A Manual of Modern Greek, I: For University Students: Elementary to Intermediate

By Anne Farmakides

Book Overview

Developed by Anne Farmakides, associate professor of classics and director of the Modern Greek Studies program at McGill University, this series, which keeps in view the whole spectrum of the Greek language, uses a combined synchronic/diachronic approach leading to proficiency in spoken and literary demotic as well as simple purist Greek.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300030193
• ISBN13: 9780300030198
• Release Date: September 1983
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Textbook

The wonderful book is used as text at the University of California Berkeley and has been hugely helpful in understanding and learning Greek.

Never spoken greek before, but now I can...

As a native english and french speaker, learning greek has been a daunting task, until now. With eight months until my planned trip to Greece, I'm finding that with this excellent book, I'm learning proper pronounciations, grammer, and accentation. This book is far better than any phrase book, as it teaches you to think on your feet, not just recite from a page.

Solid Manual on Modern Greek

This book was publsihed some twenty years ago, as a text at McGill U in Montreal. It contains the essence of the slightly purist demotic Greek: the grammar, the sentence structure, the vocabulary and so on.I have been using this book to relearn Greek, having been away from it since childhood, and have found it to be a great self-study tool, better than others more recently published.It is not a text for the faint of heart. It is a University level text. It is a no nonsense text that teaches the essentials of modern Greek in 400 or so pages