How does Greek language sound to you?

[Constantine13]

Greek just sounds like nothing else to me. I'm too lazy to check, but I believe Greek is in the Centum branch if IE and actually technically grouped closer to English, not the Satem of most of Eastern Europe (like, say, Albanian). Yeah, about the English thing, I can always spot the Greek immigrant as soon as he opens his mouth.

I'm not a linguist, so I don't know the terms, but mainstream Greek seems to be missing a lot of the necessary "equipment" to speak English properly. Sh-, ch-, j-, zh-, b-, and more sounds are missing, so the Greek person struggles. If you wanna hear something really funny, ask a Greek to pronounce something like "hamburger" (KHAM-poorr-kerr).

The -aki is a diminutive, meaning "little." I've heard it's either Turkish or Venetian in origin. Any Turks or Venetians out there who can verify?

On a different note, where I live Portuguese/Brazilian people (at least not the really dark ones LOL) are often mistaken for Russian. Something about the Portuguese language...lots of "woosh" sounds.

[Pontios]

Greek sounds to me very easy to recognize.

[Incal]

When men speak it sounds like if they were making fun of something, spoken by ladies it becomes very cute. At least from a spanish speaker POV, greek is very easy to pronounce.

[Sikeliot]

The -aki is a diminutive, meaning "little." I've heard it's either Turkish or Venetian in origin. Any Turks or Venetians out there who can verify?

I doubt it's either, because in Sicily there is the ending on some surnames -aci or -ace that means the same thing (names like Gregoraci, Maniaci, Versace etc.) and it means that the surname at one point was a Greek surname ending in -aki. So it's obviously nothing recent to Greek.

[Gospodine]

It's funny because when I hear Greek being spoken, it almost sounds like an incomprehensible Spanish to me.

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[Queen B]

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The most idiotic post I have seen about Greek language .
Do you want me to make you sorry you posted this shit?

[Geni]

It's not as if Sicilians can understand ancient Greek either you moron. Greek sounds infinitely better to Albanian which sounds incredibly similar to Chechen, Armenian and other Caucasus languages. Albanian is very unpleasant language to hear.

1 Agron llakaj -o qirios haqi !
2 agim bajko -degjo mer babe ca bej une mbas buke eshte puna jem ...hahahaha

[DRUM]

If the speech comes from the background and I'm not listening it always sounds Spanish to me

[kkk77]

Greek is a mistery to me. It sounds like anything else. Even though sometimes it sound like Spanish, Italian, Slavic languages, African languages... But not in a consistent way.

Btw, it sounds like sopinha de massa (lisp).

[Sakis]

European spanish is the closest to greek on a sounding level.