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Informal: γειά or γειά σου (pronounced ya or ya soo)

Formal: γειά σας or χαίρετε (pronounced ya sas or cherete)

(Informal when referring to your friend and formal when referring to someone you don't know well or you have much respect to.)

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Ellinas wrote:

Informal: γειά or γειά σου (pronounced ya or ya soo)

Formal: γειά σας or χαίρετε (pronounced ya sas or cherete)

(Informal when referring to your friend and formal when referring to someone you don't know well or you have much respect to.)

I remember learning "chaire" in a class of koine ("New Testament")
Greek. As I recall, we were taught to pronounce it chy-ray where the "ch"
would have very gutteral sound.

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I think D1Doris is about to lose her bet...

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Kristoforos malakas...

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George wrote:

I remember learning "chaire" in a class of koine ("New Testament") Greek. As I recall, we were taught to pronounce it chy-ray where the "ch" would have very gutteral sound.

Yes, chaire is the greeting in Koine Greek, no matter who are you referring to. As it is obvious, chairete, which is used in Demotic Greek as I mentioned, descents from Chaire.

The pronounciation is difficult for English speakers. Ch sounds like the Spanish j. ai sounds like the Latin e.

George wrote:

Kristoforos malakas...

I always say this is the first Greek word the foreigners are learning.

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How many vowel sounds are there in Greek?

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Ellinas wrote:

George wrote:
Kristoforos malakas...

I always say this is the first Greek word the foreigners are learning.

Ellinas, George being the gentleman he is, he wouldn't pronounce such words...

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Francis wrote:

Ellinas wrote:
George wrote:
Kristoforos malakas...

I always say this is the first Greek word the foreigners are learning.

Ellinas, George being the gentleman he is, he wouldn't pronounce such words...

I have so many things in my mind, I am not usually paying attention to such details Laughing

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InfraBlue wrote:

How many vowel sounds are there in Greek?

They are 7 vowels which make 4 different vowel sounds (a,e,i,o as you would read them in Latin).

Also, they are 4 diphthongs which make 3 different vowel sounds (ai makes e, ei or oi makes i, ou makes u).

If you want to pronounce different vowel sounds you have to make combinations.

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Thank you very much! I won my bet Smile

I have another question, seeing as I'm not the only one interested in Greek: how do you pronounce the upsilon in modern greek?

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D1Doris wrote:

Thank you very much! I won my bet

I have another question, seeing as I'm not the only one interested in Greek: how do you pronounce the upsilon in modern greek?

Like the Latin i. Or like the English e in the word "ear".

Giota, Eta and Upsilon are making exactly the same sound in Greek. Which of this three will be used at a word, depends to the meaning and the origin/root of the word.

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Note that I explain everything with the standars of the official Demotic Greek. In Demotic dialects used in some parts of Greece the pronounciations of some letters are slightly different, but official Demotic Greek is generally spoken, and understood by everyone.

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Ellinas, how do you get the Greek font to appear on this forum?

I have a keyboard switcher for use in MS Word and also I have some Greek fonts included with the program XP, but how do you use them in the forums?

efharisto poli

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Herema wrote:

Ellinas, how do you get the Greek font to appear on this forum?

I have a keyboard switcher for use in MS Word and also I have some Greek fonts included with the program XP, but how do you use them in the forums?

efharisto poli

Check the "Disable HTML in this post" button before you submit the message.

Parakalo Smile

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thank you Ellinas. I am learning Greek (self studying) and love to learn new phrases and words.

hmmm....I tried to copy paste from a word document using the greek font and it pastes as regular and makes little sense.

is there something else I must do?

Me agapi kai filia

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Do you mean that it is not displayed correctly after you paste it at the message box? It is probably an encoding problem appeared after the copy-paste. Try writing the message here instead or Word. Change the font from Latin to Greek by using ctrl+shift or left alt+shift (depends to your settings).

And if you have any questions about Greek grammar or vocabulary feel free to ask me.

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Ellinas, you show great patience so far in helping me. I have installed LaserGreek fonts and keyboard switchers. The layout for the keyboard switcher appears to not be working correctly and the most I can do until I uninstall the program and reinstall it, is to use the Greek fonts without the keyboard switcher. When I paste from a word document using the Greek fonts they paste as standard English fonts to this forum.

How can I get MS Word XP fonts to copy paste with the formating of the Greek fonts. One of your posts has it and that is why I know it can be done. What am I doing wrong? How did you get yours to appear as Greek font?

Learning Greek in the English font looses its beauty and I would rather learn it using the Greek form not the "Greeklish"

Thanks so much for your patience and once I get this straightened out, I really do want to learn more Greek....words and phrases.

efharisto poli

Herema

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ΚΑΛΗΜΕΡΑ

Just trying my keyboard..

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Herema wrote:

One of your posts has it and that is why I know it can be done. What am I doing wrong? How did you get yours to appear as Greek font?

I bought my computers in Greece so everything (encoding settings etc.) is set suitably. When I press alt+shift the font is turned to Greek and I write normally.

Anyway try this: In Microsoft Word go to Tools>Settings. Then click the "General" section and then click "Web settings". Then click the section "Encoding" and change the encoding to Unicode or Greek. I hope I am making the translation of the terms correctly, since my office is in Greek, but I don't think you will have a problem finding the web settings window.

If this does not fix the problem, I don't really know. However tell me if it works or not when you try it.

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Also, in the case you will need it, there is a Greeklish to Greek transliterator here: http://speech.ilsp.gr/greeklish/greeklishdemo.asp . I was impressed my self when I found it, since it places the accents and everything correctly most of the time.

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