How to learn English, Hebrew, Greek, alphabets, numbers, body parts and other languages through songs

 People who don't speak English struggle with English, but we have songs for children which could help them. For example, Heads and shoulders, knees and toes.

If you know somebody who is starting to learn English, or you are teaching and want a fun filler for the last part of a lesson, or for the start, that is one of several possibilities.

I have been struggling for years to learn the Greek, Hebrew and Russian (Cyrillic) alphabets. This week I discovered that you can find Heads and shoulders, knees and toes in Hebrew. 

Type in the words of a nursery rhyme or type of word or exercise (alphabet, numbers, days of the week) and your chosen language. you tube will show other similar types of song in the column on the left and when your chosen video ends another will start on a similar them in the same language.

So, I got three songs in Hebrew.

Useful Websites

Heads and shoulders knees and toes sung by cute cartoon characters on YouTube

also teaches: heads, shoulders, knees, toes, eyes, ears, mouth, nose, march

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4eueDYPTIg

You tube alphabet songs

h for hat, jfor juice, j for jug and so on, k for king, k for kite etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdS5XMX2Aq8

Heads and shoulder, knees and toes with adults and children performing and subtitles in Hebrew and English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJVE8TMUzk8

Hebrew alphabet song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHqjNHxmB7c

Counting one to ten in Greek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr24jKgwdQc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head,_Shoulders,_Knees_and_Toes

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Greek speeches in English using only Greek words - a eulogy

Problem
Where is the speech in English using only Greek words? I thought it was given to the United Nations.

Answer
Today I did yet another search and this time I found an example.

Learning Greek
Learning Greek is an anathema to those who say, "it's all Greek to me". For them learning Greek fills them with agony. Is it a cacophony? Or a crisis? I sympathise with their melancholy, but I am enthusiastic that if you analyse
hellenic phraseology you'll find magic.In our epochorganisations have methods and tactics to energise.

Story
I printed the page giving a speech using Greek words and used a green highlighter on the Greek words. I am now listing Greek words in alphabetical order for quick reference, and hunting for some useful words for a speech about teaching and learning Greek.

Greek Words

acme
Agony
analyse
apologise
axiom
basic
cacophony
catastrophe
chaos
characteristic
climate
criteria
critical
democratic
dialogue
dogma
dynamism
eccentric
economic
emphasise
emphatic
enthusiasm
enthusiastic
episode
e p o c h (spaces because this word was turned into pooch by spell checker)
ethnic
eulogise
gastronomic
generate
generous
harmony
harmonise
hellenic
heresy
hypocritical
idea
idiosyncrasy (oddity or eccentricity)
melancholy
method
monologue
numismatic (related to stamp collecting)
o r a m a (spaces inserted because automatic spell checker turns the word into drama)
organisation
panorama
parallel
phenomenon
policy
political
plethora
problem
program
prophylaxis (preventive treatment)
protagonist (chief actor or character)
sphere
stigma
stigmatise
symmetry
symposium
synthesise
tactic
therapeutic
Thesaurus
thesis


Tip
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~themis/ewords/zolotas.html (Speech using Greek words)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_words_of_Greek_origin
You can give an amusing speech at a wedding, prize giving, birthday party, funeral, wedding anniversary, using Greek for any gathering which includes people from Greece, or those learning or teaching Greek


Author
Angela Lansbury, BA Hons, Toastmasters International awards: Advanced Communicator Gold (ACG - involves presenting a minimum of 40 prepared speeches) Competent Leader (CL).
I am the author of ten books by other publishers, plus ten self-published books.
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