Odysseas Online Greek Language Tutor now open for fall session registration

Learning Greek has never been so easy! AHEPA Canada has teamed up with the Hellenic Studies Media Group of Simon Fraser University (SFU) to offer free lessons through the Odysseas Online Greek Language Tutor.

AHEPA Canada™ Online Greek School will be taught through the Odysseas Language Project, an interactive learning program designed to teach the Greek language and culture on the Internet using electronic learning principles and advanced user interface technology.

This free online course is ideal for busy people who want to learn Greek on their own time schedule,said AHEPA Canada President Frank Antoniou. It is great for busy professionals, university students, people in mixed marriages, you name it! It has never been so easy and its open to all.

The Fall session of this free online course will begin in October and allows participants to learn with the help of an online tutor at their own pace in their own home. The first course offered will be Modern Greek for Beginners I. This introductory course for Modern Greek is designed for learners without any prior knowledge of the language. All you need is a computer with microphone, speakers, an Internet connection and the latest version of Macromedia Flash Player.

This course will give the student an introduction to the language and will help develop survival skills in the most frequently encountered communicative situations. Although teaching will concentrate on practical language skills, with special emphasis on listening and speaking, the student will also develop a basic level of competence in reading and writing. An online tutor will serve as a companion to online work.

The tutor is designed to emulate how an actual personal tutor would instruct a student. It provides several examples and no-risk quizzes so that students are familiar with the exam format ahead of time. After each exam the student receives customized feedback based on his/her performance. Odysseas also tracks the progress of students through several exams to ensure that they are making steady progress.

The program was developed by the Hellenic Studies Media Group of SFU in British Columbia, with funding through the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation. For more information about the course, please visit http://www.odysseasproject.com/infokit/.

To see a demonstration of the course or to register now for Fall 2007, visit www.ahepacanada.org.

About Hellenic Studies at SFU
The Hellenic Studies Program is an interdisciplinary program at Simon Fraser University that seeks to promote knowledge and interest regarding Hellenism, its history, its language, and literature both in Greece and in the Diaspora. To learn more about Hellenic Studies at SFU, please visit http://www.sfu.ca/hellenic-studies/.