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You can get by with English, but you won't understand the service (which is in the monastery's main language, e.g. Greek/Russian/etc).
by _sunshine_ 5y ago
You can get by with English, but you won't understand the service (which is in the monastery's main language, e.g. Greek/Russian/etc).
- raptorraver 5y agoWorth to mention that even some native greeks and russians have hard time understanding the services as russian monasteries are using Church Slavonic [1] and greek monasteries very old version of the Greek. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Slavonic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Slavonic