It is all Greek to me!
You know what they say "it is all Greek to me", this may be used as an expression admitting that the person using it is lost beyond all reason. However, if you are interested in a little Greek there is no need to fear as resources become more accessible, and teaching yourself a few Greek phrases may not be a difficult task.
For example let us examine the following sentence, "Signomi, ala then milao elinika" which translated is "Excuse me, I don't speak Greek" take the word "Signomi" in the sentence and you have an expression such as sorry or excuse me; Ellinika in the same sentence actually refers to Greek the language. With the sizable amount of learning materials available publicly it is a lot more simple to pick up a many Greek terms and even become well versed, whether it be decidedly due to travel plans or other.
Hello or "Yia sou" would be "Hello" in a singular sense and in to more than one person would be "Yia sas". Moreover, these terms are phonetic and how you are reading them is how they are pronounced with the same sounding as in YEEA for the "Yia" in both forms. Interestingly enough the same expression is used in a departure and same rules of singular and plurality apply in the same context.
How about expressing morning salutations such as "Good Morning" the Greek translation would be "Kali mera" with no distinction to one or more individuals; in the word KALI the LI retain the YEE sound and in MERA the RA have a DA sound like in DAD, KAH-YEE-MEH-DA would be the proper way of sounding it out for "Good Morning".
How about "Good Evening", well this would be "Kali spera" with the same rules applying; the sound out of this term would look like this, KAH-YEE-SPE-DA. "Kali nichta", translated to English would be "Good night", and here we see the KAH-YEE sounding out "Kali", however the CH in "nichta" is not very pronounced, sounding it out would be NEE-H-TA.
"Entaksi", you can casually throw around some Greek terminology.
