Milestone: Modern Greek I
I just had another Greek lesson via Myngle and the topic was a text with lots of positive and negative imperatives. I thought that the explanations my teacher was giving didn’t appear to be very difficult language, so on a hunch I asked her to use Greek as much as possible in this lesson and only switch back to English if I appeared not to understand something.
You know what? It worked great. I actually understood 85% of the words, even though she wasn’t talking particularly slowly, and I understood 100% of the meaning. Some of it is probably because my forage into Greek verbs, which I’ve been practising on Anki, essential words for this context like χρησιμοποιώ (to use). But also I have the feeling that something just clicked and I’m a lot faster at both understanding and using Greek words now.
Rebecka said,
August 5, 2009 @ 22:44
How much do you pay for one lesson?
Sounds great though, congratulations!
Judith said,
August 6, 2009 @ 06:48
My teacher Rania charges 135 EUR for 10 x 45-minute lessons. Right now I’m not paying it myself though; I was doing lesson planning and quality control for the Myngle Programs and got study credit in addition to my salary.
Once the credit runs out, I will still continue to supplement my studies with private lessons because I find them so useful in helping me advance quickly. Read what you inspired me to write about why I like private classes.