"Αυτός μιλάει Αγγλικά."

Translation: He speaks English.

[Euanjoc8]

I'm guessing that Greek uses capital letters for languages and countries like in English and unlike in many European languages - is that correct?

[panagiotis_ts]

All countries are capitalized in Greek (Ελλάδα, Γαλλία, etc).

As for the languages, it's a mess. On the website of Babiniotis, a very famous Greek linguist and former professor of the university of Athens, I have read that languages must be capitalized. However, in the European manual for Greek texts, I've read that languages in modern Greek must not be capitalized.

I never capitalize languages, but most people that I know capitalize them. So it's your choice, to capitalize them or not. :-)

[teopap2]

I don't capitalize languages either. I think we were taught at school they shouldn't be.

[Apogeotou]

I was taught at school that languages shouldn't be capitalised, but I still do capitalise them :P

[Avi.Ps]

So Αγγλικά is written with two Γ but pronounced like ΝΓ? Its sounds like the voice is reading anglika

[teopap2]

It sounds right, γγ and γκ are pronounced as either "g" or "ng".

[margrankin]

ΓΓis the actual transliteration of "NG" . Example Angel-Άγγελος.

[deactivated user]

“NG" is the actual transliteration of ΓΓ . Example Angel-Άγγελος.

[tu.8zPhLySD9eGoy]

Why is the accent written in the last syllable, but pronounced in the next-to last (in 'Anglika')?

[Dimitra956826]

See my reply to your comment here https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/17523517$comment_id%3D29917028 ^.^

[tu.8zPhLySD9eGoy]

See my reply following your reply...

[deactivated user]

any ik- ending is stressed at the very end. politikOs, politikE, anglikOs, anglikE. The -ik- suffix means “pertaining to” whatever it is attached to: politikos = someone pertaining to the polis, glossa anglike = a language pertaining to Angles = English, anglika = (things) pertaining to Angles = English as well.

[robert672165]

Good example! Even if you don't learn to speak Greek, you can learn to understand what other people are saying (about you).

[mess1n]

Why is there no article for English?