Greek: If you want help come and ask

How do you say: "It's all Greek to me"?

Akougonte ola ellinika

the ou part sounds like oo

Sas efharisto

Parakalo!

do you know greek? (...or did you use babelfish etc.)

Nah, I just remember that from one of those "Thank you in many languages" McDonalds tray papers.

What is the difference between "bios" and "zoe"? Do they both translate as "life"?

they mean the... same thing
Greek is a rich language that has many meanings.

βίος (vios-bios):
- Life.
- The duration of life.
+ Biography (βιογραφία) comes from βίος (vios-bios)

ζωή (zoe):
- Life.
- the situation at which a being with organs can eat, be developed, be reproduced and react in stimuli

I took the definition from a dictionary

it is quite different in the way we use it in language when we speak. I don't know if it's clear to you know. If it's not please tell me so I can try to explain better

Well, I often need help with my Classical Greek homework...

Are you familiar with this, or just Modern Greek?

Oops, excuse my extra .

classical Greek?
i don't know but I've heard of ancient Greek...
is that the same? am I wrong?

no, I am not really familiar with that but I maybe can help...
I went in a Greek school only for elementary but I still do Greek and I talk everyday since I'm Greek. The only problem though is that I go to an American school where we don't learn Classical Greek.
Ask me though and I might be able to help

Yep. According to my teacher...Ancient, Classical, and Old Greek are all synonymous. Don't know if that's the way it is with everyone, but it is in my case.

The hard thing with studying Ancient languages is that you can't speak with a native...that's why Ancient Greek is the hardest for me so far. I'm sure Ancient and Modern Greek are pretty similar on some levels and I've been told that Greeks who haven't studied old Greek can kind of understand what's going on when they read it...

Well, I don't have any burning Greek questions at the moment, but I'll let you know when I do. And believe me, I will! Probably next week. Thanks.

This isn't so much vocabulary, but I was wondering if you knew how to differentiate between Italian and Greek names? Just out of curiosity, but it would be pretty helpful in identifying nationality! Ta.

to differentiate between Italian and Greek names you need some experience in one of the languages because names are different in each culture. Of course, though, there're no rules for names

you can ask me any name you want though...

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