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WHY TO LEARN GREEK?

• It's the base of many other languages (english, spanish, french, russian etc.), that they use over 1000 greek words: Most of them are technical and scientific terms.
• You will understand better your own language!
• It has a beautiful script and sounds very melodic
• No hard grammar
• It's a very rich language 
• Represents a great civilization who gave to whole world democracy, theatre, Olympic games, science (mathematics, astronomy, philosophy etc.)
• Greece it's one of the main touristic destinations
• Greece is one of the first countries -worldwide- in poems
• You will have the possibility to read great literature (Kavafis, Seferis, Kazantzakis, Elytis, Aristotle, Homer, Platon...) not translated but in greek and understand exactly the meaning
• It's the language of the universe!!!

WHERE IS GREEK SPOKEN?

Greek is the official language of Greece, which is also called more correct Hellenic Republic, and is also one of the official languages of the Republic of Cyprus. There are big Greek and Cypriot communities in the US, the UK, Australia, Germany, Canada, Chile, South Africa, Finland and Russia, but also in neighbouring countries, such as Albania, Bulgaria and Turkey.

The longest word in the Greek language consists of no less than 78 syllables and 171 letters and it’s every actor’s nightmare:

Λοπαδο¬τεμαχο¬σελαχο¬γαλεο¬κρανιο¬λειψανο¬δριμ¬υπο¬
τριμματο¬σιλφιο¬καραβο¬μελιτο¬κατακεχυ¬μενο¬κιχλ¬επι¬
κοσσυφο¬φαττο¬περιστερ¬αλεκτρυον¬οπτο¬κεφαλλιο¬κιγκλο¬
πελειο¬λαγῳο¬σιραιο¬βαφη¬τραγανο¬πτερύγων

[Lopatho¬temacho¬selacho¬galeo¬kranio¬leipsano¬drim¬hypo¬
trimmato¬silphio-karavo-melito¬-katakechy¬meno¬kichl¬-epi¬
kossypho¬phatto¬perister¬alektryon¬opte¬kephallio¬kigklo
¬peleio¬lagoio¬siraio¬baphe¬tragano¬pterygon]

Liddell & Scott’s lexicon translates this as:
name of a dish compounded of all kinds of dainties, fish, flesh, fowl, and sauces

It’s said to be the longest word ever to appear in literature

The ingenious mind behind its creation is Aristophanes, the ancient Greek playwright, who invented this word for his comedy Ἐκκλησιάζουσαι, [Ekklesiazousae], Assemblywomen (circa 392 BC).