Tim & Nicky
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Death by Hebrew pronouns
Nicky and I are in the fourth day of the exam week here at Oak Hill. We’ve had one exam on New Testament Greek so far, and we’ve got another one tomorrow on Biblical Hebrew. We didn’t find the Greek one too bad (we’ve got a bit of a head start on the rest of … 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
It’s all Greek to me…
So I thought I’d share some of the more embarassing moments from my adventure in speaking Greek. The first tale of woe: Me: θέλω ένα αυτό. (“I want one of those.” Pointing to a bagel-type-thing at one of the stalls selling bready things in Monastiraki) Lady: Ένα αυτό; (“One of these?” the middle aged lady … Continue reading
Greek placement test or the tale of leaving an exam twenty five minutes in and feeling pleased about it
So at 9am yesterday morning I was walking into an exam almost fifteen months after I’d finished my last one having thought to myself how nice it will be to never have to do another one ever again. As opposed to testing me on my knowledge of high energy astrophysics or something of that ilk, … Continue reading
Happy independence day Greece!
Καλήμερα σας! I was spending the morning learning Greek, when I realised today is Greece’s Independence Day! How exciting! Independence day celebrates the Greek declaration of independence from the Ottoman Empire on March 25th 1821. It signalled the start of their war of independence which they eventually won. Apparently*, it was then that Ελευθερία ή … Continue reading
