“Something I always say to my students is that when you’re learning any new language, try not to think in your native language; think in the language you’re learning or speaking.” Valentinos Filippou ...

Yes, they do! Both Ancient Greek and Latin satisfy the second language requirement. So if you want to learn a fascinating language that will continue to benefit you for years to come, or if you just ...

When Andrea Marcolongo’s book “La Lingua Geniale,” subtitled “9 ragioni per amare il greco” (“Nine Reasons to Love Greek”), came out in 2016, I bought it, in Italian, and took it with me to Greece. I ...

The Cypriot dialect has travelled a long way from the margins. Once confined to casual conversations and jokes among friends, it is now breaking into public life, heard in radio ads, TV sketches, and ...

As I struggle in Alpha Mega with my Google translate app in one hand, hovering over the instructions on a tin of Mr Muscle oven cleaner in the other, I do wonder if my Greek should be better by now.