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    Posted: 15 January 2007 at 1:22pm
Hi, I'm new here and basically interested in MSA (Modern Standard Arabic) and Levantine (Eastern), Iraqi and Egyptian Arabic. I'm a native speaker of Greek and live in Athens, Greece. I just checked the FSI material for Greek and have to say that such material is dated, nobody speaks Greek like this any more, besides old scholars and clergymen. The language used in the manuals katharevousa (pure language), something like FusHa in Arabic, is no longer used, and it has been replaced by demotiki (popular). So, if anyone learns Greek from that material will still get their point across in Greece and Cyprus, but people will think that this person has come from a past time. The differences between these two languages pertain to the accents, the grammar,  and the vocabulary used.
 
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