The Greek We Use Without Knowing It

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Although Castilian recognizes Latin as its mother tongue, one of the languages that has contributed most to Spanish is Greek: currently, 20% of Spanish words come from that language. The comedian and philologist Paco Pómez returns with a new installment of the ‘Clásicos con Humor’ Cycle with ‘The Greek We Use Without Knowing It’. * Performance not intended for children. More information in the Ticket Office and Regulations section of this website https://auditorioalfredokraus.es/taquillas-normativa A quick but accurate look at the Greek language that is found in the Spanish we speak, as is the case in many other modern languages. In this way, we will see how many Greek words appear exactly as they are in our language and many others are modified to a greater or lesser extent. Perhaps this way we will finally end up convincing ourselves that we must know and study the Greek language not only because of the enormous wealth of scientific vocabulary it has contributed to countless languages around the world, but also because of the flow of culture and knowledge that it continues to send us even today and, especially, because of the large number of Greek loanwords that are present, current and fully functioning in our everyday language.