square he tested us on inflected prepositions.
"Did you see the την? (pointing at 0.03 on the screen) Why?"
Linda "Because πλατεία, plateia, is female"
"Bravo"
We continued working on the different versions of 'in' and 'at' and 'from' checking with our workbook exchanges; doing a little test. As well as our exchanges with Nikos we have been using Κλεάνθης Αρβανιτάκης και Φρόσω Αρβανιτάκη, Επικοινωνήστε Ελληνικά 1 - Kleanthis Arvanitakis and Phroso Arvanitaki, Epikoinoniste Ellinika 1: Communicate in Greek 1, which comes with a CD I've downloaded to my computer for easy playback. Nikos stayed on after the lesson as Lin cooked supper. He introduced me to a blog by Toddler and pointed out how PASOK's logo had been altered to read 'μπατσόκ, ΜΠΑΤΣΟΚ' - in English - 'copper'.
"What do you think is going to happen?" he asked
"I don't know. Tolstoy's best on that question. It's a test of global capitalism? It's kids on the block with slogans? What's later forged - in both senses of the word - into history was, while it went on, fraught with confusion, speculation, incomprehension, contested explanation. Flawed memory and self-justifying egotism will have many commentators claiming prescience. In retrospect. And history never stops being rewritten."
"It will all come out at the post mortem - η νεκροψία" said Niko as he left.
democracystreet.blogspot.com/2011/07/phone-by-bed-woke-me...