Modern Greek

I would have started a separate blog for this, but it seemed silly to start a new blog when it is still Greek. I love learning languages, as you can probably tell,  and I love culture, and experiencing culture,etc. hence my International Studies degree. anyways, as much as I am looking forward to being able to read the NT in its original Greek(probably on my death bead-its so hard!) it is a dead form of Greek that Greeks don't speak anymore and the pronunciations are guesses. very educated, highly intelligent, researched guesses, but guesses nevertheless. so I cannot say with a clean conscience that I now Greek. so I decided to learn modern Greek on top of biblical Greek. this way, I can say, unlike bible majors, that I speak Greek and I will be able to have conversations in the language I spent years learning. I currently have 3 Greek language apps on my Itouch(along with 3 French, 3 Italian, and 3 Sign Language apps-all in separate folders-such a brilliant feature of the Itouch!) and Pimsleurs Conversational Modern Greek. such a good program- its all audio and its scientific in nature, and they go with what research says works best for language. research says the brain gets language as speech, as sounds, so its all audio, and they do a lot of repetition, based on what timing repetition works best with. so at first they ask you something, and you learn it, and they they move on to a new thing and they just when your forgetting that first thing, they ask it of you again, and so on and so on. its so good! its conversations, and its native speakers that speak. its so good! I also have the pimsleur Italian. plus the lessons are only 30 minutes, so that works really well for learning, and they actually suggest that if you learn 80% of the lesson, you can move on to the next one because its not realistic to expect to learn it 100%, and they review in the other lesson. I love it!