Greek and Spanish sound much alike

Allthough it's not simular, at all. Spanish is a Latin language (like Italian and Portuguese), and Greek is a Hellenic language (has some similarities to Macedonian i think)

You are right, I remember meeting a Greek girl and she had the same accent when speaking English as a Spaniard like me. She said Spaniards are very good at pronouncing Greek and the other way round, but both languages look nothing like each other apart from the sound.

Yes Spanish have similarities with greek mostly in the way of accent. Also Italian come close to them. Im from Cyprus and i have to tell you that Spanish are one of the most populated teaching language here with English, French and Turkish. But i believe Spanish are prefered by students here not because of the similarities but because of the many spanish tv-series where they are showed here thought they are in greek.

Also i have to tell you that in Greece as in almost all countries, there are different accents of the language. So in Cyprus. We speak the greek language in an accent which enables us to speak English and French better but dont here a greek to speak these languages. Because greek are like polited language, in Greece they cant say "sh" but they say "s" in hearing. For ex. "cash or *beep* you hear it "cas or sit", and its sounds quiet funny. I dont know if spanish speak with the same way english.

I thought about it and no, in this movie actors speak like robots not as an actual Greeks. I don't know why they speak a wooden accent with firm words and no color in their sentences. I guess you should watch another Greek movie to make a judgement. I hope that my oppinion helped

Each time I watch a foreign movie in a different language than english, I like to analyze the accent and learn some words from the movie, in this case Im surprised for this topic because I found greek complex and funny (αυτοκινητόδρομος ) but after reading here some posts I also realized how they have a very similar accent to Spaniards

You know, I thought the exact same thing! The vocal cadences sound a lot like Iberian spanish to me.

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Yes, they do. My mother tongue is Spanish, I had a Greek boss for nine years and I was exposed to his Greek friends all that time. Ever since the beginning I realized the way they pronounce their words is almost like Spanish.
The two languages have nothing to do with each other but they do pronounce their words like us, in the sense that they rarely have any silent letters in their words, as opposed to let's say "island" in which the "s" is silent, "thorough" in which the "gh" is silent, or the french "Francois" in the which the "s" is also silent.
In spanish and greek, with rare exceptions, every letter in every word is pronounced.

Just my 0.02.

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