(Modern) Greek - ελληνικα -

Independant branch of the Indo-european languages, Greek is mainly spoken in Greece, of course, and is very different from Homer's or Pericles' Greek. (A little precision : Greek is NOT the official language of geeks).

Alphabet : derived from the phoenician alphabet, the (modern) greek alphabet has 24 letters.

The first step is of course to learn that alphabet; the second step is...take your gloves and become a blacksmith ! You will have to make a connection between the written letter (which may at first look like a weird drawing) and its sound, with the patient fire of practice! At first it's slow, but soon you'll be able to read Greek properly. (After a few days, I'm able to read it, but not as I read French or English : the words still look somewhat like drawings...so I haven't finished the Blacksmith stage).
To practice, you can use a little "Greek for tourists" guide, or do it on the net here, or on any Greek website.

Grammar : for both pronunciation and grammar, this site is very good (but i'm still stuck on the first lesson - let's say it's a problem of inner-lazyness *rolleyes*).

Various links :
=> History of the Greek language.