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Today, my guest is Jason Cachiannis. He can be followed at Jason Cachiannis dot com is that correct as well as ferment.co. Am I getting that correct, Jason?

100% correct. Thank you. And then Twitter, which I don't know how I active you are on is J underscore Cachiannis and you're going to have to spell that Greek last name out is KAK OY A N N I S.

So I OY I A so there there's an I after the Y correct. Yeah, so it's like you want to learn a little basic Greek to augment your I do and I talk about why in a second, but that must have haunted you your entire life.

I usually just say it's silent till you hit the S. So it's really funny. It is I so I learned a little basic Greek I actually was pretty good. I developed long COVID, okay, back two years ago.

And and I had a brain fog and fatigue were these prominent symptoms for a few months. And I had this weird sense that if I worked on language or like music or dance, it was the strangest feeling I thought one of those things I think would help me.

And we were going to go to Greece that summer. So I thought I'm going to learn Greek. And I did it. I did it sort of you know as a parlor trick, you know, you can learn you can go from zero to to kind of conversant.

There's like a very steep curve associated. You can kind of get there. You can get social, but it's really hard to advance. Well, and you can you can say and I limited everything to I and we.

Because I figured I'm day I'm not going to need and I just say everything was I and we and so. So here's here's what I learned. I learned how to say like say it's a lot of I na cafe I say I would like a coffee.

And I learned most my though and protein mall and words like that that I could respond with if people said, least you try. Yeah, pro's path. Oh, yeah.

That is like battle Greek that survival Greek. Yeah, survival.

In country. I would express the eloquent poetry that resides in your soul, but you will be able to get something done in a restaurant.

Right. And and and the Greek really appreciate it was a parlor trick. Let's be fair. And the Greek people really appreciate their like in fact so much so I thought, God, maybe the COVID screwed my brain up. And I was one of these people that can now all of a sudden learn languages.

You know, I might wake up after coma can speak Chinese.

Maybe the locks you unlock, but so can I ask you did you actually learn the alphabet or did you just go off of the network?

I did kind of learn the alphabet and I could kind of see some of the words, but but no, I did not make it a system. I was adopted. What's that?

What was your adopted Greek name?

I didn't have that. I didn't go that way. Yeah, I was just trying to ask for coffee and directions.

I was sort of what I was going for and I could say come here and go there and I and there was, but I really, but I was surprised how much I learned I how much now I'm surprised how much I forgot, but but it was fun and it cleared my long COVID and cleared it.

And so much show I thought, you know, I'm going to keep going with languages and I got back to French, which is something I studied for many years and was never able to speak in a conversion. I could never be conversant really in French.

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