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Learning Greek, speaking Cypriot: what’s wrong with a classroom in dialect?

The Cypriot dialect has travelled a long way from the margins. Once confined to casual conversations and jokes among friends, it is now breaking into public life, heard in radio ads, TV sketches, and ...
Greek City Times

Strong Greek Language Retention in Australia

A new report reveals Australia leads the US and Canada in Greek language retention among the diaspora, with 21% of third-generation Greek Australians still using the language, thanks to strong ...
Cyprus Mail

First-ever language app for Cypriot Greek launched

The first mobile language app dedicated entirely to Cypriot Greek, Cyprusays, was launched on Thursday, offering users around the world the chance to learn and speak this distinctive Mediterranean ...
Neos Kosmos

Australia to recognise World Greek Language Day at UNESCO General Conference

Australia will officially recognise World Greek Language Day during the upcoming UNESCO General Conference, in a move hailed as a significant milestone for the Greek Australian community and for ...
Greek City Times

Australia Formally Recognizes World Greek Language Day

A milestone for global Hellenism was announced in Perth — the final stop of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ioannis Loverdos’ official tour of Australia and New Zealand — as the Australian ...
Neos Kosmos

First intensive online summer school for Greek language teachers in Australia

For the first time in Australia, an intensive online summer training program is being organised for teachers of the Greek diaspora who teach Greek as a second or foreign language. The program will ...
protothema.gr

Heraclius: The Byzantine emperor who crushed the Persians and established Greek as the official language

For more than a thousand years, the main enemy of the Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines in the East were the Persians. The final clash between the Byzantines and the Persians took place during the reign ...