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Unlocking Greek Potential is a complete guide to learning Greek for beginners. It's guided by Yiuli a native Greek teacher and Ellis who is learning Greek. Yiuli will teach Greek to Ellis, and you can learn alongside her! Our goal is to teach Greek as effectively as possible. We focus on the most important words so that you can form sentences as quickly as possible. Anyone who has learned the Greek alphabet can listen to it. A new episode comes out every Friday.

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Unlocking Greek Potential is a complete guide to learning Greek for beginners. It's guided by Yiuli a native Greek teacher and Ellis who is learning Greek. Yiuli will teach Greek to Ellis, and you can learn alongside her! Our goal is to teach Greek as effectively as possible. We focus on the most important words so that you can form sentences as quickly as possible. Anyone who has learned the Greek alphabet can listen to it. A new episode comes out every Friday.

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English


Episodes
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2.11 | Prepositions of place

5/10/2024
In today's episode, we're introducing prepositions of place. You've probably encountered these words before—like "under," "on top of," "next to," and "in front of." Typically, they're taught using buildings as examples, but we take a different approach 🐈 Vocabulary If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:18:41

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2.10 | Rehearsal quiz + story

5/3/2024
In this episode we are going to rehearse everything we've learned in the previous episodes. We will also end this episode with a story in Greek that Ellis is going to read to you If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:18:45

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2.09 | Agreeing and Disagreeing

4/26/2024
In today's episode, we will learn how to agree and disagree correctly with affirmative and negative statements. But first, let's go over the verb "μου αρέσει" μου αρέσει σου αρέσει της/του/ αρέσει μας αρέσει σας αρέσει τους αρέσει Useful phrases: If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:19:43

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2.08 | Subjunctive

4/19/2024
Don't let the title intimidate you, this is the episode in which a lot of things are going to make sense! The subjunctive tense in Greek is one that Ellis was extremely happy with. A lot of the questions she had before got answered with this tense. As always, we will try to teach it to you in a simple way. We'll make a lot of example sentences, and explain you the difference between the subjunctive simple and continuous. If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:19:37

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2.07 | Going shopping

4/12/2024
In today's episode, we will learn some valuable verbs and phrases regarding shopping. Useful vocabulary Useful phrases If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:21:19

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2.06 | Daily routine - words of frequency

4/5/2024
This episode is going to be a bit different! We are going to speak a lot of Greek. We'll ask each a lot of questions in Greek, while we teach you the words of frequency. We'll explain and analyse all the sentences together. Useful vocabulary: - πάντα - ποτέ - σχεδον ποτέ - σπάνια - καμιά φορά. μερικές φορές. - καθε μέρα - συχνά - φορές - συνήθως - εξαρτάται - το ίδιο - έχω ρεπό If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:22:34

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2.05 | Future tense - part 2

3/29/2024
In this episode we're going to teach you group B of the future tense. You will learn a lot of new verbs too, and we're going to create Greek sentences together! -ήσω -άσω irregular verbs If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:19:24

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2.04 | Future tense - part 1

3/22/2024
In this episode we're going to teach you group A of the future tense. You will learn a lot of new verbs too, and we're going to create Greek sentences together! Useful vocabulary: - το μέλλον γυρίζω -> θα γυρίσω αρχίζω -> θα αρχίσω αγοράζω -> θα αροράσω πληρώνω -> θα πληρώσω κλείνω -> θα κλείσω μαγειρεύω -> θα μαγειρέψω δουλεύω -> θα δουλέψω πιστεύω -> θα πιστέψω γράφω -> θα γράψω κόβω > θα κόψω ανοίγω - θα ανοίξω προσέχω - προσέξω φτιάχνω - θα φτιάξω If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:19:33

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2.03 | Speaking Greek

3/15/2024
In today's episode, we will teach you useful vocabulary to help you confidently speak Greek. Useful Vocabulary: Bonus: here's also the popular Greek song το λάθος If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:18:27

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2.02 | Surviving an online Greek lesson

3/8/2024
In today's episode, we're going to teach you some useful phrases when you are having an online lesson in Greek. We will teach you the following phrases: If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:20:26

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2.01 | The influence of Greek

3/1/2024
We are finally back with our podcast! For the past few months, we have tried to find ways to make this experience even more student-friendly for all of you guys! we created ~ a website! Yes, that’s right! A brand new website where you can listen to the entire first season and all the new episodes we will release. www.unlockinggreekpotential.com ~ a transcript! Now, you can find all the valuable vocabulary with its translation, lesson notes, and grammar inside, all in one place! Having said all of these, let's move on to today's episode: Greeks were obsessed with saying things as shortly as possible. This idea manifests itself not only in grammar but also in vocabulary. Greeks often use a single word to describe feelings or basic daily needs. useful vocabulary If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:17:45

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Bonus episode | Christmas

12/15/2023
Right before Christmas, we made one more episode to teach you festive words! You will learn the following words: Greek Christmas Carols We wish you all καλά Χριστούγεννα και καλή Πρωτοχρονιά! We will be back for season 2 in 2024! If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:25:32

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1.25 | An interesting story in Greek

12/8/2023
We are already in episode 25! Can you believe it? You've learned so many things this year: You can talk about yourself, your feelings, your job, and your interests. You can form questions and negative sentences, express likes and dislikes, and give your opinion. We are so proud of you! You deserve a vast BRAVO for your progress this year! This is our last episode for 2023, and what's a better way than a story? We use words you are already familiar with from the previous episodes, so listen carefully and try to guess who Luna is. (Luna is the narrator.) New Vocabulary: If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:14:13

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1.24 | Expressing opinion

12/1/2023
In today's episode we will teach you how to express your opinion in Greek. You will learn the following phrases: If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:26:06

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1.23 | Expressing emotions

11/24/2023
Today's episode is devoted to emotions and feelings. We will learn helpful vocabulary to help you express your feelings in Greek. Also, here's a video in slow Greek from Yiuli's channel, which uses simple examples to help you comprehend the words. Vocabulary: If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:22:42

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1.22 | Describing someone

11/17/2023
In this episode you will learn words to describe someone. We will give you both words to describe someone physically and characteristically. You will also learn how to compare in Greek. you will learn the following words: ψηλός / -ή / ό κοντός/ -ή / ό μεγάλος/ -η / ο μικρός, -ή, -ό όμορφος, -η, -ο ευγενικός/ -ή / -ό φιλικός/ -ή / -ό έξυπνος / -ή / -ό If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:22:05

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1.21 | Asking for help

11/10/2023
Useful words & phrases for this episode: If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:21:55

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1.20 | Making plans with friends

11/3/2023
In this episode you will learn how to make plans with your friends in Greek! We will teach you the following vocabulary: If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:25:31

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1.19 | Directions

10/27/2023
In today's episode, we will learn useful vocabulary and phrases so you can start asking and giving directions. Useful vocabulary: If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:25:11

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1.18 | Ordering Food

10/20/2023
Useful Vocabulary Useful phrases If you want to maximize your Greek learning with our podcast, you can find the whole transcript of season 1 on our website. This is your all-in-one guide, featuring vocab, stories, lesson notes, and insider tips from our podcast. You can also support us by buying a coffee! Thank you for listening!

Duration:00:28:15