Conversational Modern Greek in 20 Lessons

I have owned this book for almost twenty years. I have used it repeatedly in that duration in conjunction with other materials, some even more outdated than this. I think it's a good book, but it's clearly a relic from a bygone era. If you're doing research on mid-20th century Greece, it is handy to have a bit of experience deciphering period text. If you are under fifty and try speak to people like this, they will look at you as though you're from another planet. If you want to learn to speak Greek, my recommendation would be the 'Epikoinoniste Ellinika' series, or 'Mathemata Ellinikon'. Language pedagogy has evolved a bit since this volume was published.

Very helpfull book for students learning Greek. Contains Modern Greek language sentences and pronounciations.

The 20 lessons consist of dialogues that incorporate key vocabulary terms and increasingly advanced grammatical structures. The lessons very capably work in cultural points that would enable an American, or any other foreign tourist for that matter, to seem much less ignorant to the natives. Most of the dialogues focus on everyday aspects of Greek life, including Transportation, Cuisine, Sightseeing, etc.). While the first 16 lessons are translated back into English (with phonetic translations to assist the student's pronunciation skills), the last 4 lessons are longer and more complex passages that are only printed in Greek so that the student can attempt on his/her own to translate and comprehend what he/she has read. Special features of this book include guides to Greek Pronunciation and basic Greek sentence structure, a 60+ page English-Greek/Greek-English Dictionary, an Irregular Verb List with grammatical conjugations, and a 30+ page Greek Grammar guide.I would recommend this book to anyone who needs to learn how to speak passable Greek, and only has about 2 or 3 weeks with which to do it. The edition of the book I have has a special offer for a FREE audio cassette. The book and the cassette together are an excellent way to quickly enable you to speak, read, write and understand Greek, at a reasonable level of skill.