In my experience Greek is very difficult, how do you teach it?

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I am very happy to see people interested in learning Greek, although many consider it a difficult language. For years now this metaphor "It's all Greek to me" has come to mean just that, but I wished some could also see its literal meaning and find more reasons to learn it. It is very important to acknowledge that what is difficult for some, does not mean it is difficult for all. As a student of 3 foreign languages and as a teacher, I do not believe some are born to be better in languages and some not. I do believe that it depends on how willing you are to learn, how much time you devote for a language and in some cases it would as well depend on the influences you get from your language teacher/tutor. But of course we can say that Greek is more difficult than English, that French is more difficult than English and Chinese is more difficult than Greek. To define difficulty, it would also depend on whether your native and the foreign language share similarities in structure, grammar or sound. There is certainly a difficulty in Greek. It is a language spoken for thousands of years and it has undergone a lot of changes. Some old words (from katharevusa) are still used today (in demotic Greek) and so speech aspects can vary sometimes. The verbs in Greek are conjugated. This means that the verb changes form depending on the person. The same happens to verbs in French, but not to verbs in English. However, this is not a reason to put us off from learning. If there are differences in languages, it just means that there is extra effort to be made. In other case, some students may find it difficult to learn the grammar rules and the structure of the sentences in Greek and this is purely because they lack grammatical and syntactical understanding of their own language. Therefore,  students who have not learned their language through analysis or explanation of its grammar and structure, are more likely to find it more difficult than others. However, through a lot of practice and the right teaching aproach, one can learn not only the Greek language, but also more about their native one. Greek is a logical language and worth learning, not only for personal or business reasons. Some, I hope, will find Greek fun to learn and when they learn it, but when they do, they may still say " It's all Greek to me".