Eleni Dimitriou is a philologist and the Coordinator of the “Greek at a Distance” program of the Greek Community of Melbourne ...

Regular readers of this column (or just casual glancers at my bio) know I live abroad in Cyprus, a small Greek-speaking island in the Mediterranean. That means I’ve spent the last several years trying ...

As I struggle in Alpha Mega with my Google translate app in one hand, hovering over the instructions on a tin of Mr Muscle oven cleaner in the other, I do wonder if my Greek should be better by now.

On the first day of beginner Greek class at Tarpon Springs Community School, teacher Maria Pantelis produced a four-page handout of hundreds of Greek words. The words were written in the Greek ...