How hard is Greek to learn?
Any language is hard to learn for people who are involved in everyday life and have jobs and/or children. The average learning time for a language which is a case-ending language like Spanish, German, Italian, French and Greek(!) is about 300-500 hours of study for the first year. There are about 32 weeks of instruction, so that means one would need to have about 10 hours of study a week to master a first year language, or about an hour and twenty minutes a day. Can you succeed with less time? Probably not. If you study a little every day, you can get by with a little less time. Many of the Greek vocabulary words are similar to English words. If you have already had Spanish, French, German, Italian, Latin or another European language which has case endings (instead of word order like English), you will have a significant advantage over those who have had no language. The hardest thing about Greek is that there is no set word order. One’s mind has to be flexible and use the context as a
