Οn the occasion of today’s celebrations for the Three Holy Hierarchs, protectors of education and letters, the Greek language is being praised as a key component of the cultural heritage and identity carried by Greek migrants around the world. Migrants in the US have ranked the teaching of the Greek language as one of their [...]
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Greek-Born Penny Panayiosouli Teaching Greek in the Bronx
News of a teacher working in a school of ill fame in a degraded US neighborhood is like watching Michelle Pfeiffer starring in “Dangerous Minds”. This time it is a Greek born teacher, who is not simply teaching in a Bronx school but has managed to introduce and include the Greek language as the official [...]
Hellenic Quest is a Hoax and Apple doesn’t know about it
Hellenic Quest is not an e-learning program of ancient Greek distributed throughout the whole world by CNN as it has been written around the web. The author of an article that was spread around the internet had described the project as “a program destined for Spanish and English speaking people that want to learn Greek.” The [...]
Corrupting Two Languages at Once
Do you fit into the category of hyphenated Americans who (1) learned the foreign words for everyday objects before you learned the English words for them? (2) noticed that an entire collection of English words managed to creep into the foreign language your parents spoke? As Greek-American children, we heard our parents use words for [...]
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05 / 23 Greek Relief from Archaeological Museum of Athens Goes on View At Getty Villa
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05 / 23 2012 Global Summit of Women to Take Place in Athens
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05 / 23 Τsantes Family Donates $100,000 in Support of Hellenic Studies Program
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05 / 23 George Tsetsekos to Step Down as Dean of LeBow College
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05 / 22 Campaign Calls on Greeks Outside of the Country to Support Their Homeland
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07 / 23 St. Nicholas of Manhattan in Ruins while Mosque Rises
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08 / 12 John Thomas Financial CEO Thomas Belesis Is Optimistic @FoxBusiness
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11 / 27 Greek American Pihakis Busted by Feds for $5.8 Million
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08 / 03 George Demos Tells Fox News We Must Rebuild St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church at Ground Zero
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12 / 27 Greek Orthodox Community of America Renounced Anti-Semitic Statements by Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus
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