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5: Big Fat Greek Worms: Discovering the Ingenious Language with Dimitris
Manage episode 345107896 series 3398475
In this episode we celebrate a new milestone: the Easy Greek YouTube channel has reached 50k subscribers! We invited Dimitris to learn a little bit more about his passions but also his family, heritage and languages.
We also discussed the history of the Greek language and its influences on today's Europe and why his students decided to learn the language of mythology and philosophy.
Finally, Dimitris shares his approach to raising multilingual children and his language-learning tips for grown-ups.
Show Notes
Little Kook, Athens (Tripadvisor)
Strange Brew, Athens (Tripadvisor)
Saganaki (Wikipedia)
History of Greek (Wikipedia)
Book Review (The Guardian)
Easy Greek Podcast 94: Οι κατηγορίες των Easy Greekers
Big Fat Greek Wedding, "Give my any word" scene with Mr Portokalos
The word for orange (fruit) in many languages, map (Maps on the Web)
In Greek mythology, apricots were believed to be "golden apples" (Jogobella)
Greece-Italy relations (Wikipedia)
"Una faccia, una razza" (Greek Reporter)
One person, one language (Wikipedia)
23 episodes
Manage episode 345107896 series 3398475
In this episode we celebrate a new milestone: the Easy Greek YouTube channel has reached 50k subscribers! We invited Dimitris to learn a little bit more about his passions but also his family, heritage and languages.
We also discussed the history of the Greek language and its influences on today's Europe and why his students decided to learn the language of mythology and philosophy.
Finally, Dimitris shares his approach to raising multilingual children and his language-learning tips for grown-ups.
Show Notes
Little Kook, Athens (Tripadvisor)
Strange Brew, Athens (Tripadvisor)
Saganaki (Wikipedia)
History of Greek (Wikipedia)
Book Review (The Guardian)
Easy Greek Podcast 94: Οι κατηγορίες των Easy Greekers
Big Fat Greek Wedding, "Give my any word" scene with Mr Portokalos
The word for orange (fruit) in many languages, map (Maps on the Web)
In Greek mythology, apricots were believed to be "golden apples" (Jogobella)
Greece-Italy relations (Wikipedia)
"Una faccia, una razza" (Greek Reporter)
One person, one language (Wikipedia)
23 episodes
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