Easy Reader In Greek;
“Lydia: A summer in Greece!”

Read and listen to a Greek story, written for Beginner 2 level.

This story is written by the Omilo teachers  Τέρψη Γαβαλά and Κωνσταντίνος Οικονόμου, (in the photo above) and includes the Audio-files, as well as a vocabulary list in English.

Are you in the early stages of learning Greek or do you just want to brush up on your colloquial Greek? Do you feel like having a break from studying Greek formally with course or grammar books? Then here is the book you are looking for! A real story, which will give you the opportunity to learn or revise Greek in a relaxing and pleasant way!

The main character of the story is Lydia, a Greek–American woman. She lives in New York and works as a journalist for a Greek newspaper. She often travels to Greece to cover different stories. On one of her trips to Athens, she meets a man, Orestis, on the plane. He volunteers to help her with an article she is writing about Athens’ neighborhoods. After they spend some time together in the Greek capital, Orestis asks Lydia to join him on a business trip to the island of Syros, in the Cyclades. The beautiful island of the Aegean Sea becomes the setting for a series of unexpected events. And secrets are about to be revealed…

The Easy reader will help you:

• Improve your Greek reading and listening skills
• Build or revise your Greek vocabulary gradually and in a natural way

The book features:

• Plenty of dialogues covering a great variety of everyday topics, such as:
Introducing myself / Talking about my family / Ordering in a coffee–shop or a tavern / Arranging a meeting with friends / Asking for or Giving directions / Hobbies / Shopping / Travelling / Describing a city / Clothes, etc.
• Short, easily–manageable chapters
• Illustrations at the start of each chapter that show the reader clearly the essential elements of the story which follows
• Footnotes with explanations of words in Greek
• Footnotes with synonyms of words
• Footnotes with the Present Tense of verbs found in the text in other tenses
• An Audio with all of the story, recorded by native Greek Speakers
• A selected vocabulary from each chapter translated into English

The book Lydia: A summer in Greece! can be used either in the classroom as supplementary material or for self–study.

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VOCABULARY

The Easy reader comes with an English vocabulary list .
However, the vocabulary is also available with extra eBooks for French, German and Turkish :
Click here for the Vocabulary in French 
( also more info in French at
https://vivreathenes.com/livre-pour-apprendre-le-grec.html)

Click here for the Vocabulary in German

Click here for the Vocabulary in Turkish

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ALSO AVAILABLE :

A.  Companion Workbook to the Greek Easy Reader

The workbook, exactly like the easy reader, consists of 12 units. Each unit has 6 exercises

Click below to read all the detailed info about the companion workbook

B.  71 everyday Greek verbs in the Present, Future, and Past Tenses.

Learn the verbs used in this story in the present, future and past tense
You can use this verb book by itself, but you can also use it in combination with the Easy Reader ‘Lydia – A summer in Greece!

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The “Lydia Package”

If you want to buy the total Lydia package, with reduction, then click here;
https://masaresi.com/product/special-offer-lydia-ebook-package/

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The MP3 Audio-book (included)

Listen to the story, recorded by native Greek speakers, and improve your listening skills.
Original melodies for the story were composed by talented musician Issidoros Papadakis. In addition, two great musicians, the bouzouki master Petros Kapellas and Yannis Varthalitis (guitar), played a taqsim (a piece of improvised folk music) that was recorded on the island of Syros – right next to the sea – and then included in the story.

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Credits

Authors: Κωνσταντίνος Οικονόμου – Τέρψη Γαβαλά
Illustrations – Book design: David Hitch
Music: Ισίδωρος Παπαδάκης

Many special thanks to
Omilo colleague Εύα Χριστοδούλου, for her main role as Lydia in the Audio recordings,
as well as for the musicians Issidoros Papadakis and Petros Kapellas.

Audio main roles performed by :

Εύα Χριστοδούλου. : Lydia
Κωνσταντίνος Οικονόμου : Orestis

The authors would also like to sincerely thank everybody who participated in the recording of the story – technicians at Artracks Recording Studios in Athens and readers – for their great enthusiasm, patience and commitment,
as well as Ελένη Καλκάκου, Νόρα Καραβά, Βάσω Κασβίκη, Σόνια Λούη,  Γιώργος Ρετσινάς, Κωνσταντίνος Σφετσιώρης

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