ranting about the Greek language

Okay, the single nuttiest thing is that the word for Yes is Neh, and it sometimes sounds like Nay on the CDs. Oxi is No. It is so painful trying to get those straight in my brain. It doesn't help at all, and may explain international relations that in Bulgarian (and probably Serbian and some other languages) Neh is indeed No, just like most any other Indo-European would expect.

My other issues are perhaps more my problem than something fundamentally wrong with Greek, but this Yes/No thing is just not right.

Or = Ee , And = Kay, But = Alla, At = Shto, (over there)= Ay-kee, To (verb infinitive maker) = Na

Of course ee (y) is Spanish for And, and kay (que) is Spanish for what, while in Greek Tea (ti) means what. And Spanish for here (aqui) is much like the Greek for there.


At least Or in Russian is eelee, but if I think about that I need to be sure to leave off the lee. In Russian, Shto is what and Na is At/On. :-p

I definitely am trying to finally get each language to sit in its own bucket in my head, because mixing them together is going to get more and more incomprehensible.

Also what was Cyril thinking? H ! For 30+ years I've known H sounds like N, now I have to learn that it is E instead!