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Εδώ είναι δώδεκα και μισή ακριβώς :)

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Στεφανία

Team GreekPod101.com

Γεια σου ,

εδώ είναι δέκα παρά τέταρτο.

Γεια χαρά,

Ράλιτζα

Γεια σου Ντέιλ,

ελπίζω να σε δω σύντομα λοιπόν στο Premium Plus πρόγραμμα!

Γεια χαρά,

Στεφανία

Team GreekPod101.com

Τέλεια! -Dale

Hi Dale,

I'm really honoured to receive such positive feedback from you! Thank you! It really motivates me to keep doing what I do 😄

If you really want to go for it, you can upgrade and see if you will get assigned to me (I'm also a P+ tutor). If not, you can always email the company (contactus@greekpod101.com) and request to be assigned to me.

As for the types of questions you are describing, that's what the P+ service is for. The good thing is that for longer explanations, audio messages can be exchanged so communication is easier.

I would be very happy to have you as my student! The choice is yours 😉

Kind regards,

Stefania

Team GreekPod101.com

Hello again, Stephania,

On a slightly different issue, currently I'm a Premium member only, and I've been thinking of upgrading to Premium Plus.

The company said I would be assigned a tutor with whom I could correspond. That sounds fine to me, but you probably realize that the kinds of questions I have tend to get into pretty detailed matters of grammar and syntax. You've been able to field them admirably because you're so well trained in Ancient Greek, as well as being a native speaker of Modern Greek.

What I'm getting at is that I'm not sure that just any native speaker would be a right fit for me at the Premium Plus level. Now if if YOU'RE the Greek Pod 101 tutor, I'd have no hesitations at all about upgrading.

What's your sense of this?

Dale

Hi Dale,

It's fascinating to see how languages, their dialects, and writing systems evolve overtime!

Cheers,

Stefania

Team GreekPod101.com

Hello Stephania,

Thanks so much for the very interesting reply. Cypriot Greek has always been a special case -- even the Greeks of the 5th century thought their Greek was different.

70 years ago, when scholars finally cracked Linear B and proved it was an early form of Greek, they were using the remains of ancient Cypriot Greek for clues.

Dale

Hi, Dale,

No need to say sorry. I'm here to answer questions!

Yes, it should be "Τότε πάω για καφέ και μετά στον φίλο μου τον Βασίλη".

You can say it any way you want it, either pronouncing the final ν or not. It won't make a difference to the next door Greek. In fact, people won't even pay attention to that. However, if you are talking to an actor, a singer, or a TV news presenter (these are people that are trained to have proper pronunciation) they might notice you articulate words more and therefore sound more well-spoken.

So what happened to those ancient endings? Aha! Great question!

Unfortunately, the final ν tends to get lost as the centuries pass by so now, in modern Greek, it's almost a relic. However, there are other Greek dialects, such as the Cypriot one, that still have preserved some of the tendencies of ancient Greek because they are more tied to it, including the final ν. If you hear Cypriot Greek, even if you don't understand much, you will notice many words end in ν making the speech sound very nasalized.

Here's an example of how a Greek Cypriot speaks, taken from a Greek TV reality show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAdeXhx6HII

All the best,

Stefania

Team GreekPod101.com

Hello again, Stephania,

Thanks you for your answer to my question about the final n of the masculine accusative singular in the other lesson.

Just to make sure I have it right, would

"Τότε πάω για καφέ και μετά στο φίλο μου το Βασίλη

be Τότε πάω για καφέ και μετά στον φίλο μου τον Βασίλη in writing?

If I were to say it that way to a native speaker, would it carry a feeling of precision, or maybe even erudition?

Sorry to be so nit-picky, but I'm really interested in what happened to the ancient case endings!

Thanks as always,

Dale