Watching Greek TV and Movies to Improve Your Conversation Skills

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While learning Greek, it stands to reason that you’ll want to improve your conversational skills. Being able to converse in another language requires that you are not only able to speak and express the things that you want, but also understand when other people are speaking to you. While learning a language, you may find that it can be challenging to get the knack for this, especially since being able to converse seems to be the last skill to develop. However, there are ways to speed the process along.

What is Needed to Excel at Greek Conversations

Being able to converse is also about more than asking a question and understanding the answer. It’s also about more than just making small talk with someone while you are visiting Greece. Developing conversational skills in Greek requires a little bit more than just memorizing vocabulary lists or learning about the grammar. Here’s a look at some of the additional skills that are needed:

• Quickly understand what the other person is saying.
• Rapidly form a response that makes sense with the conversation.
• Use any relevant filler words with ease – these are words used to fill space or accentuate a point.
• Know colloquial expressions and use them accurately.

This isn’t a complete list, but it does illustrate that there is a lot that needs to be developed in order to get better at conversing in Greek.

Why Watching Television and Movies Helps Improve Language

One of the things that you might notice as you learn Greek is that when you are exposed to certain words or phrases, you are more likely to remember them if you’ve used them or if you see them being used in any capacity. If you want to become better at conversational Greek, you should observe as many Greek conversations as possible. What better way is there to do this than to watch television or movies in the Greek language?

By doing this, you will gain first hand knowledge of how real Greek conversations are structured. By repeat exposure, you will begin to learn new words and phrases. It will also help your pronunciation and you’ll be able to sound more like a native speaker. It doesn’t matter what you watch, just make sure that it isn’t the news because this is a different type of speaking and listening than what you are looking for. Greek sitcoms and movies are ideal.

Make it a point to watch as much as you can. Before long, you will notice that your Greek has improved without you really doing much. Feel free to look up any words you don’t know. However, this isn’t a requirement.

The Learn Greek section on GreekBoston.com was written by Greeks to help people understand the conversational basics of the Greek language. This article is not a substitute for a professional Greek learning program, but a helpful resource for people wanting to learn simple communication in Greek.

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