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English Grammar 2

I have visited the Museum of London on the 4th (of) May 2017 with my classmates. We met together up at 9:30 in the morning in front of store Prêt à Manger. I was there from 8 a.m. because I had a lots of work so I had been waiting and working for my classmates. Then when my teacher have arrived, we have gone went to the Museum of London. If When we arrived, we were separated for into three groups and each of these groups had studied some a particular part of London's history about London. I have studied part the period (of history)- age  from about 1860 to present. I would like to say that I'm really happy that I was born in the 20th century. Everything was (or 'used to be')  sooo different (back then). Then when we finished, we were talking talked about our experience of learning (?) history. We were sitting sat in front of the Museum of London and we were just talking talked. Than we have been going went back to school together by tube together. When we arrived in front of the school, our teacher said to us that we have to prepared homework about our school trip.

Ανακαινίζουμε το σαλόνι

Αυτή(ν) την εβδομάδα ανακαινίζουμε το σαλόνι μας. Βάψαμε τους τοίχους κι αγοράσαμε μια(ν) καινούρ(γ)ια μοκέτα. Την επόμενη(ν) / ερχόμενη(ν) / άλλη(ν) εβδομάδα θα φθάσουν(ε) / φτάσουν(ε) (και) τα καινούρ(γ)ια έπιπλα.

Διαβάζω κάθε μέρα τα ελληνικά μου βιβλία κι ακούω τα ελληνικά μου μαθήματα στο διαδίκτυο. Ελπίζω να / ότι έχω κάνει πρόοδο.

Hi, John!

You did a really good job! Above are my suggestions. I thought I'd give you a bit of explanation as well below.

So, in the sense of "decorating" you could also say ανακαινίζω or simply βάφω instead of διακοσμώ. I opted for ανακαινίζω since you are essentially "renovating", i.e. renewing the paint, the furniture, etc.

The Present Perfect is quite rare in Greek used as we use it. It can be translated simply by the Simple Past tense in most cases.

The final nu is generally down to the speaker. In my speech, I prefer it (probably the Cypriot influence). It's typically included before vowels and κ, ξ, π, τ, ψ, γκ, μπ, ντ, τσ, τζ. The new grammars say that it should always be retained in the masculine singular but this is still not adhered to.  

Be careful not to mix up your vowels in your Past Tense endings. 

The gamma in "new" can either be included or left out, though etymologically speaking there is no reason for it to be. Its spelling without it is down to influence of pronunciation.

As you will have noticed, there are a few ways you can express "next week"!

Many words in Greek have alternative spellings when the letters κ, π, τ are involved in which their aspirate counterparts are used instead. E.g. επτά / εφτά, οκτώ / οχτώ, χτες / χθες. This is again down to the speaker, though my teacher taught me that the aspirated version is softer to the Greek ear.

You will probably know already that the final epsilon in the 3rd person plural ending is optional. It's often left out in formal discourse. The "and" in the sense of "also" can help the flow of the sentence and Greeks use it a lot instead of επίσης. Placing και before a noun as well also emphasises it which I felt was a natural inclusion there. Speaking of και, it is often shorted to κι before vowels.

The possessive pronouns can be placed either between an adjective and its noun or after both of the elements. Once again, it's down to the speaker.

In terms of the choice between να and ότι, the first introduces a subordinate clause using said particle whereas the second is simply a conjunction.

I hope I have helped. Keep up the studying; you're doing great!