Why should I learn greek?

Answer 1

Every language is enriching you,giving you new perspectives and enable you to imbibe from new culture and spirit. So why not to learn Greek if you want? I do agree with "embroidery fan"..
Wish you luck with "ΤΑ ΝΕΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ "( modern Greek).
You could have a look at those free sites for learners of Greek:

http://www.kypros.org/LearnGreek
http://www.tauntaun13.150m.com/Lessons.htm
http://www.xanthi.ilsp.gr/filog/

Have a nice day!

Answer 2

1) You're in a program & they require it.
2) You're going to Greece to live. It would be helpful.
3) You're planning to marry a Greek person.
4) You're adopting a Greek child.
5) Knowing a few Greek roots, prefixes & suffixes helps you learn English vocabulary a lot more easily.
6) You want to read the New Testament in the original language, so you learn Ancient Greek.

Answer 3

It´s up to you, do you want to learn Greek or not. To know a foreign language is always a richness, Thinking of the great ancient history of Greece, Greek would be a very good language to know. Go for it!

Answer 4

It will help you to understand much of the sciences.
It will help you to understand philosophy
Its structure will help you to train yourself on how to think logically
It will give you the advantage on most other languages that have taken a major/minor part of their own words from Greek

You have to wonder
How come a people that naturally speak it who number at best 20,000,000 out of the worlds population through their history managed to accomplish so much in so many fields including the concept of Democracy .

Better yourself and learn Greek

Answer 5

Ancient Greek or modern Greek?
Learning a new language is always beneficial.

And:
"When you get married, don't you want write your mother in law a letter?"

Answer 6

It's nice but barely anyone in the world speaks Greek. . .it's more beneficial to learn Spanish due to the US's growing number of Spanish speaking residents

Answer 7

Why shouldn't you?
Greek is beautiful language, Greek culture is rich and famous.
You would learn modern greek, of course, which is also very heavy.
Believe it or not, it can be useful in many ways. Many words in modern languages, including english, originate from greek language. Words like: history, telephone, fantastic, phobia, even discotheque and many many more that you use every day are greek actually. Names for branches of medical science (paediatrics, psychiatry, etc), names for almost all sciences in general (biology, geography, philosophy,etc), names for almost all phobias (agoraphobia, arachnophobia, etc) they are all greek. Also names for diseases, for general abstract words that I can't even think of now, all in greek.
So greek is useful for your general culture and education, and I can recommend to all to learn greek language.

Answer 8

You should not it's a waste of everyone's time, mainly yours.

You can speak English in Greece and if people don't understand you can always raise your voice.

Answer 9

why should all democrats back down from the race in 2008

vote republican in 2008

Answer 10

Because as Billy Madison says "It's da coolest!"