Tim & Nicky
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Conference season in Greece
The upcoming IFES Greece conference. Continue reading
One hundred words
I just read an interesting article on the BBC about speaking English with just one hundred words. Apparently, Fabio Capello (the manager of the England national football team and an Italian) uses just one hundred different words to communicate tactics and strategy to his players. This made me think. Firstly, was this the real reason … Continue reading
First fully Greek conversation and the first ΣΧΕΦ meeting… and one word I’ll never use again.
Friday 15th October 2010 will go down in history as being the day that I successfully completed my first fully Greek (i.e. no resorting to English from start to finish) conversation (i.e. talking about interesting stuff!) I’m really enjoying learning the language at the moment, and my confidence has really increased since lessons began a … Continue reading
Can you can help me?
I recently discovered that a great way of learning Greek is by watching movies with the Greek subtitles on… So, about once a week I’m trying to get a few friends over to my flat so we can watch a movie with subtitles. So far we’ve watched Hook, Gladiator and 300. However, I don’t really … Continue reading
School trip to Delphi
On Saturday, I went for a day trip to Delphi with my class. Delphi is the site of the ancient Greek Oracle and a temple complex to Apollos and Dionosis. It’s in the mountains and a three hour coach journey away from Athens. Apart from being a great opportunity to get out of the City … Continue reading
