Is Greek a hard language to learn?

Question

I'm a classical arcaheology major and I have to take Greek. I was wondering if it is really hard to learn. I already Speak English and Spanish, conversational French, and some Italian and Portuguese but I don't think if these languages will help me since they are Latin based.

Answer 1

Are you talking about ancient Greek or modern Greek? They are very different. anyway, you'll find a relatively complex verb conjugations. We have that in Spanish (even more complex). The alphabet is different, yes, but it is not difficult to learn a new one. In a couple of days you should be able to write things, even if you don't know what they mean. I guess you'll find problems with declentions. They barely exist in the languages you already know. In order to avoid problems, make sure you know Spanish grammar to some extent. It'll help you a lot. Most spanish native speakers have problems with languages such as German and Russian because they don't understand the use of cases. My first advice would be: revise gramar in your native.
And remember that MANY words we have in Spanish.. yes, came from Latin, but Latin took them from Greek. So, you'll see that there are many words you can relate to Spanish.
Buena suerte... y ¡a estudiar mucho!

Answer 2

Russian will probably the most useful, especially in Eastern Europe and Western Asia. Russia is a world-class oil and gas exporter, and has an extensive cultural heritage. They are all three Category II Languages (significant linguistic and/or cultural differences from English), harder to learn than German, but Czech will be the easiest as it uses a variant of the Latin alphabet, and Russian the hardest, as it has a fully-inflected grammar.

Answer 3

If you can learn Spanish, some of french, Italian and Portuguese of course you can learn Greek. Just start it and set some time to study. good Luck.

Answer 4

My first Greek textbook (Fobes) said in the introduction "there is no such thing as Greek without tears."

Greek is a difficult language to learn, mostly because of the verbs. However, your knowledge of other languages WILL be very beneficial, because you are already familiar with the grammatical structures of language. That will be of great assistance to you as you learn.

You can do it!

Answer 5

No its not difficult. I had only taken French in high school before taking Greek in college. I got B's and I wasn't even a very good college student when it came to academics.