Modern Greek Language - Modern Greek Language

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Εξαιρετικό σημείο για ατομική βόλτα η μαζί με οικόσιτο σκύλο ! Όσοι έχουμε τετράποδους ?φίλους μαζί μας δεν ξεχνάμε τα σακουλάκια μας ! Ο χώρος έχει κάδους !

Ωραίο και προσεγμένο κτίριο. Προφανώς αυτό οφείλεται στο ότι είναι σχετικά νεόκτιστο. Εχει και το μοντέρνο στοιχείο μέσα στην αρχιτεκτονική του με την γυάλινη οροφή. Μικρές σχετικά αίθουσες που αναβαθμίζονται βέβαια συνέχεια και προορίζονται για μαθήματα ελληνικών σε αλλοδαπούς.

best place to learn Greek Language

very nice school

Not bad, but the best in athens

Google reviews of this institution concern the building, not the courses. This review is of the introductory Greek course for foreigners (Greek A). Please note other levels may bring a much different experience. This is the cheapest course in Greek you can find. It's at a public university, and at a bit over €500 for 3 hours daily (I'm enrolled in the 6 month course), you pay less than 2 euros an hour, a tenth of comparable tuitions. But caveat emptor. You get what you pay for and if you expect university level rigor and discipline, think again.. Our class began with 18 students. Attrition has brought this down to an average of 12-14 people, still vastly too large a number to enable conversation. We learn Greek, but barely speak it. This doesn't serve us well in the wild. By far the biggest complaint is the quality and dedication of a too-significant number of fellow students. The teachers are excellent - really. But many students are extremely young (17 - 19) and lack university experience. They seem incapable of self-directed study or are possibly unmotivated to learn Greek (Daddy makes them come?). Three months into a six month course, too many of my classmates still barely read Greek. The lack of comprehension of grammar and vocabulary is close to 100 percent. This holds the rest of us back tremendously. So does the fact that attendance is lax, as is punctuality. Students miss days of class, then show up and ask questions because they don't understand what we're doing (duh). Too often these questions are addressed by the teachers, forcing other students to sit through a review of material rather than progress. Diligent students are penalized for what we signed up for: attending class and studying. Roughly half the class trickles in up to an hour late every day. Others are on their phones, playing Candy Crush or browsing Instagram. More than once, students have answered ringing cell phones in class. Complaints to the teachers and administration about the lack of discipline and expectations (no syllabus, no stated course goals, and especially the problem of accommodating truant students at the expense of everyone else) are met with a shrug and, "Well, they paid too." Sure they did. But learning a new language requires a commitment of time, study, and discipline, not just money. One fellow student comes once per week, at best. Another maybe twice a month. It's beyond insane to think these people can keep up (they can't), but they're allowed to participate when they grace us with their presence. There's no remedial program or Plan B for the handful of students who haven't advanced from Day One, those still struggling with the alphabet. They're a drag on everyone's patience, progress, and attention. It's doesn't help them, or other students, to keep them in a program lightyears beyond their capabilities. It's not all lows. The teachers really are very good (we have three in a 5 day week). Occasionally you'll see the cracks in their demeanor - they're as frustrated with the shitshow elements of this program as are many of my fellow students. The University is strapped for cash (as are all Greek public institutions). This program, and it's a big one, attracts hundreds of foreign students, each one paying tuition, whereas Greeks attend University at no cost. This program likely helps keep the lights on across the entire system. But this means the goal is quantity, not quality. There's none of the discipline or rigor one expects from a university level academic program. Instead, we're the University of Athens' ATM.

The system of electronic registration for courses works very poorly.