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Easy Greek Stories Podcast – Episode 1 + free Notebook

The “Easy Greek Stories” podcast – Episode 1

If you are at an intermediate level in Greek, then boost your Greek listening skills with the Omilo Podcast.  It also helps you learn common everyday Greek vocabulary and life situations in Greece. In this podcast you can listen to every story first at a slow reading pace, followed by the same story read at a normal Greek native speaking pace, as well as an extra vocabulary list at the end.
If you are already at a more advanced level, then also take a look at the Ultimate Greek Listening eBook

(Note: this podcast is not a Greek course and the episodes don’t follow a step-by-step grammar or difficulty sequence.)

Listen to story #1, on various Podcast channels listed below.
Το σπίτι στην παραλία

This story is about Eleni and her summer house on the island of Naxos.

Author story & script +  Notebook content & design ; Maya Andreadi
Notebook proofreading and grammar; Myrto Yfanti
narrators; Eva Christodoulou Read more

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Greek Verb – useful grammar; present and future tense + Video

Learn a Greek verb and useful grammar; How to say “I try”  in Greek?
Learn the present and future form of this verb, as well as the Imperative form.

Since it is very useful to be able to say “I try”, “I will try” or the imperative “TRY!”,  here below, we will explain the verb “Προσπαθώ”
If you prefer to watch and listen to the video first, then click here and listen to teacher Eva

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Mikis Theodorakis, The Legendary Greek Composer

Already several years have passed, without Mikis Theodorakis…

Mikis Theodorakis, the beloved and internationally known Greek composer,
whose music and political life are also well-known abroad, died on September 2nd, 2021. He was 96.

Theodorakis’ career, which started in his early years, produced a hugely varied body of work.
He has not only composed symphonic music, music for operas, ballet, chamber music, but of course a great number of Greek songs.

Apart from his musical career, he is also remembered by Greeks for his stubborn opposition to postwar regimes and dictatorships.

He will be never forgotten.

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Greek Verb “to see”, In present and future tense + Video

The Greek verb for “I see/ I watch” –  Learn the present and future form of this verb

Because this is a very useful verb used on a daily basis, here below we will explain the verb “βλέπω”
If you prefer to watch and listen to the video first, then click here and listen to teacher Terpsi

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Learn two useful, but confusing, Greek verbs: ‘παίρνω’ and ‘περνάω’

Two Greek verbs that many Beginners and even Intermediate students find quite confusing are ‘παίρνω’ and ‘περνάω or περνώ’. Apart from the slightly different spelling, the main obvious cause of this confusion is the accentuation; it’s just a twist of the accent that makes these two words sound differently.
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Greek Grammar; The Verb “I know”, In present and future tense + Video

How to say “I know” or “I know it”  in Greek.
Learn the present and future form of this verb

Since it is very useful to be able to say “I know”, “I know it” or “I do not know”, here below, we will explain the verb “ξέρω” in present and future tense
If you prefer to watch and listen to the video first, then click here and listen to teacher Terpsi

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Greek Grammar; Learn to say “I love … ” + Video | Omilo

How to say “I love …” in Greek  and useful sentences

One of those verbs you hear a lot in Greek songs, or you need when you fall in love with a Greek person,  is the verb “αγαπάω” = I love

It is a verb that we use in many everyday phrases. Below you will find some important expressions and the grammar on how to use and conjugate this verb. Let’s have a look!

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Corona Updates from Greece & A Greek Song About Staying At Home!

What a period it was! Here can read some of our Corona Updates from Greece, written between 202o and 2022 and listen to a Greek Song About… Staying At Home!

In the meantime, 2022 started with some sunny days here in Greece, as well as some snow as well…
Our daily walks in the Athens streets and parks continued, just like in 2020 and 2021. However, since now there is no corona curfew anymore and we are allowed to go further than our municipality, we can also go for daily trips towards the snowy mountains again…something which was not possible last winter.

In the meantime, the world news seems once again taken over by ‘corona’,  or “omikron”. The positive news; we are honored Greek letters are used for a pandemic :-), and the entire world gets the chance to learn the Greek alphabet. We realized many non-Greeks have no clue that the viruses are named after letters of the Greek alphabet, but fortunately, our dear students are very well aware 🙂 .
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The Omilo Greek Diary | Dialogue About Teaching Greek To Foreigners

With the Omilo Greek Diary you can listen to the Dialogue About Teaching Greek To Foreigners

Listen to Conversations and true stories in Greek, while learning a little bit of Omilo history! : )

With the extra Greek-English transcript and parallel text, which you can find under the video, you can also build your vocabulary

Introduction
Omilo was founded in 1996 and the very first Omilo Greek Language and Culture Courses took place in the village of Nea Makri, Attiki, between 1997 and 2006
Marina Braila started teaching for Omilo in 1998 till of today. Listen here to her story and impressions

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The Omilo Greek Diary | The first Greek course in Nea Makri, 1997, PART 2

With the Omilo Greek Diary you can listen to the Dialogue About Teaching the first Greek course in Nea Makri, 1997

Listen to Conversations and true stories in Greek, while learning a little bit of Omilo history! : )

With the extra Greek-English transcript and parallel text, which you can find under the video, you can also build your vocabulary

Introduction
Omilo was founded in 1996 by Maya and Dimitris Andreadis, and the very first Omilo Greek Language and Culture Course took place in the village of Nea Makri, Attiki, in July 1997.
Sophia was the first teacher at Omilo, and was teaching several courses during 1997 and 1998.

Click here to listen to the first podcast episode,  a dialogue between Dimitris and Sophia

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