Ellinika A / Greek 1: Method for Learning Greek as a Foreign Language (Book & CD)

Lovely grammar book. I would have appreciated more exercises to practice, like a student/practice book alongside with the grammar. Essential: instructions in English otherwise the whole point of the exercises become purposeless if students don't understand what they have to do (especially if you are learning Greek on your own!). Overall a good reference grammar book.

I like this book because it introduces real spoken Greek and not just formal, correct but slightly unnatural sounding language. Plenty of exercises to help memorise vocabulary and structures! It's 100% in Greek so you'll need a dictionary (Greek - own language) and the book is best used as part of a language course where a teacher explains the grammar.

I relly like this book. A great method to learn Greek. Here in Hungary we use this as the basic book for learning.

Exactly what I expected and was delivered super fast 👍

I found the opening chapters a bit boring, with the endless sequence of nationality names, but of course I understand this is essential in a text addressed to an international audience. Then the book progresses very rapidly indeed, and after a few chapters I found it was already doing things I'd found elsewhere after five months on an online course ! So it definitely becomes challenging and it makes you work hard, but the conversations and illustrations are all very relevant to modern life in Greece, which makes it fun.The book is entirely in Greek, which means that there are no written grammatical explanations (because the learners wouldn't be able to understand them!). So learners have to examine the charts of grammatical forms that are incorporated into the text (verb forms, pronouns etc.), and interpret them so as to apply them to complete the exercises. Learners who have no background in grammar at all might struggle a bit.I have a bit of a problem with the corrections of the exercises, available at the back of the book. Sometimes it seems to me they are hard to match up with the exercises in the chapters. But perhaps that's because I don't quite understand all the words (yet!).Overall, this is a good book, with two useful CD's included as well, for listening practice. One possible defect: it's a bit massive and heavy - so it's fine for schoolchildren - it won't get torn if it's stuffed roughly into a schoolbag - but not so good for adults who might want to do some quick practice on a bus, or take it on a low-cost flight with rigorous weight limits!

Lots of clever ideas and entertaining ways of engaging with Greek language learners.

Recommended by Greek tutor and I agree. Good book, recordings very helpful