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[kokkina-avga]

on hiatus!

hey, i'm zip and welcome to my greek langblr!

about me:

i’m a greek american trying to learn greek and connect more with my culture

about this blog:

i hope to one day run this blog in all greek

for now, it'll be a lot of english and language learning resources

credit:

pfp

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blog status:

on hiatus rn, but i'm hoping to be more active soon!

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[kokkina-avga]

μια φράση μια ημέρα | παρασκευή, η τρίτη από ιανουάριος

things i did to learn greek today:

one duolingo lesson (3-day streak)

wrote this post

asked my mom questions

νέες λέχεις (new words):

the listed words are from a duolingo lesson. the greek words in this post that aren't on the list are from wordreference.com's english-greek dictionary

η αράχνη - the spider

ο πελεκάνος - the pelican

το ποντίκι - the mouse

η αρκούδα - the bear

ζώο - animal

το καβούρι - the crab

το κουτάβι - the puppy

καταοικίδιο - pet

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[liquidstar]

People will tag fucking anything related to Greece as mythology. They'll literally see pictures of pillars and be like "#Greek Mythology" malaka I promise the pillars are from real life

[sebslanguageblog]

@ Greek learners, especially if you're learning on your own without a teacher

check out Unlocking Greek Potential

it's a podcast by Linguatree and her student

the method of teaching is reminiscent of Language Transfer but more engaging for listeners and IMO more interesting

[gemsofgreece]

Newly exhibited photos from the project Ένδυμα Ψυχής - Raiment of the Soul,  collaboration of photographer Vangelis Kyris and Bulgarian embroidery artist Anatoli Georgiev who present Greek traditional costumes, which are exhibits of the National Historical Museum of Greece. The exhibition is currently hosted in the Acropolis Museum, until March.

Attire of King Otto of Greece, 19th century.

Dress from Nisyros island, 19th century.

Dress from Zakynthos (Zante) island, 18th century.

Attire of Dimitris Mavromichalis, aide-de-camp of King Otto.

Attire of Stavros Tournikiotis, 19th century.

Urban dress of Old Athens, 18th century.

Dress from Zagori, 19th century.

Urban attire, 19th century.

See more photos of the project  x, x, x and x. 

[auressea]

Ok wow! these portraits are amazing. and textile archaeology from primary sources is my jam!

can we just.. marvel and wonder at the sheer volume of fabric in the mens under-dresses? the number of tucks/pleats in those long garments? THE LAYERS?

Is it fine Cotton or Linen?

[gemsofgreece]

@auressea Glad you brought that up. The fabric is cotton as it was first a peasant’s clothing but brand new special ones might also be made of linen.

There is this most likely urban legend that some warriors of the Greek independence wore fustanellas with 400 pleats in order to symbolise 400 years of the Ottoman occupation. This is in my opinion bs because not all regions of Greece were conquered for the same amount of time, let alone the full 400 years. However, honouring this legend, the Greek presidential guard nowadays does indeed wear fustanellas with 400 pleats. I also believe that even in the past, the Greek fustanella might have been a little more heavily pleated than fustanellas of other nations, based on some symbolism like that. There is a fustanella of a fighter found that had exactly 200 pleats. But the number 400 is excessive for the means of the time and also is unlikely for the reason I explained above.

[kokkina-avga]

ημερολόγιο - 1/1/23

σήμερα, κάθισα στον καναπές γατί είμαι άρρωστος ;-;

[kelseythelinguist-deactivated20]

Arts | Culture, Business | Economics, Health, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Nanotechnology - Nanomedicine, Professional Development | Coachi

For anyone looking to improve their Greek or Greek cultural studies, the University of Athens has many online courses in English by local professors. Tagging @gemsofgreece and @alatismeni-theitsa in case your non-Greek followers are interested.

[salvadorbonaparte]

Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books  that I try to update regularly 

[salvadorbonaparte]

**UPDATE**

I have restructured the folders to make them easier to use and managed to add almost all languages requested and then some

Please let me know any further suggestions

[salvadorbonaparte]

[clockworktardis]

….holy shit. You found the holy grail.

[kittydesade]

….. is this a DIFFERENT person keeping gigabytes worth of language books on google drive? Holy crap.

[wyvyrn]

This. This here. Is why I love Tumblr.❤️❤️❤️

[bard-llama]

Update from OP:

UPDATE because apparently not everyone has seen this yet the new and improved version of this is a MEGA folder: https://mega.nz/folder/kQBXHKwA#-osWRLNCXAsd62ln8wKa8w

2411 files and 819 subfolders

[kokkina-avga]

main

star trek

star wars

art

the sims 4

skyrim/wizard stuff

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[kokkina-avga]

general:

i'm not anticipating anything nsfw on here, but if it pops up, it'll be tagged as #nsft (minors dni)

potentially triggering content will be tagged as #cw trigger

pls lmk if i ever miss a tag, you want something specific tagged, etc.

greek language:

αναφορά - reference

πολιτισμός - culture

λεξιλόγιο - words

γραμματική - grammar

other:

μπλε! - blue!

ζίπ μιλάει - zip quips

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[kokkina-avga]

I posted 34 times in 2022

That's 34 more posts than 2021!

15 posts created (44%)

19 posts reblogged (56%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@/greekstuff

@/poppyvslanguages

@/imstudyingok

@/pibgeonart

@/cutemurderousbears

I tagged 25 of my posts in 2022

Only 26% of my posts had no tags

#ζίπ μιλάει - 12 posts

#λεξιλόγιο - 3 posts

#ζίπ διαβάσει θεία charlotte - 2 posts

#ζίπ διαβάσει πλήρης ελληνικά - 2 posts

#γραμματική - 2 posts

#επιτεύγματα - 2 posts

#if that makes sense - 1 post

#i just feel very isolated and lonely due to many unique personal circumstances - 1 post

#like right now - 1 post

#how am i meant to know which spelling is right - 1 post

Longest Tag: 78 characters

#i just feel very isolated and lonely due to many unique personal circumstances

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

i’m also going to use “complete greek (teach yourself)” on top of my duolingo lessons. 

i’ll probably post notes from here as i’m pretty confident the information will be legit. those posts will be tagged as ‘ζίπ διαβάσει πλήρης ελληνικά’, ‘γραμματική’, and/or ‘λεξιλόγιο’

0 notes - Posted June 13, 2022

#4

i’ve decided to begin my greek culture/history journey with “aunt charlotte’s stories of greek history.” it seems like a good mix of ancient and modern history as it gets up to 1875, which is a lot better than most greek history books i’ve come across. 

i’m going to take notes on it but i don’t know if i’ll post any of the info as i’m hesitant to learn/teach history from one source, lmao.

maybe after i read more than one history book i’ll make history posts

either away, anything related to this book will be tagged ‘ζίπ διαβάσει θεία charlotte’ and ‘ιστορία’ 

0 notes - Posted June 13, 2022

#3

i love ξ. like, what a funky little guy. excellent shape. i can’t write it but i sure do love looking at it.

0 notes - Posted June 11, 2022

#2

πέμπτη, 9 ιούνηος

έκανα το πλυντήριό μου και έπαιξα minecraft.

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thursday, june 9th

i did my laundry and played minecraft.

0 notes - Posted June 10, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

γειά σου, είμαι ζίπ (they/them, αυτός/αυτόν) and welcome to my greek langblr! 

about me:

i’m a third generation greek american trying to learn greek

my goal is to run this blog entirely in greek

i’m studying with duolingo, textbooks, and my mom

about this blog:

i mainly post about the following:

greek grammar and vocab

εκπλήρωση (accomplishments of my day, written in greek)

my language skills aren’t very good yet so most of the blog is written in english but i try to use greek where i can

other blogs:

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star trek

star wars

credit:

my pfp is from potato-lord-but-not’s picrew

1 note - Posted June 13, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

[gemsofgreece]

“Helen of Greece (1896 - 1982), the eldest and favorite child of her father King Constantine of Greece, wearing the traditional dress of Macedonia, the region won back from the Turks by her father.”

Photo and commentary taken from Prince Michael’s chronicles blog.

[childweanedonpoison]

english and american #girlboss ya authors be like “yaaasss let’s reclaim greek mythology!!!” babygirl i know the british museum makes it confusing for you but it was never yours in the first place 😭

[halcynth]

“I am not ‘half Japanese’ and ‘half Lithuanian Jewish.“ When I’m singing a Japanese folk song, I don’t sing with half my voice, but with my whole voice. When I’m taping together my grandparents’ Jewish marriage contract, worn by time but still resilient, it’s not half of my heart that is moved, but my whole heart. I am complete, and I embody layers of identities that belong together. I am made of layers, not fractions.”

— Yumi Tomsha

[blue-ice-veins]

sharpied seashells by  Barbara Moloney Callen

[kokkina-avga]

sometimes, i have very complicated feelings about being greek

[kokkina-avga]

sometimes i think about the fact that i never got the chance to wear traditional greek clothing from my family's region because i'm queer. like, i couldn't stand the thought of dressing feminine, so i said no, and they couldn't stand the thought of me dressing masculine, so they told me no.

and now, i will likely never get the chance to wear traditional clothing and that makes me really sad.