
Effie Athanassiou
Founder & CEO of Cyprusays, the first mobile app for learning Cypriot Greek; Australian-born Greek-Cypriot and former advertising creative.
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Sep 15, 2026
*SPECIAL!* Learning Greek, the Cypriot Way! Cyprusays® with Effie & Costas Athanassiou
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5:47AndreasHOST
When you were creating this app, did you have any particular learners in mind? I know there's that very personal story of UFE, but did it begin with just people who had somewhat of a foundation and then it just kind of ballooned into something that anyone with absolutely no background knowledge of Greek could and should pick this up and be able to learn Cypriot.

Effie AthanassiouGUEST
Like you said, the original idea was I wanted something to learn and that was ongoing for my family and people that had been in Australia or the UK or, you know, in other countries in the US.

Effie AthanassiouGUEST
That was sort of my top ones that I was thinking that there's people like that.

Effie AthanassiouGUEST
So is it worth making? And then after that, Once we started chatting about, you know, is this worth pursuing? How big is that amount of people? We started rolling into the foreign workers and tourists.
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18:13AndreasHOST
Like what goes into designing that? So what were some of the challenges in doing that? Or maybe there's other features that you can tell us that were very difficult to build from a technical perspective.