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Tangriberdi
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Topic: What does Greek sound like to a non speak Posted: 11-Nov-2006 at 13:08 |
It sounds nothing to me. It sounds a crowd of voices is and os and mu
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Posted: 12-Nov-2006 at 11:51 |
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Posted: 12-Nov-2006 at 11:55 |
It is quite melodic if you ask me..I love the way the words including the letters "s" and "i" is pronounced by Greek speakers.
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Posted: 12-Nov-2006 at 12:09 |
Greek-spanish?? Never!! For us, the greek sound: jaremeste kraprostu litristi popoprolokusnoi..., really So, sound similar to russian and other slave languages wich sound: sivirishky prakalavesky sholimev krispruschi So very very far comparable with latin idioms.
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Posted: 12-Nov-2006 at 14:11 |
Originally posted by Ikki
So, sound similar to russian and other slave languages
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I think that greek sounds to a foreigner a language with lots of -os,-is, th(like theater) and th(like the), and full of vowels.
In the other hand slavic languages are full of consonants. I can say that the spanish who I heard speaking greek had the best accent and they are the only ones who don't make the "th" sounds d.
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Posted: 12-Nov-2006 at 14:36 |
Yes but, too long words mixing p,k, t, s,l. You can ask to anybody in Spain and if you talk in greek automatically he will put you not in a mediterranean country but surely he will say "Eastern Europe?" The only way that somebody have for difference greek from neighbours is the classical long greek surnames mixing p-l-k like "Giannakopoulos", "Anistopoulos", "Papaloukas", "Papadakis" But when you talk quickly, slavic
the spanish who I heard speaking greek had the best accent and they are the only ones who don't make the "th" sounds d |
That is becouse you heard a castillian spanish that know that th=z; but if you talk with anybody that don't know th=z surelly they will say d/t; worst, if you talk with latinoamericans or southern spanish speakers, like i, and we see "th" in the middle of a word (example, "southern") and know that mean "z" probably we will say "S" , because we are seseants (always S) and don't pronounce the Z. So southern=souzern=sousern. Forgive me man , talk again about greek.
Edited by Ikki - 12-Nov-2006 at 14:43
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Posted: 13-Nov-2006 at 04:10 |
No matter what, I travel a lot abroad (especially in the Balkans and CE) and I'm frequently mistaken for a Spaniard. When I speak Greek over the phone but also when I speak English, people mistake my accent for Spanish... Also my Spanish friends say so.
I don't know if that happens to other Greeks as well, but it does definitely happen to me.
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Posted: 13-Nov-2006 at 04:55 |
Originally posted by Ikki
Yes but, too long words mixing p,k, t, s,l. You can ask to anybody in
Spain and if you talk in greek automatically he will put you not in a
mediterranean country but surely he will say "Eastern Europe?"
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At least he will say "Europe"! i
think that the Greek language is not similar in accent to the
pronounciation of a certain branch of languages for example slavic or
romance.
it is similar to a certain extent to the pronounciation of some
neighbouring slavic languages(like serbian,bulgarian) and some
non-slavic neighbouring languages like Albanian or romanian but
certainly not with Russian.
Edited by nikodemos - 13-Nov-2006 at 05:13
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Posted: 13-Nov-2006 at 05:25 |
I can definitely see why most people say Spanish...
Like xristar, I often find myself doing a double-take and pricking my ears up (for a split second) thinking I'm hearing Greek before it finally hits me that it's Spanish.
There's obviously 'some' phonetic resemblance there, and no other language comes quite as close.
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Posted: 13-Nov-2006 at 09:58 |
Greek is a very pleasant language to hear, I would say it's very distinct, the syllables are very clear so maybe that's why people mistake it for Spanish.
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Posted: 13-Nov-2006 at 11:18 |
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Posted: 28-Dec-2006 at 17:50 |
When I was in Greece for a couple of months, I noticed that it sounded a bit like a Romance language, Italian or Spanish, more than I would have expected from what I knew of ancient Greek. It must have something to do with the vowels and the length of syllables.
Funnily, the 'gh' sound as in 'gamma' apparently matches the French 'r' and the word for 'but' is 'ma', which sounds Romance too. Must be purely incidental.
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Posted: 25-Sep-2011 at 09:13 |
It sounds same as Italian,quarrel among participants in talking it .Raise of voice once was big letter,new sentence...
Edited by medenaywe - 25-Sep-2011 at 15:13
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