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Deciphering the Letters
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More Letters
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Mastering the Euclidean
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Deciphering the Letters

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30 words/phrases

More Letters

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Mastering the Euclidean

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Additional Letters

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Basic Expressions

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Polite Expressions

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How We Feel

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Are you OK?

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Useful Expressions 1

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Misunderstandings

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Basic Needs

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Asking Questions

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To Go

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Plurals vs Objects

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Plurals vs People

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Numbers

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Past tense

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Opening Times

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Days of the Week

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Months

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To Go Boot Camp

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We Can!

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Mine or Yours?

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Colours

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At What Time?

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Rooms & Floors

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Numbers: 11 to 100

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My Wardrobe 1

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The Seasons

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Adverbs of Time

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The verb "Σβήνω"

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'Όροφος" Or "Πάτωμα"?

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Say the word "old" in Greek

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The Word "Βαρύς"

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23 words/phrases

the word "φτάνω"

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17 words/phrases

Basic letters 2

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3 words/phrases

What?

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How are you?

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6 words/phrases

Greetings during the day

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4 words/phrases

Bad pick-up line

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Thank God!

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Are you sick?

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Terrible customer service

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He is my friend!

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2 words/phrases

Basic letters 1

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A test of the map

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Pictionary

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Greek Letters in 30 Seconds

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26 words/phrases

Numbers in Greek 0-100

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18 words/phrases

Months of the Year

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The Genders in Greek

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36 words/phrases

Articles in Greek

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15 words/phrases

Short Stories in Greek

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31 words/phrases

Adverbs in Greek

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34 words/phrases

Common Expressions in Greek

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Expressing duration in Greek

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Useful Phrases

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At the restaurant 2

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Greetings 2

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At the restaurant 1

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Talking about time

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23 words/phrases

Confusing words in Greek

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31 words/phrases

The Greek verb "πειράζω"

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22 words/phrases

How to use the word "sad"

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14 words/phrases

The Greek verb "δίνω"

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28 words/phrases

Expressing future intentions

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24 words/phrases

The word "broken" in Greek

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15 words/phrases

Greek slang

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Vocabulary of Emotions

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How to say "how long" correctly in Greek

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31 words/phrases

Frequent summer expressions

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Time in Greek

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The hidden meaning of the wod "thelo"

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33 words/phrases

10 common dialogues

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32 words/phrases

I don't remember

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29 words/phrases

Practice conditional

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42 words/phrases

The weather

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30 words/phrases

Δεν and Μην

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33 words/phrases

My Wardrobe 2

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14 words/phrases

Measuring Things

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16 words/phrases

Useful Expressions 2

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17 words/phrases

1st, 2nd, 3rd...

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13 words/phrases

Furniture

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17 words/phrases

Belongings

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17 words/phrases

Large Numbers

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6 words/phrases

How Long Will It Take?

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What Just Happened?

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11 words/phrases

The Weather 1

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17 words/phrases

Ours & Theirs

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12 words/phrases

Linking Words

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The Weather 3

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16 words/phrases

Greek slang 2

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16 words/phrases

Talking about hobbies 1

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What do you suggest

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When are you leaving?

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Wrong call

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Do you like Greece?

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I'm sorry

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I'm happy

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What's your phone number?

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Drawings of feelings

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Why are you crying?

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Hot or cold?

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Outfits of the week

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Personality test

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Do we know each other?

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Basic letters 3

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4 words/phrases

Pictionary game

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3 words/phrases

Hide and Seek

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Looking for the place

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Not again!

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Where is the toilet?

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What time is it?

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Asking for direction 2

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Happy birthday

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Small talk

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Talking about hobbies

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At the ATM

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Say the word

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Pack the backpack

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