Today in class we had a speaker, it was Maria Hnaraki’s aunt Natassa, full name Anastasia. She is a school teacher here in Crete. She teaches from ages fifteen to eighteen years old. Her discussion today was on the Greek education system. She was very kind to talk to and a very knowledgeable woman.
What I found interesting was that you can not learn another language in school. You have to go outside of the school where there are places that offer other languages. This includes English also having to be taught outside of school. We talked about the Greek language and how we thought at times it sounds very poetic and other times it sounds very pleasant or very intense. There are times we aren’t sure if people are yelling at each other or just discussing to each other.
Her choice to learn English was when she was very young and American people came from USA and stayed at the base and came and rented houses in Heraklion. When she first her English she was fascinated to hear it. Her major challenges to learn English and for also other people is pronunciation, idioms, and some parts of grammar.
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