I learned more Greek in 11 minutes than I've learned in the past weeks when I've tried to study from other sources. You have a new subscriber. Ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ!
I'm a Greek-American who just came across your channel, and while I do know how to speak Greek, I enjoy watching your interviews with Greek locals -- it helps me understand the more conversational aspects of the language. My parents were both born and raised in small villages in Lakonia, and I went to Greek school at our local church from the ages of 7 to 13 ... but when I talk, I probably sound like I'm from the χωριό from the 1950s 😂 Anyway, I've been taking care of my elderly father, and he is able to watch Greek TV stations on his satellite dish. I've caught a few news reports on Alpha News about the heat wave currently in Athens, and I had a question about a word that people repeatedly use: χαμός. I've seen several different meanings for it, which are all negative (doom, chaos, loss) but the people who are using that word on the news (the folks who are being interviewed at ice cream stores, at the beach, etc) don't seem to be using it in that way. Also, because of its similarity to the word Χαμόγελο, which means to smile, I'm even further confused! Can you please shed some light on this word, and why it would be used when discussing the heat wave and people flocking to the beaches and ice cream shops? Σασ ευχαριστώ πολύ!
Nice question! First of all, χαμογελώ and χαμός do not actually have a common root. Χαμογελώ comes from χαμω-γελάω, and this χαμω- means "low" or "on the ground/dirt" (and is also the root of «χαμηλά»). Think of a smile as a low-intensity, or even modest or timid, laugh. «Χάμω» is also sometimes used instead of «κάτω», as in «έπεσε χάμω», and in ancient Greek χαμαί referred to the ground. The word χαμαιλέων (chameleon) literally meant "dirt/ground lion." Yeah... «Χαμός», on the other hand, derives from «χάνω». It originally meant the death of a person («χάσανε την κόρη τους - ποτέ δεν ξεπεράσανε τον χαμό του παιδιού τους»), and is still used this way - notice the difference with the more general «χάσιμο». However, in modern Greek it is much more commonly used as an expression, what you hear on the TV: «(γίνεται) χαμός» - one English word that comes to mind is "kerfuffle", but it's not so idiomatic in Greek. «Χαμός» also means, as you mentioned, chaos or disarray of any kind - from crowds of people on the streets, lots of noise, the mess left over by a party, to, yes, dead bodies after a battle. I assume people using it to describe a heatwave mean that it has created chaos, disorder, and masses of people going to the beach or to have a nice παγωτό. It's one of those words that are hard to translate, and we even talked about it on our Untranslatable Greek Words live. I hope this helped!
@@EasyGreekVideos Wow ... thanks so much for the detailed, and simple-to-understand reply. You're very good at this. :) I do recall my mom sometimes saying "κατσε χαμω" instead of "κατσε κατω," though she would use the former when she was pissed off at us haha ... As for words that are hard to translate, my Greek friends, cousins and I always turn to two words we love to use: ζαβλακωμένος, which we use to describe a feeling of being out of it (tired, confused and discombobulated all at once) and κόμπιασα, which ... this one's harder to explain, but it's when you eat something too quickly and you get a pain in your chest. I looked up both words and realize they DO NOT mean what we use them to mean, but I'm just going to blame that on "Greeklish" and parents who were raised in the χωριό, as Greeks in the US have kind of created their own words and meanings. Anyway, thanks again -- you have a really cool channel!
Athens is incredible! But given the latest 'heat wave', please do yourself a favor, and carry cold bottled water with you during the day, wear a hat to shield you from the strong sun, and take lots of breaks. Have fun!
I am ethnic Russian 🇷🇺, my grand-grand father was ethnic Greek 🇬🇷 Pantelei. I am very proud to be a descendant of this amazing nation. I hope your channel will help me in learning the language. I believe that the roots, language (at least partially), culture, traditions need to be known, remembered, loved and appreciated. Thank you for the useful content. It is so important for us. 🤍💙
I am a complete beginner and am loving these videos. I keep having to rewind so I can copy but I think that’s it’s so new! I am English so the X sound is quite hard for me. I am hoping the more I listen and practice I will get it, the rolling of the r seems to be easier with a word in front first too. Thanks for these videos! 🙏🏻
There are two χ sounds: one in front of I and e sounds and the one before all the rest. But neither can be found in the English language, I'm afraid. The first is used in German and the second in Spanish, if that helps.
Ευχαριστώ Easy Greek, It's so cool to follow you guys, the content is so fun and useful ! I'm making tremendous progress in learning Greek and I feel nothing can stop me !! I have learned several languages so far and it's the first time in 30 years that's been so fun and pleasant thanks to Marilena, Dimitri, Loukas, Markos ! I can't express how grateful I am. Thanks a lot for all the hard work and sharing this valuable content. ❤❤❤❤
Ευχαριστώ πολύ για Αυτά τα λογια , και είμαι Πόλη Ευτηχισμένος όταν είδα το βίντεο Τώρα στη στηγμι , για ποια Λόγια Μπορο να Χρήζιμοπιο , Οταν Είμαι με ο φίλος μου , στη Εστιατόριο , στην Ελλάδα . Πάλη Ευχαριστώ πόλη για Αυτά τα Ελληνικι Βίντεας , και Καλό Απόγευμα .. 😀 😀
Dude your greek is pretty good but you need some practice on your spelling and orthography, but im impressed , I can say as native greek that the language is unique but not the hardest to learn , the hard part is the orthography. 😊😊 Also i saw your comment is 1 year old so i guess you have master it ❤
This video (and others) is helpful to get practice hearing Greek as it is used everyday. Combined with my other resources, I might be able to understand the locals a little bit by the time I get to Greece in 8 months. Efharistó!
man this really hits me in the feels I used to live in Greece and I always went to the monument at 9:47 you should check out the Starbucks there its perfect also thanks for refreshing my greek a lot it was getting very rusty so I can't thank you enough!
Thank you very much for this video! This really help me in learning Greek but I do have one question. How to genders work? For example 'νόστιμος/η/ο'. Are genders used based on the gender of the person talking? Thank you in advance!
In Greek, not just people have genders - all nouns have a gender! So: ο νόστιμος καφές (the tasty coffee), η νόστιμη σαλάτα (the tasty salad), το νόστιμο φαγητό (the tasty food). Hope this helps.
I have been practising Greek for 4 years now ... First time I talk to a Greek person online and he mocked me for having practised so long and I still apparently suck at it ... Honestly I am so annoyed that I've dedicated so much time and I still suck at this it is actually depressing I could brake my freaking laptop or drive into a tree
I probably can't hold a conversation beyond hello how are you ... I can't think of many Greek words from the top of my head and reading is still gibberish after 4 years like what the actual hell I must be stupid I feel like quiting holy jesus
When i think of nostimos i think of funny 😂... i can't... lol... cs in Romanian nostim is funny 😅 so... good mnemonic trick: this weird food is so unexpectedly tasty that its almost funny 😅
It means you watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding my mom always tried to get me to watch it and i only decided to finally do it recently because i was learning the language 😭
I can tell that my brain will put up a fight with ή and δεν. The first one because of some Spanish contact, the second one because of English. Practice should take care of that, right? Edit: and then you hit me with νόστιμος... Which in Romanian has nothing to do with a thing being tasty... I'll tangle my neurons for sure.
This is trully amazing video to learn. I came just for 2 minutes and stayed for the whole video. Such a creative concept and so intersting to watch. I can see you guys had fun there. Truly a masterpiece of language learning!!! Thank you thank you!!! Please more videos like that. Greek is completely new and different language to me, but it sounds to beautiful and elegant!!! thank you for this beginners video!!! Much appreciated! Greetings from Ukraine!
Talking too fast when presenting new words. I understand you want it to sound natural, but this is exaggerated “natural.”Doesn’t make sense for a video targeting total beginners.
I learned more Greek in 11 minutes than I've learned in the past weeks when I've tried to study from other sources. You have a new subscriber. Ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ!
Really glad to hear it! Welcome
Yasu❤🎉❤
Okay, this one is now my favorite! 😂 Μπράβο!
@@sllingky mine too
This is possibly the BEST Greek learning video I have come across!!! Ευχαριστώ μεγαλο!!!!
Wow, thank you!
I'm a Greek-American who just came across your channel, and while I do know how to speak Greek, I enjoy watching your interviews with Greek locals -- it helps me understand the more conversational aspects of the language. My parents were both born and raised in small villages in Lakonia, and I went to Greek school at our local church from the ages of 7 to 13 ... but when I talk, I probably sound like I'm from the χωριό from the 1950s 😂
Anyway, I've been taking care of my elderly father, and he is able to watch Greek TV stations on his satellite dish. I've caught a few news reports on Alpha News about the heat wave currently in Athens, and I had a question about a word that people repeatedly use: χαμός. I've seen several different meanings for it, which are all negative (doom, chaos, loss) but the people who are using that word on the news (the folks who are being interviewed at ice cream stores, at the beach, etc) don't seem to be using it in that way. Also, because of its similarity to the word Χαμόγελο, which means to smile, I'm even further confused! Can you please shed some light on this word, and why it would be used when discussing the heat wave and people flocking to the beaches and ice cream shops?
Σασ ευχαριστώ πολύ!
Nice question!
First of all, χαμογελώ and χαμός do not actually have a common root. Χαμογελώ comes from χαμω-γελάω, and this χαμω- means "low" or "on the ground/dirt" (and is also the root of «χαμηλά»). Think of a smile as a low-intensity, or even modest or timid, laugh.
«Χάμω» is also sometimes used instead of «κάτω», as in «έπεσε χάμω», and in ancient Greek χαμαί referred to the ground. The word χαμαιλέων (chameleon) literally meant "dirt/ground lion." Yeah...
«Χαμός», on the other hand, derives from «χάνω». It originally meant the death of a person («χάσανε την κόρη τους - ποτέ δεν ξεπεράσανε τον χαμό του παιδιού τους»), and is still used this way - notice the difference with the more general «χάσιμο». However, in modern Greek it is much more commonly used as an expression, what you hear on the TV: «(γίνεται) χαμός» - one English word that comes to mind is "kerfuffle", but it's not so idiomatic in Greek. «Χαμός» also means, as you mentioned, chaos or disarray of any kind - from crowds of people on the streets, lots of noise, the mess left over by a party, to, yes, dead bodies after a battle.
I assume people using it to describe a heatwave mean that it has created chaos, disorder, and masses of people going to the beach or to have a nice παγωτό.
It's one of those words that are hard to translate, and we even talked about it on our Untranslatable Greek Words live.
I hope this helped!
@@EasyGreekVideos Wow ... thanks so much for the detailed, and simple-to-understand reply. You're very good at this. :)
I do recall my mom sometimes saying "κατσε χαμω" instead of "κατσε κατω," though she would use the former when she was pissed off at us haha ...
As for words that are hard to translate, my Greek friends, cousins and I always turn to two words we love to use: ζαβλακωμένος, which we use to describe a feeling of being out of it (tired, confused and discombobulated all at once) and κόμπιασα, which ... this one's harder to explain, but it's when you eat something too quickly and you get a pain in your chest. I looked up both words and realize they DO NOT mean what we use them to mean, but I'm just going to blame that on "Greeklish" and parents who were raised in the χωριό, as Greeks in the US have kind of created their own words and meanings.
Anyway, thanks again -- you have a really cool channel!
@@EasyGreekVideos and χαμομήλι = literally, the ground-apple. Great explanation of the other words -- I love stuff like this
😂😂😂i love ur channel so much. People crazy and real. That's great one to learn Greek and it's lovely culture. Love from China ❤
I love your sense of humour guys!:)
Thank you!
thank you, in august I'm gonna visit Athen and Greece for the first time and I needed a video like this
Excellent, we made this video precisely for people like you.
Athens is incredible! But given the latest 'heat wave', please do yourself a favor, and carry cold bottled water with you during the day, wear a hat to shield you from the strong sun, and take lots of breaks. Have fun!
I am ethnic Russian 🇷🇺, my grand-grand father was ethnic Greek 🇬🇷 Pantelei. I am very proud to be a descendant of this amazing nation. I hope your channel will help me in learning the language. I believe that the roots, language (at least partially), culture, traditions need to be known, remembered, loved and appreciated.
Thank you for the useful content. It is so important for us. 🤍💙
That's true
I appreciate how your channel adds simple humor to the lesson. This keeps it fun and keeps your attention better than a stodgy lecturer. Good stuff!
hey , are you still learning ?
I am a complete beginner and am loving these videos. I keep having to rewind so I can copy but I think that’s it’s so new! I am English so the X sound is quite hard for me. I am hoping the more I listen and practice I will get it, the rolling of the r seems to be easier with a word in front first too. Thanks for these videos! 🙏🏻
There are two χ sounds: one in front of I and e sounds and the one before all the rest. But neither can be found in the English language, I'm afraid. The first is used in German and the second in Spanish, if that helps.
Probably the best language learning method for certain people :)
Ευχαριστώ Easy Greek, It's so cool to follow you guys, the content is so fun and useful ! I'm making tremendous progress in learning Greek and I feel nothing can stop me !! I have learned several languages so far and it's the first time in 30 years that's been so fun and pleasant thanks to Marilena, Dimitri, Loukas, Markos ! I can't express how grateful I am. Thanks a lot for all the hard work and sharing this valuable content. ❤❤❤❤
Thank you for your kind comment! - Dimitris
very good . Greetings from Poland. Im having first trip to Zakynthos this year.
Siema , hope you had fun in Greece ❤
Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! The BEST Greek learning video!!!
The best easy Greek episode for us to learn Greek please make a lot thanks thanks thanks
efcharistó efcharistó efcharistó ;-)
Μπράβο Δημήτρη και σε όλους ❤❤
Greek sounds like a mix of finnish and spanish from spain! It really sounds like finnish language ❤
Me too, learned much more in this episode than in 12 years’ holidays in Greece😂
Good video. Especially for reusing the new learned words in other sentences to repeat them every time is very helpful!
Χαρικα πολύ εισαι βιτεο
That was the idea! Thank you
I like the vibe❤
Hands down, the BEST video to learn Greek on TH-cam so far!
Σας ευχαριστώ για με βοηθήσατε να μάθω τη γλώσσα των θεών
Love your lessons !! In one week I can say that I have learned more then what I have learned in one year! thank u for sharing !
This is excellent
Ευχαριστώ, Easy Greek! I've just started to learn Greek and this is amazing! 😀
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@@Hasanbas-rv3vmI would prefer to become an Easy Greek patreon! 😉 😀
@@jeroenvanheesewijk7290 language transfer app is free and you learn greek
Very simple
Wow, Thank you..💝💐
Ευχαριστώ πολύ για Αυτά τα λογια , και είμαι Πόλη Ευτηχισμένος όταν είδα το βίντεο Τώρα στη στηγμι , για ποια Λόγια Μπορο να Χρήζιμοπιο , Οταν Είμαι με ο φίλος μου , στη Εστιατόριο , στην Ελλάδα . Πάλη Ευχαριστώ πόλη για Αυτά τα Ελληνικι Βίντεας , και Καλό Απόγευμα .. 😀 😀
Dude your greek is pretty good but you need some practice on your spelling and orthography, but im impressed , I can say as native greek that the language is unique but not the hardest to learn , the hard part is the orthography. 😊😊 Also i saw your comment is 1 year old so i guess you have master it ❤
I love this lesson it's great
I love your videos, thank you!🙏
This videos are a blast 😂. I love the way they teach with so much fun. Σας ευχαριστώ
Σας ευχαριστώ! Mου άρεσε πολύ!
Thanks , this kind of videos are real Easy Greek Please please. Continue
Ευχαριστώ!
❤ Σας ευχαριστώ❤
Great and funny video! Bravo!
Absolutely love this 🎉
Funny and helpful video I like it very much do more videos like this one 😁💕
I make a pinky promise to learn this language, if you promise in turn that natives will do triple backflips when I speak their language.
I hope more modest signs of appreciation will do!
Ma grazie cosi tanto 🙏
Siete troppo simpatici !! Oltre che ottimi insegnanti
I was trying to read your sentence thinking you were trying to talk in greek but then i used the translation xd
so funny! i loved it!
ευχαριστώ!
Your way of teaching is Amezing ☺️👍 we can learn with fun
phenomenal! i've never been interested in (modern) greek, but this video kinda makes me start learning it. good job guys!
Wow, thank you!
This video (and others) is helpful to get practice hearing Greek as it is used everyday. Combined with my other resources, I might be able to understand the locals a little bit by the time I get to Greece in 8 months. Efharistó!
Μπράβο ! Keep up the food work ! Marilena
You guys are hilarious!! Ευχαριστώ!
çok güzel
💀
Μου αρέσει παρά πολύ Δημήτρη. Σε ευχαριστώ πολύ.
Das ist so lustig und man lernt viel.Danke
now you understand the concept of "easy" in the "easy language" channels
i really like these ones of many words!!!✌️👌👌👌
The better way to learn greek is in this channel ❤😻👏👏👏
Nope best way is language transfer app
@@Hasanbas-rv3vmare you sponsored ? xd
Ευχαριστώ ομαδα Easy Greek!
Πολύ χρήσιμο και υπέροχο βίντεο!
Thanks for posting👍
Ευχαριστώ πολύ, παιδιά!
ماشاءالله
Bombs allowed?
Ευχαριστώ πολύ για να όμορφο βίντεο❤
Very very good
Thank you !
I like your method. I'll be back.
Please do!
Very good teaching..the only thing is that the translation switches too fast..
People don't really have time to read
👌😎me think wonderful YOU wonderful 🇬🇷😉
I'm on day 250 of Duolingo and learned almost the same amount in this one video
Marko has some serious hops to get out of that fountain!
2:24 (just a tag for myself)
man this really hits me in the feels I used to live in Greece and I always went to the monument at 9:47 you should check out the Starbucks there its perfect also thanks for refreshing my greek a lot it was getting very rusty so I can't thank you enough!
😅👏Can we learn the words in the middle or only on top-which is correct?
The middle is just to help you get used to the Greek alphabet.
❤❤❤You
Τέλεια
2:24
Thank you very much for this video! This really help me in learning Greek but I do have one question. How to genders work? For example 'νόστιμος/η/ο'. Are genders used based on the gender of the person talking? Thank you in advance!
In Greek, not just people have genders - all nouns have a gender! So: ο νόστιμος καφές (the tasty coffee), η νόστιμη σαλάτα (the tasty salad), το νόστιμο φαγητό (the tasty food). Hope this helps.
@@EasyGreekVideos OH, I get it now! Ευχαριστώ πολύ! Please don't stop making videos 🙏
❤❤
Βιντεο σου ειναι η βοήθεια πολύ, Δεν ξερω if I made some error x) Παλι Ευχαριστω πολύ!!! (Yeah I made some Ελλιγγλαδα (Ελληνικα ή Αγγλikα)
greeklish
👌❤🇬🇷👌❤ελλινικα😘😘
bravi! we need more like this 😁🤩
Camp in Greek?
does the singular change if you introduce yourself when you're a girl? Ειμαι ο Δεμπρα or would it be Ειμαι η Δεμπρα?
Certainly.
Ποια είναι η διαφορά μεταξύ καληνύχτας και καλό βράδυ; Ευχαριστώ και χαιρετίσματα από την Ισπανία
Το καληνύχτα το λες πριν εσυ ή ο συνομιλητής σου πάτε για ύπνο. Αυτή ειναι η μόνη ουσιαστική διαφορά
ναι στην ουσία όταν είσαι σπίτι και πας για ύπνο λες καληνύχτα , ενώ καλό βράδυ όταν φεύγεις από κάποια συνάντηση
Efharisto poly!
Μου αρέσει το βίντεο σas. Μαθαινω ελληνικα, μιλαω λιγο ελληνικα τωρα.
I have been practising Greek for 4 years now ... First time I talk to a Greek person online and he mocked me for having practised so long and I still apparently suck at it ... Honestly I am so annoyed that I've dedicated so much time and I still suck at this it is actually depressing I could brake my freaking laptop or drive into a tree
I probably can't hold a conversation beyond hello how are you ... I can't think of many Greek words from the top of my head and reading is still gibberish after 4 years like what the actual hell I must be stupid I feel like quiting holy jesus
use language transfer's greek audio course
it's all free and on youtube
i think practicing on greek books will help or chatting online
When i think of nostimos i think of funny 😂... i can't... lol... cs in Romanian nostim is funny 😅 so... good mnemonic trick: this weird food is so unexpectedly tasty that its almost funny 😅
Very interesting! And great mnemonic.
στο τέλος το άλμα
Χρησιμο βιντεο, εγω νομιζα οτι "τσιπουρο¨ ειναι ειδoς ψαριου, τωρα ξερω☺
Η τσιπούρα είναι το ψάρι! 🐟
An pineis poly tsipouro, tha deis polles tsipoures 🤭
😂🤍🩵
- το πουλί
- χαχαχα
You’ll get it when your Greek becomes a bit more advanced 😂
Πουλί is the bird ή "που" είναι ο "λι" ?
Doesn't 'POLY" mean penis?
You mean "pouli", which is also mentioned in the video. But it also means "bird." Kind of like "cock" can mean both "penis" and "male bird."
@@EasyGreekVideos Great point, yes! You are most certainly a 'cunninglinguist'!
τι έπαθε ο Μάρκος αφού την τελευταία εμφάνιση 😄
άσε φίλε ούτε εγώ δεν ξέρω
@@markkaltsa2969 έλα ρε Μάρκο, είσαι υπέροχος !
1st , proti
"Exo tria archidia".... doesn't this mean "hello, how are you?"
It means "I'm a bad troll." 🤗
It means you have to see a specialist 😁
It means you watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding
my mom always tried to get me to watch it and i only decided to finally do it recently because i was learning the language 😭
I feel like we've missed out the No.1 Greek word everyone should know......
We've made a whole episode about that though!
I can tell that my brain will put up a fight with ή and δεν. The first one because of some Spanish contact, the second one because of English. Practice should take care of that, right?
Edit: and then you hit me with νόστιμος... Which in Romanian has nothing to do with a thing being tasty...
I'll tangle my neurons for sure.
Well, look at it from the bright side: you have ready-to-go mnemonics!
glika eisai
Γεια στην παρέα. Νομίζω ότι η πρώτη λέξη είναι μία κακιά ....
Γι΄αυτήν τη συγκεκριμένη έχουμε κάνει ολόκληρο βίντεο!
@@EasyGreekVideos Ναι, το θυμάμαι.
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This is trully amazing video to learn. I came just for 2 minutes and stayed for the whole video. Such a creative concept and so intersting to watch. I can see you guys had fun there. Truly a masterpiece of language learning!!! Thank you thank you!!! Please more videos like that. Greek is completely new and different language to me, but it sounds to beautiful and elegant!!! thank you for this beginners video!!! Much appreciated! Greetings from Ukraine!
Thank you!
Repent of your sins and trust that Jesus Christ died for you!
Όχι!
Read 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins. Excellent book!
Δε πρέπει λίγο να επιλέξετε σε τι επίπεδο απευθύνεστε; Δε μπορεί τη μια να εξηγείτε τις ομόηχες λέξεις και μετά να μαθαίνετε το καλημέρα
Εσύ λες ότι δεν μπορεί, εμείς λέμε ότι μπορεί, γιατί μας βλέπει κόσμος όλων των επιπέδων. Ο κοινός παρονομαστής είναι η ελληνική γλώσσα.
Talking too fast when presenting new words. I understand you want it to sound natural, but this is exaggerated “natural.”Doesn’t make sense for a video targeting total beginners.