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Costas Athanassiou

Costas Athanassiou

Co-founder and Executive Partner of Cyprusays®, the Sydney-based app teaching Cypriot Greek, and a Sydney real estate principal at Elders Lidcombe.

Sep 15, 2026

AndreasHOST
12:26
Have you heard from other community members in Cyprus or abroad how they responded about the app since its launch?
12:32
Yeah, definitely.
12:33
It's been a really like overwhelmingly positive response.
12:36
We knew there was a lot of, you know, super Greeks into the Aspera, but yeah, since launching, we really kind of felt it.
12:43
So we've, just to give you a couple of numbers, we've just hit 13,000 downloads worldwide.
12:47
So it's, just on our second month of launch now.
12:50
So we weren't expecting that sort of response, which is definitely very positive for us to see.

16 MINS LATER

28:27
to get the first version out to see what people think we wanted to have the first version be just that audio and the speaking because that's the main thing that's what we're trying to learn like no one's trying to test you on an essay on how you can write Cypriot Greek like if you're at that level you'll be at universities and things like that but for us it's about that family connection and speaking out loud if you're if you're at a job or if you're in Cyprus and all that kind of thing you you want to be able to speak it that's the whole thing so yeah there's there's heaps of more features to come but that's the that was the crux of it and that's why we wanted to add that in to make sure that people have that confidence from the first lesson you use you have to speak it out loud to get to the next one it's

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