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Greek Language and People by: David Hardy List Price: £14.99 City Travel Guides Price: £9.69 You Save: £5.30 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD Dewey Decimal Number: 489 EAN: 9780563519775 Format: Audiobook ISBN: 0563519770 Label: BBC (BBC Active) Manufacturer: BBC (BBC Active) Number Of Pages: 2 Publication Date: March 16, 2006 Publisher: BBC (BBC Active) Release Date: March 23, 2006 Studio: BBC (BBC Active) Sales Rank: 93087 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: An ideal introduction to the language and culture of Greece, Greek Language and People is an integrated multi-media course for beginners. As well as teaching the skills necessary to communicate in and understand basic Greek, it provides an accessible introduction to the written language, and enables you to read Greek with ease. Language practice is mixed with fascinating insights into contemporary Greece and traditional Greek customs.Whether learning at home or in a class, Greek Language and People can help you to reach the equivalent level of a first qualification, such as GCSE. Audio
2 x 75 minute CDs Synopsis: An ideal introduction to the language and culture of Greece, Greek Language and People is an integrated multi-media course for beginners. As well as teaching the skills necessary to communicate in and understand basic Greek, it provides an accessible introduction to the written language, and enables you to read Greek with ease. Language practice is mixed with fascinating insights into contemporary Greece and traditional Greek customs.Whether learning at home or in a class, Greek Language and People can help you to reach the equivalent level of a first qualification, such as GCSE. Audio*Conversations and stage-by-stage pronunciation help you improve your listening and speaking skills 2 x 75 minute CDs Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Waste of time and moneyI've been teaching modern Greek for more than 10 years. This course book is not suitable for students who are serious about learning Greek. It's ok for those who, as tourists, want to be able to order a souvlaki in a greek taverna. I would be very suspicious of teachers of modern Greek who make use of this book. Very disappointing. I'd stick with the Communicate in Greek course books instead. Rating: - This is just some exercises -- not a Greek course.Groan! After ordering and receiving this product from Amazon, I discover that it's not a Greek course at all -- it's two CDs of exercises for the course book, sold separately. Nowhere on the Amazon product information page does it say that this is not a Greek course, and even worse, that page is full of reviews of the book, which presumably have ended up on the wrong page altogether. Let me make this clear -- this is two CDs containing exercises for the coursebook, without which, this product is pretty much useless. You cannot use this product on its own. Rating: - So, So..I m sorry to be not that enthusiast or thrilled about that book,but I honestly thought it was a bit a waste of money for any serious Modern Greek learner . Don t get me wrong, the Book is very well printed, nice format, mainly in white and blue colours.. and is nice to look at Now, about its content . It sounds to me much more like a "SOS raft . how to survive in Greece and Cyprus" than a true textbook. Sure, you will learn how to ask for a coffee, book an hotel room, takle a bus to the Acropolis and be able to survive in a Greek speaking surrounding . But, I doubt it very much that you ll be able to get beyond that basic level.This is the kind of book I would take with me on a flight to Greece to quickly try ... Read More: Rating:  - Welcome new editionI have had the old book for a while and was just starting to refresh my knowledge of Greek when I noticed the new edition. The thing that I would add to other reviews is the excellent cross referencing of the exercises to cd tracks. Instead of just having one track per chapter as a lot of other books do - meaning that you have to do a lot of fast forward and rewinding to get to the exercise/dialogue that you want, this has been split down into a large number of tracks, one for each exercise and dialogue. Each exercise in the book then has the track number inside. This is exactly what I was hoping for. This is an excellent book but I would also recommend using "beginner's greek" by Aristarhos Matsukas because this has translitteration ... Read More: Rating: - BLUEI've been learning Greek using the old edition for a while now and yes, the old book was well out of date with references to Drachmas instead of Euros and to film stars that no-one these days will have heard of (well ok, maybe you've heard of TZHN XAKMAN?). The treatment of grammar was also pretty poor. But, the book had a lot of charm and described all the old ways and traditions that have survived in Greece even to the present day. This was backed up by lots of photos of people taking part in the things described in the book - relevant places, religious and family gatherings - basically showing the people in the book's title. This new edition by contrast is bang up-to-date in terms of language and grammar and the visual style ... Read More: |
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