Learning Greek language has many facets, you do have to consider many things when starting to study Greek. You need to learn and build up a large vocabulary that will help you understand written and spoken Greek, and you need to study Greek grammar and pronunciation rules that will make you speak correct and clear Greek. This is how you can learn Greek if you are a non native speaker:
Change your wrong attitude of Greek grammar. Many Greek language learners think that grammar is the way to speaking fluent Greek, think hold the conception that learning huge amounts of grammar rules will make them sound like native speakers of Greek, but unfortunately this is not true, grammar only helps you understand the structure of the language, but Greek fluency is attained by exposing yourself to huge amounts of input.
Listen to simple and easy Greek that you do understand: the general rule of learning speaking Greek language easily and fluently is listening to easy Greek, I mean by that, listening to audio content that you can understand. You need to understand at least 70 percent.
Speak Greek daily. Speak and Speak. Practice! This step very crucial in learning Greek This step goes deep down to your inner confidence. You've got to learn to overcome the shyness and the voice inside your head that keeps telling you: "You'll just make a fool of yourself!" . If you can't overcome this, then you won't be able to learn Greek. Remember: Greek is a language, a form of communication meant to be practiced together with other people by speaking.
Learn Greek vocabulary by heart. Learning Vocabulary by heart means you should stop cramming your head with the translation of Greek words in your native language. No matter how many Greek words you memorize everyday - 50, 100, 200! - they're all useless if you don't know what type of word you're learning, how to use it in a sentence etc. ... Non-native speakers of Greek are known for mechanically memorizing a lot of information. But in terms of the long-term goals of Greek-learning, it isn't so much the quantity that counts, only the quality.
Be realistic about learning Greek grammar .Eventually, you'll have to confess that some expressions and parts of Greek don't have the perfect grammar explanation that you are looking for, the perfect example is idioms. Learn Greek as it is. Of course you should try your best to learn Greek Grammar, but keep in mind that grammar doesn't answer everything. In those cases when Grammar doesn't work, start repeating the sentence and expression. soon you'll understand it and you won’t really require a grammar explanation to use it.
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