Some Tips on Living in Greece 居住希臘小建言

If you are not so fluent in English, you can use this to translate the text below into Chinese:

My personal experience:

1. If you are too lazy to learn Greek, you should not think about living in Greece because government workers here are not usually fluent in English, and later you will burn enough money to hire home tutors for your kids.
2. If you think travelling in Greece is the same as living in Greece, you are too optimistic because the hotels staffs are courteous, but the majority Greek drivers are not.
3. If you are spoiled back home, many Greek men are much more spoiled by their mothers, and the two of you together will be a disaster.
4. If you are very independent, your in-laws may “prevent” you from being so because Greek families are very “close” in distance and in relationship (including living on different floors of the same building, or keep giving you Greek food that you may be tired of eating).
5. If you like an organized society, this place is full of strikes (including garbage workers, teachers, public transit employees…).
6. If you think you can find work based on your professional training or trade, you are again too optimistic.
7. If you don’t have a sense of humor when you encounter difficulties, you will not like it here either.
8. If you like veggies, you may miss a lot of varieties that Taiwan can offer; but if you like meat, there are always souvlakis and gyros everywhere until late at night.
9. If you like to compare prices before making up your mind on a purchase, you will not like shopping here. (Yes, things are not cheap here, but you still have to live.)
10. If I have scared you away, Greece still boasts to have the best climate in Europe, and the sweetest grapes in the world.

Greek Dictionaries 希臘文字典

These on-line English-Greek, Greek-English dictionaries are quite useful, but enter a word only, avoid entering a phrase.
  
請參考希臘文字典很好用,但是只有英文翻希臘文,希臘文翻英文,而且只能翻譯一個個的字.

in.gr  (enter an English word in the box, it will suggest some phrases afterwards)

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more from the WorldLingo's links to various EN-GK dictionaries


希臘句子用這個網址翻比較好
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en 或
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_txt


旅遊前學些基本希臘文到這網址
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/greek/