(Primary School of Eleousa, Ioannina, Greece)

Abstract: Our present paper refers to the teaching of Greek as a foreign language at the American public charter school Plato Academy in the Pinellas County district of the state of Florida. Our goal was to explore the context in which the Greek language is taught as a foreign language on a daily mandatory basis to students of Plato Academy Seminole. The teaching of the Greek language in this form is quite common practice in the USA. The research was realized with the participation of a group of students who gave us the opportunity to explore and identify their strengths and their weaknesses concerning their linguistic performance in Greek. Students consider that Greek is a particularly difficult language and assume that they will not continue learning it after high school as they will not need it.