In the Greek phrase book for tourists, we have included only those words and expressions that do not require informative answers.
What is the point of learning the word-question “why?” if you can’t understand what they answer to you? Although we still left this word. And suddenly you want to listen to the Greek speech.

Our phrasebook is not for conversations and information, it is for establishing contact, for creating a pleasant mood for yourself and others. Others are hotel neighbors, the owner or hostess of the hotel, the receptionist, just nice people with whom you go to the beach at the same time.

IN Greek phrase book for tourists we have included words and phrases that we used ourselves. We enjoyed saying them. In the end, ask "how much?" or saying “yes, this” when they show you the souvenirs on the counter is much more pleasant than shaking your head and getting angry that you are not understood.

Local residents are always positive towards tourists and guests. Their income depends on us. But even they are trying to quickly get rid of the slow-witted, arrogant tourist who turns his head in displeasure, rolls his eyes (oh, Lord, how stupid these locals are! does not understand!)

Such an aggressive demeanor is characteristic of insecure people who are not ready to understand that sign language and a couple of pre-learned phrases open the doors of the heart of even a simple peasant woman selling melons in her field.

We have noticed more than once that it is worth saying a few words, admiring the nature around, laughing with them, and some colorful old peasant woman with a cigarette in the corner of her mouth, severe from wrinkles drawn by the sun, breaks into a smile, takes out all her goods. She immediately offers to drink, bite, try, and in the end, how dear grandmother before the granddaughter leaves, he puts a couple of peaches, a melon and oranges in a bag - they will come in handy!

Communication is a great thing. A couple of words + a smile creates a great mood for the whole day and a desire to do something pleasant. In response, we tried more than once to give something of ours. It's nice, honestly. Recommended.

Greetings, Farewells, Acquaintance, Appeals

Consent, refusal, requests, gratitude, necessity

Language barrier, timing

The hotel is worth knowing simple words- key, luggage, suitcase, tomorrow, today. Especially the key. “Key, please) Thank you)” What is easier? And in response, they can show you a landmark or advise a map of the area that you did not notice.

Pick up a map, smack your lips and say "cafe" or "tavern"? And you will be advised an excellent inexpensive place where the owners of the hotel like to visit themselves. Believe me, you will enjoy: you will see the color and eat deliciously. Someone who, but the Greeks know a lot about delicious food.

Pronouns and adverbs

Signs, names, warnings, institutions, organizations

Seeking help from the police

Numbers are needed more for entertainment than for business. It is easier to write them down in a notebook or with a stick in the sand to rewrite in a notebook. The store has a calculator and a scoreboard at the checkout. Let them be for common development.

Greek language handsome. Many words are understandable. Especially the written ones. One feels the relationship of the alphabets. In addition, many letters are known to us from school times in the lessons of geometry, algebra and physics.

This is YouTube with the alphabet. You will learn the pronunciation of letters, remember the letters themselves. It is convenient in the language that "as it is heard, so it is written." By repeating the letters, you can read the simplest signs on the street. Sometimes it's necessary. Once we confused a shop on a field road with a cafe. Happens.

Watch the lesson and read the Greek phrase book for tourists.

Food, names of dishes require a separate story. More on this later.

Greeks are very fond of languages. This is not even so much a tribute to fashion as a necessity. Tourism accounts for 20% of the Greek economy, and another 20% for navigation: every Greek father is sure that knowledge of foreign languages ​​is the key to a bright future for his child. As a result, in tourist places, knowledge of the words of the Greek language may not be useful to you at all. Nevertheless, the Greeks love and appreciate it very much when tourists try to speak Greek at least a little. And in a rare tavern, the owner will not please you with at least dessert for this attempt.

Together with Anya, our Greek tutor, Grekoblog compiled a list of 30 words/phrases that seemed to us the most popular on the trip. To make it easier to perceive unfamiliar words, we have given Russian and Latin transcriptions next to each phrase. The same letters that are not found in the Latin alphabet were left "as is".

It should also be borne in mind that in the words of the Greek language great importance has an accent. Unlike Russian, the stress in Greek almost always falls on the last, penultimate, or third syllable from the end of a word. To simplify, in Russian transcription, we have highlighted stressed vowels in capital letters.

In Greek, stress is of great importance: it almost always falls on the last or penultimate syllable.

Greeting words:

1. Γειά σου (I am su) - hello, hello (literally translated “health to you”). So you can say hello at any time of the day, if you are “on you” with the interlocutor. The form of politeness completely coincides with the Russian language. If you want to politely greet a stranger or older person, we say:

Γειά Σας (I am sas) - hello.

The phrases Γειά σου and Γειά Σας can also say goodbye. They will also come in handy if someone next to you sneezed: Γειά σου and Γειά Σας will mean in this case"Be healthy" or "Be healthy", respectively.

2. Καλημέρα (KalimEra) - Good morning. So you can say hello until about 13.00, but the boundaries here are blurred. For someone, καλημέρα is also relevant until 15.00 - who woke up at what time :).

Καλησπέρα (calispera) - Good evening. Actual, as a rule, after 16-17 hours.

You can say goodbye at night by wishing " Good night» - Καληνύχτα (kalinichta).

3. Τι κάνεις / κάνετε (ti kanis / kanete) - Literally, these words of the Greek language are translated as “what you do / do”. But in everyday life it means "how are you" (you / you). With the same meaning, you can use the phrase:

Πως είσαι / είστε (pos. Ise / pos. Iste) - how are you / how are you.

You can answer the question "how are you" in different ways:

4. Μια χαρά (mya hara) or καλά (kalA), which means "good";

Another option: πολύ καλά (poly kala) - very good.

5. Έτσι κι έτσι (Etsy k'Etsy) - so-so.

Acquaintance:

You can find out the name of the interlocutor using the following phrases:

6. Πως σε λένε; (pos se lene) - what is your name?

Πως Σας λένε; (pos sas lene) - what is your name?

You can answer this like this:

Με λένε…… (me lene) - my name is (name)

After the exchange of names, it is customary to say:

7. Χαίρω πολύ (hero poly) or χαίρομαι (herome) - - glad to meet you.

The Greeks really appreciate it when a tourist, at the very least, tries to speak their language

Polite words:

8. Ευχαριστώ (eucharistO) - thank you;

9. Παρακαλώ (parakalO) - please;

10. Τίποτα (tipota) - nothing, nothing;

11. Δεν πειράζει (zen pirazi) [δen pirazi] – no big deal;

12.Καλώς όρισες (kalOs Orises) - welcome (you);

Καλώς ορίσατε (kalos orIsate) - welcome (you);

13. Εντάξει (endAxi) - good, ok;

The words "yes" and "no" in Greek are different from the usual no, yes or si, etc. We are used to the fact that the negative word begins with the letter “n”, but in Greek the opposite is true - the word “yes” begins with the letter “n”:

14. Ναι (nE) - yes

Όχι (Ohy) - no

Words for market and shop

15. Θέλω (sElo) [θelo] - I want;

16. Ορίστε (orIste) - here you are, similar to the English here you are (for example, they give you change and say oρίστε or brought and say oρίστε). When you give money, you can also say (here you are) oρίστε). This is also relevant as a reaction to someone calling you by name or when answering a call instead of “Hello”.

17. Πόσο κάνει (poso kani) - how much does it cost;

18. Ακριβό (akrivo) - expensive;

19. Φτηνό (ftinO) - cheap;

20. Τον λογαριασμό παρακαλώ (tone logariismo parakalO) - “count, please”;

21. Που είναι…….; (pu Ying) – where is……?

22. Αριστερά (aristerA) - left, left;

23. Δεξιά (dexА) [δeksia] – to the right, to the right;

24. Το ΚΤΕΛ (that KTEL) - this abbreviation is the name of the Greek bus operator, but everyone understands it as "bus station";

25. Το αεροδρόμειο (airfield Omio) - airport;

26. Σιδηροδρομικός σταθμός (sidirodromikOs stasmOs) - railway station;

27. Καταλαβαίνω (katalavEno) - I understand;

Δεν καταλαβαίνω (zen katalaveno) [δen katalaveno] - I don't understand;

28. Ξέρω (ksEro) - I know;

Δεν ξέρω (zen ksEro) [δen ksero] - I don't know;

And finally congratulations:

29. Χρόνια πολλά (hronya pollA) - so you can congratulate on any holiday: birthday, angel's day, etc. Literally, it means "long years".

30. Στην υγεία μας (stin Ya mas) is a toast that means "to our health."

I hope these words will help you in your journey and communication with the Greeks. I am grateful to Anya, our Greek teacher, for her help in writing the material and I remind you that since 2010, on Grekoblog, Anya has been working with everyone who wants to learn from scratch or improve their level of Greek. We wrote in more detail about language lessons via Skype in articles and.

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If you are going to go to Greece and do not want to be completely dependent on a Russian-speaking guide, then you need to know English at least at an intermediate level. And if you want to try to travel around Greece on your own, visiting non-tourist places, if you want to feel the real Greece in the countryside and on the sea coast, then here you need to learn Greek at least at the very initial level and learn how to read at least the simplest inscriptions.

By the way, you probably remember some letters of the Greek language from school, from the lessons of physics or mathematics, where “alphas”, “nu”, “pi” and “omegas” denoted different physical and mathematical quantities.

Greek: alphabet, pronunciation

For a Russian-speaking person, Greek is quite simple to read, the eye gets used to writing letters quite easily, and the brain easily begins to put letters into words. The thing is that Slavic writing originates precisely from Byzantium, from the Greek language, so some letters are very similar to Russian ones. In addition, in Greece they both hear and write, so, knowing the alphabet and some simple words and phrases, you will already be able to communicate and read the inscriptions.

The Greek alphabet consists of 24 letters, the table below shows the names of the letters and how they are read:

The purpose of some establishments can be identified by identification pictures. Such pictures on shop windows or a sign indicate hairdressers, cafes, toilets. By the way, often in Greece the toilet is indicated in international format— WC.

We will present the main phrases in Greek for oral communication immediately in the form of transcription (pronunciation).

In principle, both hotels and restaurants in Greece will understand you, even if you contact them on English language. And in many hotels there are Russian-speaking staff. But even if you learn at least a few words and phrases in Greek (greeting, thank you, please) and use them in communication with the locals, you will give them great pleasure. And as a result, the already hospitable Greeks will become even more welcoming and friendly to you.

All inclusive in Greece

Some Greek hotels have an all-inclusive system. Unlike Turkey and Egypt, where All inclusive is available in most hotels, not all Greek hoteliers prefer to implement it at home. Meanwhile, this type of recreation is very beneficial for a large number tourists. This includes three buffet meals a day on site, and an excellent selection of drinks.

Family camp in Greece

Every parent wants to give their child all the best, to make childhood the best. Therefore, there is nothing surprising in the fact that the topic of family vacations is often raised. This is a camp for families who want to spend vacations and holidays as useful, interesting, creative as possible, and at the same time have a good rest from the bustle of the city, fatigue and stress. Devote all the time to communicate with children, spouse, yourself.

Greece or Hellas. Greeks or Hellenes

Economic Thought of Ancient Greece

Greek saffron - the gold of the Greek land

Saffron is the most expensive herbal spice in the world, which is obtained from the pollen and stigmas of the plant of the same name. According to botanists, it is not found in the wild in nature, because it has been cultivated since the beginning of the cultural history of mankind. The homeland of the plant is Western and Asia Minor, and India. Sometimes marigold pollen is passed off as a spice called saffron, which also has flavoring and coloring properties, but is much less valued.