I am dying to learn how to speak Greek. My husband is of Greek heritage and his father is from Athens, Greece so he speaks fluently. Greek is really the basis for many American words, so a lot of the words in Greek are already pretty familiar. Me and my husband went to Greece a few times, and he was able to communicate with the locals and wish I would have been able to as well. My father in law said the next time you go here to Greece, hopefully you will be speaking Greek with the rest of us.