That was post #289 ... you could whizz back a bit and have look.
At the time, I couldn't actually find the book ( Learn Greek in 25 Years) from which I got the idea ..and lots of other ideas as well... but now I have, so I can show you one of his, if you see what I mean. The chapter where does this next bit is called "An Army of Lips .. how to remember Greek words" .... you'll see why in a mo ..
Here's one of his, a fairly short one too.......
" I'm crazy about wine ...really crazy. Think of a crazy mad loony crazy silly truly crazy madman crazily smashing wine bottles.
This should be enough to take you to "cra-SEE" = wine.
( Author's note) ..I can't do the Greek letters on here. Well, I can do µ and ,er, well, just µ actually. So I'm doing the Greek words phonetically .. "cra-SEE". It's wine in Greek
Here's Brian's way of getting you to remember the Greek phrase " what time is it?"
.... Imagine a boat on the water and a rower putting a cup of tea on one of his oars - a tea oar - which quickly leads us, or some of us anyway, to "tea-ORA-E-neh" = what time is it? Okay, you have to memorise the last bit .
Let's see his way with the Greek word for "tissues" .. here's what he says ...
Think of South Africa's Nelson Mandela, a regular reader of this column, who is a nice man with a good heart. Focus on that heart, the heart of Mandela, the heart-of-mandela. Say it quickly - heartofmandela, heartofmandela. Say it with confidence. And say it one more time..
harto-MAN-dila ! = tissues. They'll understand.
One more. Want to know how to apologise in Greek ?
Easy . It's lips ans lips and lips. Many, many lips. An army of lips. A lip army.
lip-PAR-may = I'm sorry.
It all sounds very silly but, to be serious, there is method in this madness. Our minds, characters and personalities might be easily intimidated and defeated by unknown, invincible foreign languages but our imaginations are not. May the best chocolate pudding win.
That's the inimitable Brian Church !
Let's have another song from the inimitable Mabü ... " Tierra" ..
Miles de inocentes viviendo la paz
Y a la vez rezándole a un mismo dios
Estar con los suyos en calma
Que somos polvo de estrellas sin más
Nos dieron la vida, nos dieron de más
Nos encanta el aire y disfrutamos del mar
Y disfrutamos de todo lo que tengo
Desaparece y aparece
Todo lo que somos
Hoy le da el aire y desvanece
Todo lo que tengo
Desaparece y aparece
Todo lo que somos
Hoy le da el aire y desvanece
Emperatriz en esta habitación
Más allá de aquí no soy nada
Y en contra toda indicación
Le he contado a el quien sea el que manda
Tanto vives como cuanto quieras dar
Siempre depende el recuerdo de los demás
Quiero beber del aire y disfrutar del mar
Y disfrutar de todo lo que tengo
Desaparece y aparece
Todo lo que somos
Hoy le da el aire y desvanece
Todo lo que tengo
Desaparece y aparece
Todo lo que somos
Hoy le da el aire y desvanece
Todo lo que tengo
Todo lo que tengo
Todo lo que tengo
Todo lo que tengo
Todo lo que tengo
Desaparece y aparece
Todo lo que somos
Hoy le da el aire y desvanece