I wanted to express my sincere gratitude for your insightful and engaging Greek learning videos on RUclips. Your dedication to teaching has been incredibly helpful, and I appreciate the effort you put into making language learning enjoyable. Thank you for being a valuable resource for Greek enthusiasts like me!
Dear Temmie, you’re the first cat I’ve met who is learning Greek. I really appreciate your comment, and am glad that you’re finding some of my videos helpful. I’ve had to stop making videos for the time being, but I’ll continue to publish and create teaching materials when I have the time again. Just keep moving forward on your Greek learning journey- if you stay committed, you WILL reach your goals. The trick is to stay committed and passionate, because real language learning is a marathon and not a sprint. I wish you much success!
Thank you for watching the video, and for your valuable insight! I rolled the ρ much stronger and longer here in order to help learners. It would certainly sound strange to do in an actual word!
Any tips to learn a broader vocabulary? I'm half greek and my dad wouldn't speak it around us. Also on your point thank god because tongue tied people, like me actually have the inability to roll the r like a vibration, but can make the soft ρ sound.
@@IMZ1N You can go ahead and roll it just enough. Its not very strong anyway. As for vocabulary, I'm not really sure because Greek doesn't have many speakers that learn it. I would start by watching some Greek videos on topics I like, so you can learn some thematic vocabulary. You can also find some Greek coursebooks.
Thank you so very much for this great treaching method. I'm just a beginner, had only learned the alfabet and got kind of confused while trying to discern a number of letters. Some letters look like Latin, others like Russian and it doesn't help when they are pronounced completely different. Then I came across your video and reading and practising those simple syllables and words helped a lot. I assume that yourself learned reading Greek later in your life which is why you are can foresee the difficulties for foreign learners. Great job, thanks. I'll definitely follow you.
Merci mult pentru lectie! Eu sunt de origine greaca si romana din Moldova, aici locuim de pe timpul fanariot. Eu vorbesc limba romana, rusa si ucraineana, si mult imi doresc sa invat limba greaca. Felicitari de la grecii ortodocsi din Moldova!
Ευχαριστώ πολύ. I studied Koine for a little while. I didn't keep reading out loud, so this was very helpful. I will keep doing your lessons. What you have given the world is priceless. Thank you very much.
Incredible! Felt great being able to read the words and know if you’re doing them right or wrong as you give enough time to try ourselves and then read with us. Thank you great content!!
I'm just starting to learn this beautiful language... It was really difficult for as an Indian Bengali.... 😅 but i have found a little hope to see your video..... Thank you... 💙 sending love from India🇮🇳
You are truly a fantastic teacher!!!! I love how you really clearly explain things that even an absolute beginner like me can understand. I am so excited about starting my Greek journey and will look for a teacher with your style of teaching. I truly enjoyed this video and it has inspired me to start my journey again. (I had studied Greek briefly a couple of years ago and visited Santorini Island) I had to stop my studies after an illness requiring 2.5 mos. hospitalization but recovered now. Doctors say a true miracle. I am ready finally to learn again. I appreciate your work and hope to find more of your videos!!!!!!! You have a true gift for teaching.!!!!!!!!
This is awesome. Great lesson. The way these letters sound are super easy for me (in my opinion of course). For a Spanish speaker (my mother tongue) this is great. Loved it. The other extra sounds we don’t have are actually easy too and interesting sounds. Great video oki
HI there , thank so much for such a good lesson. I like the way you break them down into phonetics with the obvious ones against the not so obvious ones. Love this lesson and looking forward to seeing your other lessons. A great approach for learning greek. A big thanks to you .
Wow! I'm just delighted, you are very interesting to listen to!! I learned to read very quickly. I am from Ukraine, and my family had a Greek grandmother, so I want to know the Greek language I think that these are my roots :))
Thank you so very much for the wonderful teaching method. I'm just a beginner and I got kind of confused while trying to discern the different Greek letters. Some letters look like Latin and others are like Russian. But you make it easy to remember when reading syllables and short words. I assume you yourself learned them later in your life which is why you can foresee the difficulties for foreign learners. Thanks again, I am staying with you
This is awesome! I live in Virginia and my native language is English, I've recently been meeting people from different regions and countries and am fascinated with understanding and learning different languages. This was easy to follow and understand! thanks so much for teaching! God Bless You!
Hello, Your lessons are really very good and useful. You are explaining very clearly. Thank you so muchhh🙏 I hope you continue sharing new content with us. PS: I cant access to your website i am not sure what is the problem. Thankkkkk youuu again
Thanks so much for the super cool explanation. I'm starting to learn Greek, and right from the very beginning I was stuck with the alphabet. I couldn't move on my own because I didn't know which side to use to enter the alphabet. Now I see that it is not so scary and difficult. Regards. I leave a like and subscribe :)
Nice lesson! BTW, I found the Greek IME on windows doesn't have any word library. I need to type words by typing each characters including the accent marks. Do you know which Greek IME can have a word library on windows? Thanks in advance. And another question, I am using Duolingo to learn Greek. And I noticed that the t is very like d, or the flap-t in English. Is it just a clean t? And similar happens on the p, it's like b, or flap-p in English.
You are a great teacher. I am learning Koine Greek, but not sure if to use ,modern Greek pronunciation, which has 6 sounds (3 vowels and 3 diphthongs) that sound the same. (How do Greek children learn to spell?) The reconstructed versions for ancient greek have clear differences in the sounds for all the vowels and diphthongs.
Spelling is certainly a challenge, though if you think about it we have the same problem in English! As for which pronunciation you learn, that is up to you. I personally recommend that people learn the received (modern) pronunciation, because then you can access Modern Greek more easily if you decide to do so in the future. Learning reconstructed pronunciation (Erasmian, for example) will help some rules about spelling and accentuation make a bit more sense as you learn Koine, but I don't think the benefit there is especially worthwhile. Another benefit in learning the modern pronunciation is that you get to avoid the constant debating about what Ancient Greek "really" sounded like 😉
@@thegreekacademy3643 Thank you for replying to my comment. You make some good points. Once I know Koine Greek well, I expect it would make learning Modern Greek easier, so I will consider what you said.
Youre a spectacular teacher I love this! I wasnt very bothered by the multi tasking (User error) lol but I look forward to learning from you inn the future!!
I am really suprised that Greek and Cyrillic alphabets are so similar. They have many similar letters and vast majority letters make very similar sounds.
Just brilliant! One suggestion I have is that if you wrote the words on the lines as you would in a book, then one can see how the letters are supposed to fit on the lines - like what is above and below the line with some of the letters. At the moment the page you are using does not make that clear. Thanks.
Dear John, thank you for the wonderful suggestion! Unfortunately, I was (am) still trying to figure out technology when I made this video, and the line thing was one of my struggles. Next time, I'll consider using an empty background if I can't figure it out. Happy learning!
I taught myself to read the Greek alpabet when I was 14. I knew only that the B sounds like a V but my pronounciation of the theta, mu, nu, xi were totally different. Its a small step to read a bit Coptic or Russian. With Greek you have best of both world but the best system are Egyptian hieroglyphics. 😊😊
Native English (Canadian) speaker here: English seems extra dumb now. I honestly don't know how anyone could ever learn it as a foreigner. Roam, Home, Loan and Bone all sound the same. The X in Exit and Xylophone have completely different pronunciations. Speaking of which, you'd think THAT word would be Pronuounciate but we just lose the u for likely bo reason. Chaotic, Cheeta and Cheryl all sound different in terms of the CH. Don't even get me started on all the silent consonants ("pneumonia, etc.) and "rules" that should never be presented as rules at all! ("I before E except after C", etc.) Plurals are a total shit show!! Goose becomes Geese but Moose does not become Meese...Mouse becomes Mice but House does not become Hice...!! lol 🙃 Thanks for a great video and the best alphabetic one I've come across.😂
I feel the American accent is making it a little harder for somepeople Mainly because Greeks don’t add an r to almost half of the words. However you do get the Scottish x or ch, very throaty. I learnt Greek way back in 1967 with something called a Linguaphone course. There were 20 lessons but l only completed eleven. It took me four weeks wages to pay it off. I’m now 76 but l have never regretted learning it even though it lead to me finding out my then boyfriend was married. Had l not learned it l would have wasted a few more months or years of my life with him. 🇦🇺❤️🇦🇺
Interestingly - Aleph and Bet are the first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. But I'm not sure if it was formulated as "alphabet" - as I think it evolved from a pictorial language.
Het Hebreeuws is volgens mij een ouder alfabet dan het Griekse alfabet. Koning David schreef ruim 3000 jaar geleden al psalmen in het Hebreeuws. De eerste 2 letters in het Hebreeuws, א en ב zijn ALEF en BETH Ziehier ALEFBET of Alfabet in het Grieks.... Ik volg uw Griekse lessen, omdat ik 6 jaar in Griekenland verblijf. Ook via Griekse Songs leer ik uw taal. Met vriendelijke groet. Han Kraaijeveld.
Yes, Hebrew is indeed an older writing system than Greek, and ALEF and BETH are related to the 1st letters of the Greek alphabet. Technically, though, Ancient Hebrew is an "abjad" rather than an "alphabet," because it originally did not have vowels. Your knowledge of Hebrew will certainly help you in your journey with Greek. Happy learning, and thank you for your comment!
ανεκδοτο ηταν αυτο;!το 70% των αρχαιων εβραικων ειναι αρχαιες ελληνικες λεξεις και ετυμολογουντε ολες ενω στα εβραικα ουτε μια .καταρχην φιλολογοι Εβραίοι το λενε , μαλιστα εχουν γραφεί βιβλια για την καταγωγη των εβραϊκών απο την αρχαια ελληνικη δωριδα γλωσσα που ειναι η ποιο παλαια. ις-ορα-ελ -> ισραελ-ηλ -> αυτος που κοιταει το φως του θεου , αιντε γεια
Mycenaean Linear B is from 1500 BC Documented so Far [Iklaina Tablet]. One finding that is doubted is from 1700 BC [Kafkania Pebble]. What is the oldest inscribed/attested Hebrew, can you show us? 😃
@@thegreekacademy3643Yes, Greek is the First True Alphabet. However, the Greek Language is older when it comes to Attestation with Mycenaean Linear B: 1700 BC Kafkania Pebble [Maybe?] 1500 BC Iklaina Tabelet [Confirmed] Whats the oldest attested Hebrew? 🤔
actually we use 3 more I all 3 of them are compinations OI EI YI .the reason is simple .check these words TYXH =LUCK TYXEI= HAPPENS TOIXOI=WALLS OF A HOUSE TEIXH=WALLS OF A FORT OR A CASTLE they all sound the same so to indicate the different meaning we need many I
Friendly tip: the ς the ending sigma when handwritten can be written exactly the same as in English s. Tbh just like how latin characters dont look like most people's handwriting, the same goes for greek.
Hello... your introduction for this video is simple but informative. I hope as i journey with you Ill be able to read, understand and comprehend simple words or sentences in Greek.. By the way, you pronounce 'M' as 'me'. I ve watced greek videos and 'M' is pronounced 'mu'. If you could tell me why, please. Thanks
Dear Reyna, I'm glad you found the introduction helpful! If you're dedicated to learning Greek, you'll do more than just comprehend simple sentences! The reason for the difference in pronunciation is because there are actually two pronunciation systems that you might encounter when trying to learn Greek, though only one is appropriate for Modern Greek. When you hear someone pronouncing ᾽μ᾽ as "mu," they are teaching what is called the Erasmian Pronunciation. Erasmian Pronunciation is a reconstruction of what ANCIENT Greek sounded like, and is not reflective of how Modern Greeks speak the language. This series of videos teaches you how to pronounce Greek as it is pronounced by native Greek speakers today, and it is the correct pronunciation to learn unless you're interested STRICTLY in Ancient Greek. I hope that helps!
@@thegreekacademy3643 This is actually not true. Erasmus asked a Greek to tell him how to read the letters, because he wanted to translate the Bible. The Greek mocked him and told him other things than the truth. But that stayed in the books and that barbaric accent passed. At the end of his life Erasmus - after he had spoken to serious Greeks Byzantine grammarians - admitted his mistake and formally apologized. But the damage was already done. Greek has never dramatically changed its pronunciation and the way it is spoken. Besides, those who have kept the language for so many thousands of years know better.
Thank you for your comment! My response to Reynaa was not an attempt to analyze the pronunciation of Greek over miles and millenia, but rather to simplify and prepare them for the different pronunciation systems they will encounter as they scour the internet trying to learn Greek (these are, indeed, Erasmian and the Received pronunciation). Of course, the debate about AG pronunciation rages on, and I suspect that we share some similar views - I personally am not a fan of Erasmian even for AG, and prefer that AG is taught with the Received Pronunciation. If anyone else reads this comment and is interested in "pop scholarship" on the topic of pronunciation, "Greek: A History of the Language and Its Speakers" by Geoffrey Horrocks is a wonderful introduction.@@ΑπόλλωνΘηρευτής
Let's say you are blind and you want to know about the color of the sky. Are you going to ask another blind person, who also like you has never felt what the blue color looks like, or a seen person, who can explain you that blue looks like the water of the ocean ? So you might have an idea of the blue ? As a native greek speaker, I'm telling you that M reads and sounds like "me," not as "moouu," and N reads and sounds like "knee," not like NOU, NOU which is actually a brand of Dutch concentrate milk 😅 Me Knee Remember these.
Your comment proofs that it tricked you ! Here is why. B looks like B, but in greek makes the V sound. So in greek, we say " BAR BAR IAN " as " ΒΑΡ ΒΑΡ ΟΣ " but pronounce " VAR VAR OS "
The words on the first 3 columns are not actually greek words. They are only combinations of letters, to tech you what sound you need to produce with your mouth, when you see those letters. ζοφ ξοφ μοφ are like zof ksof mof etc. Only the last column are real Greek words. But because I don't remember them, I cannot give you the meaning. But here is what you can do. Re-watch the video, and write each word on a piece of paper. It will be a good practice to write some greek letters ! Then type those letters from the paper you wrote them into Google translator and behold ! You have the meaning in English. Need less to say that you must have installed the greek keyboard on your computer or smartphone, witch can be done very easily in a matter of 5 seconds. Just install a foreign keyboard, and choose the greek.
Great question! The Phoenician system is technically classified as an "abjad," which means that vowels are not explicit in the script. Many of the Phoenician characters were indeed adopted by the Greeks when they developed their alphabet.
There is the letter B but it makes the V sound. Now when we Greeks want to make the English B sound we use a combination of letters which when they sound together the sound similar to B. The combination is M and P. So when an English speaker says Blue, we Greeks write MPLU and in greek ΜΠΛU So your B becoms our ΜΠ And your V becomes our B
Thank you Nickolas! That's a great idea, maybe in the future we'll do a vocab-focused video on animals. It's always fun to discover that the word hippopotamus really just means "river horse" in Greek!
The words on the first 3 columns are not actually greek words. They are only combinations of letters to teach you what sound you need to produce with your mouth when you see those letters. ζοφ ξοφ μοφ are like zof ksof mof etc. Only the last column are real Greek words. But because I don't remember them, I can not give you the meaning. But here is what you can do. Re-watch the video, and write each word on a piece of paper. It will be a good practice to write some greek letters ! Then, type those letters from the paper you wrote them into Google translator and behold ! You have the meaning in English. Need less to say that you must have installed the greek keyboard on your computer or smartphone, which can be done very easily in a matter of 5 seconds. Just install a foreign keyboard, and choose the greek.
I wanted to express my sincere gratitude for your insightful and engaging Greek learning videos on RUclips. Your dedication to teaching has been incredibly helpful, and I appreciate the effort you put into making language learning enjoyable. Thank you for being a valuable resource for Greek enthusiasts like me!
Dear Temmie, you’re the first cat I’ve met who is learning Greek. I really appreciate your comment, and am glad that you’re finding some of my videos helpful. I’ve had to stop making videos for the time being, but I’ll continue to publish and create teaching materials when I have the time again. Just keep moving forward on your Greek learning journey- if you stay committed, you WILL reach your goals. The trick is to stay committed and passionate, because real language learning is a marathon and not a sprint. I wish you much success!
😂❤️ Ευχαριστώ
I second that! Wish I came across this content before I went to Athens and Crete 😢
Something from a native Greek speaker: we actually do not roll r as much as in Spanish or Italian. It is a roll but a softer and shorter one.
Thank you for watching the video, and for your valuable insight! I rolled the ρ much stronger and longer here in order to help learners. It would certainly sound strange to do in an actual word!
Any tips to learn a broader vocabulary? I'm half greek and my dad wouldn't speak it around us. Also on your point thank god because tongue tied people, like me actually have the inability to roll the r like a vibration, but can make the soft ρ sound.
@@IMZ1N You can go ahead and roll it just enough. Its not very strong anyway.
As for vocabulary, I'm not really sure because Greek doesn't have many speakers that learn it. I would start by watching some Greek videos on topics I like, so you can learn some thematic vocabulary. You can also find some Greek coursebooks.
Thank you so very much for this great treaching method. I'm just a beginner, had only learned the alfabet and got kind of confused while trying to discern a number of letters. Some letters look like Latin, others like Russian and it doesn't help when they are pronounced completely different. Then I came across your video and reading and practising those simple syllables and words helped a lot. I assume that yourself learned reading Greek later in your life which is why you are can foresee the difficulties for foreign learners. Great job, thanks. I'll definitely follow you.
Great! Thanks for this small, but important, head’s up.
A youtube channel where a guy who looks like Zeus teaches you Greek. Something I never knew I needed. This was amazing. Σας ευχαριστώ!
4:29 Letters
10:21 Sound
21:26 Reading Practice 1
27:11 Reading Practice 2
32:19 Reading Practice 3
Merci mult pentru lectie!
Eu sunt de origine greaca si romana din Moldova, aici locuim de pe timpul fanariot.
Eu vorbesc limba romana, rusa si ucraineana, si mult imi doresc sa invat limba greaca.
Felicitari de la grecii ortodocsi din Moldova!
Esti de origine greaca si romana din...Moldova..esti rusoaica cu sange rusesc!
thank you from Palestine , its my first lesson i want to learn Greek because i am Greek orthodox
@DeeDee-tx8ll in the west bank we have , the war is in Gaza not in all Palestine
Best wishes to you. Palestine has support here in New Zealand. My wife and I are marching for you tomorrow.
Λευτεριά στην Παλαιστίνη και στον παλαιστινιακό λαό ❤
Freedom to Palestine, from South Africa. We have many Greek people in South Africa and I have several Greek colleagues and friends.
God bless you.
I'm ten minutes in and already I'm liking this content. Very nice flow to it, nice pace, easy to grasp, and informative.
Ευχαριστω!
Ευχαριστώ πολύ. I studied Koine for a little while. I didn't keep reading out loud, so this was very helpful. I will keep doing your lessons. What you have given the world is priceless. Thank you very much.
I like this teaching style. Very easy to understand and knowledgeable.
Thank you
Thank you so much! I am just a beginner, but your lessons are university quality. Far better than any self-teaching program.
Incredible! Felt great being able to read the words and know if you’re doing them right or wrong as you give enough time to try ourselves and then read with us. Thank you great content!!
WOW! Thank you. I’m just starting out Greek & only saw this one episode but it is fantastic. I’ll definitely continue with the others.
I'm just starting to learn this beautiful language... It was really difficult for as an Indian Bengali.... 😅 but i have found a little hope to see your video..... Thank you... 💙 sending love from India🇮🇳
Thank you so much !!!! Your lessons are superb for learning the basics, as opposed to the others who just teach you useful words and phrases
Excellent, a wonderful person, well explained and good to follow. Thank you very much.
Καλησπέρα π.Μιχαηλ.Ειμαι ο Παύλος που έχουμε συναντηθεί τυχαία στον δρόμο τρεις φορές.Προχθες μπροστά στο Καυτατζόγλειο.Τυχαια βρήκα το κανάλι σας.
Αχαχα😀τέλεια! Να είστε καλά Παύλε! Είδες πως διψάνε να μάθουν την ελληνική γλώσσα!
Great job, I am a language teacher, and enjoyed the productivity of your video. Thanks.
You are truly a fantastic teacher!!!! I love how you really clearly explain things that even an absolute beginner like me can understand. I am so excited about starting my Greek journey and will look for a teacher with your style of teaching. I truly enjoyed this video and it has inspired me to start my journey again. (I had studied Greek briefly a couple of years ago and visited Santorini Island) I had to stop my studies after an illness requiring 2.5 mos. hospitalization but recovered now. Doctors say a true miracle. I am ready finally to learn again. I appreciate your work and hope to find more of your videos!!!!!!! You have a true gift for teaching.!!!!!!!!
This is awesome. Great lesson. The way these letters sound are super easy for me (in my opinion of course). For a Spanish speaker (my mother tongue) this is great. Loved it. The other extra sounds we don’t have are actually easy too and interesting sounds. Great video oki
HI there , thank so much for such a good lesson. I like the way you break them down into phonetics with the obvious ones against the not so obvious ones. Love this lesson and looking forward to seeing your other lessons. A great approach for learning greek. A big thanks to you .
Finally I found this channel that helps me understand the basic. Thank you very much.
Simply loving your explanations 😊
so nice to find your channel, I just started to study Greek and the alphabet have been a challeging haha
If you find the alphabet challenging, you're up for a ride.
Wow! I'm just delighted, you are very interesting to listen to!! I learned to read very quickly. I am from Ukraine, and my family had a Greek grandmother, so I want to know the Greek language
I think that these are my roots :))
Thaaank you!! From Kyiv. Very helpful for my Septuaginta reading.
Thank you so very much for the wonderful teaching method. I'm just a beginner and I got kind of confused while trying to discern the different Greek letters. Some letters look like Latin and others are like Russian. But you make it easy to remember when reading syllables and short words. I assume you yourself learned them later in your life which is why you can foresee the difficulties for foreign learners. Thanks again, I am staying with you
THIS is awesome! the best lesson on reading Greek ever!
I recognize ф / п / and к we have these in the Ukrainian alphabet 19:17
Gracias … με λένε Ela , I love your teaching style.. Native from Honduras living in New York City . 🙏
Πάτερ, πολύ θαυμάσια μάθημα, μου άρεσε παρά πολύ. Χαιρετίσματα από το Μέξικο.
Ευχαριστώ πολύ @mexodf, χαίρομαι που σου άρεσε!
What a great teacher.
Clear explanations and good pace - lovely - thank you!
U are the best teacher in Greek thanks a lot
Thank you. A nice video. The pronunciation is clear. I start to learn Greek. Your video helps a lot.
Thank you very much for this class! It is helping me a lot, you're an awesome teacher.
This is awesome! I live in Virginia and my native language is English, I've recently been meeting people from different regions and countries and am fascinated with understanding and learning different languages. This was easy to follow and understand! thanks so much for teaching! God Bless You!
You are a very good experience greek teacher
worlds most beautiful alphabet.
love from Sweden 🇸🇪
Hello, Your lessons are really very good and useful. You are explaining very clearly. Thank you so muchhh🙏 I hope you continue sharing new content with us. PS: I cant access to your website i am not sure what is the problem. Thankkkkk youuu again
Very helpful, thank you for educating! :D
Thanks so much for the super cool explanation. I'm starting to learn Greek, and right from the very beginning I was stuck with the alphabet. I couldn't move on my own because I didn't know which side to use to enter the alphabet. Now I see that it is not so scary and difficult. Regards. I leave a like and subscribe :)
Nice lesson! BTW, I found the Greek IME on windows doesn't have any word library. I need to type words by typing each characters including the accent marks. Do you know which Greek IME can have a word library on windows? Thanks in advance.
And another question, I am using Duolingo to learn Greek. And I noticed that the t is very like d, or the flap-t in English. Is it just a clean t?
And similar happens on the p, it's like b, or flap-p in English.
I just found your channel. Please keep making these videos.
You are a great teacher. I am learning Koine Greek, but not sure if to use ,modern Greek pronunciation, which has 6 sounds (3 vowels and 3 diphthongs) that sound the same. (How do Greek children learn to spell?) The reconstructed versions for ancient greek have clear differences in the sounds for all the vowels and diphthongs.
Spelling is certainly a challenge, though if you think about it we have the same problem in English! As for which pronunciation you learn, that is up to you. I personally recommend that people learn the received (modern) pronunciation, because then you can access Modern Greek more easily if you decide to do so in the future. Learning reconstructed pronunciation (Erasmian, for example) will help some rules about spelling and accentuation make a bit more sense as you learn Koine, but I don't think the benefit there is especially worthwhile. Another benefit in learning the modern pronunciation is that you get to avoid the constant debating about what Ancient Greek "really" sounded like 😉
@@thegreekacademy3643 Thank you for replying to my comment. You make some good points. Once I know Koine Greek well, I expect it would make learning Modern Greek easier, so I will consider what you said.
Youre a spectacular teacher I love this! I wasnt very bothered by the multi tasking (User error) lol but I look forward to learning from you inn the future!!
Hello sir. You are great. I really learn from you. Just continue your excellent job.
9:27 Δδ should be red as it doesnt make a D sound, but a voiced TH sound, like in “that”
Great explanations! Thanks a lot!
I am really suprised that Greek and Cyrillic alphabets are so similar. They have many similar letters and vast majority letters make very similar sounds.
Cyrillos was Greek
The latin and cyrillic alphabet are by the Greeks
I loved it!!!! Learned a lot, I liked and subscribed 💯
This is so helpful! Thank you!!
Amazing class,Thank you so much!
Very informative. Thank you very much !
Just brilliant! One suggestion I have is that if you wrote the words on the lines as you would in a book, then one can see how the letters are supposed to fit on the lines - like what is above and below the line with some of the letters. At the moment the page you are using does not make that clear. Thanks.
Dear John, thank you for the wonderful suggestion! Unfortunately, I was (am) still trying to figure out technology when I made this video, and the line thing was one of my struggles. Next time, I'll consider using an empty background if I can't figure it out. Happy learning!
I taught myself to read the Greek alpabet when I was 14. I knew only that the B sounds like a V but my pronounciation of the theta, mu, nu, xi were totally different.
Its a small step to read a bit Coptic or Russian. With Greek you have best of both world but the best system are Egyptian hieroglyphics. 😊😊
I am enjoying learning greek from Mandy Patinkin!
You kill my father. Prepare to learn Greek.
Thank you! Very nice and helpful!
Katapliktiko!
Thank you so much 💙🙏🏼
Native English (Canadian) speaker here: English seems extra dumb now. I honestly don't know how anyone could ever learn it as a foreigner. Roam, Home, Loan and Bone all sound the same. The X in Exit and Xylophone have completely different pronunciations. Speaking of which, you'd think THAT word would be Pronuounciate but we just lose the u for likely bo reason. Chaotic, Cheeta and Cheryl all sound different in terms of the CH. Don't even get me started on all the silent consonants ("pneumonia, etc.) and "rules" that should never be presented as rules at all! ("I before E except after C", etc.) Plurals are a total shit show!! Goose becomes Geese but Moose does not become Meese...Mouse becomes Mice but House does not become Hice...!! lol 🙃 Thanks for a great video and the best alphabetic one I've come across.😂
Συγχαρητήρια! Πολύ καλή παρουσίαση.
I feel the American accent is making it a little harder for somepeople Mainly because Greeks don’t add an r to almost half of the words. However you do get the Scottish x or ch, very throaty. I learnt Greek way back in 1967 with something called a Linguaphone course. There were 20 lessons but l only completed eleven. It took me four weeks wages to pay it off. I’m now 76 but l have never regretted learning it even though it lead to me finding out my then boyfriend was married. Had l not learned it l would have wasted a few more months or years of my life with him. 🇦🇺❤️🇦🇺
thanks, the best explication i found on youtube. Some sounds are similar in arabic
Thank you, sir! This is very easy to follow making it less intimidating.
Really enjoyed learning so easy to follow and so happy to have feelings that I can read Greek Scriptures a little bit.
do you have a video on ancient greek reading?
I want to learn Greek... Thank you very much 🙏
Interestingly - Aleph and Bet are the first two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. But I'm not sure if it was formulated as "alphabet" - as I think it evolved from a pictorial language.
You’re right! The first letters in both the Hebrew and Greek alphabet hearken back to the same common source: the Phoenicians.
Het Hebreeuws is volgens mij een ouder alfabet dan het Griekse alfabet. Koning David schreef ruim 3000 jaar geleden al psalmen in het Hebreeuws.
De eerste 2 letters in het Hebreeuws, א en ב zijn ALEF en BETH
Ziehier ALEFBET of Alfabet in het Grieks....
Ik volg uw Griekse lessen, omdat ik 6 jaar in Griekenland verblijf.
Ook via Griekse Songs leer ik uw taal.
Met vriendelijke groet.
Han Kraaijeveld.
Yes, Hebrew is indeed an older writing system than Greek, and ALEF and BETH are related to the 1st letters of the Greek alphabet. Technically, though, Ancient Hebrew is an "abjad" rather than an "alphabet," because it originally did not have vowels. Your knowledge of Hebrew will certainly help you in your journey with Greek. Happy learning, and thank you for your comment!
ανεκδοτο ηταν αυτο;!το 70% των αρχαιων εβραικων ειναι αρχαιες ελληνικες λεξεις και ετυμολογουντε ολες ενω στα εβραικα ουτε μια .καταρχην φιλολογοι Εβραίοι το λενε , μαλιστα εχουν γραφεί βιβλια για την καταγωγη των εβραϊκών απο την αρχαια ελληνικη δωριδα γλωσσα που ειναι η ποιο παλαια. ις-ορα-ελ -> ισραελ-ηλ -> αυτος που κοιταει το φως του θεου , αιντε γεια
Mycenaean Linear B is from 1500 BC Documented so Far [Iklaina Tablet]. One finding that is doubted is from 1700 BC [Kafkania Pebble].
What is the oldest inscribed/attested Hebrew, can you show us? 😃
@@thegreekacademy3643Yes, Greek is the First True Alphabet.
However, the Greek Language is older when it comes to Attestation with Mycenaean Linear B:
1700 BC Kafkania Pebble [Maybe?]
1500 BC Iklaina Tabelet [Confirmed]
Whats the oldest attested Hebrew? 🤔
The Greek is older
actually we use 3 more I all 3 of them are compinations OI EI YI .the reason is simple .check these words TYXH =LUCK TYXEI= HAPPENS TOIXOI=WALLS OF A HOUSE TEIXH=WALLS OF A FORT OR A CASTLE they all sound the same so to indicate the different meaning we need many I
Perfect lesson!!
Thank you from Dano , very helpful.
dziękuję za przykłady do czytania😀
Very helpful. Ευχαριστώ
Its pretty fascinating, the Gimmel in Yemenite Hebrew pronunciation sounds like the Gamma. Its like a guttural G-CH smushed together.
Friendly tip: the ς the ending sigma when handwritten can be written exactly the same as in English s. Tbh just like how latin characters dont look like most people's handwriting, the same goes for greek.
Thanks for a good lesson🙏
Is this series teaching modern Greek or ancient Greek (Koine)?
Very helpful ❤ from Pakistan
Ben kantor…..?….. yes, now? Either way appreciate it like your program. Much appreciated. Great presentation
Ευχαριστώ κύριε!
What era of Greek does this channel cover? Thank you.
2024
Modern Greek. Thank you.
Hello... your introduction for this video is simple but informative. I hope as i journey with you Ill be able to read, understand and comprehend simple words or sentences in Greek..
By the way, you pronounce 'M' as 'me'. I ve watced greek videos and 'M' is pronounced 'mu'. If you could tell me why, please. Thanks
Dear Reyna, I'm glad you found the introduction helpful! If you're dedicated to learning Greek, you'll do more than just comprehend simple sentences!
The reason for the difference in pronunciation is because there are actually two pronunciation systems that you might encounter when trying to learn Greek, though only one is appropriate for Modern Greek. When you hear someone pronouncing ᾽μ᾽ as "mu," they are teaching what is called the Erasmian Pronunciation. Erasmian Pronunciation is a reconstruction of what ANCIENT Greek sounded like, and is not reflective of how Modern Greeks speak the language. This series of videos teaches you how to pronounce Greek as it is pronounced by native Greek speakers today, and it is the correct pronunciation to learn unless you're interested STRICTLY in Ancient Greek. I hope that helps!
@@thegreekacademy3643 Oww, okay. Got it! Thank you.
You deserve MORE subscribers!
@@thegreekacademy3643 This is actually not true. Erasmus asked a Greek to tell him how to read the letters, because he wanted to translate the Bible. The Greek mocked him and told him other things than the truth. But that stayed in the books and that barbaric accent passed. At the end of his life Erasmus - after he had spoken to serious Greeks Byzantine grammarians - admitted his mistake and formally apologized. But the damage was already done. Greek has never dramatically changed its pronunciation and the way it is spoken. Besides, those who have kept the language for so many thousands of years know better.
Thank you for your comment! My response to Reynaa was not an attempt to analyze the pronunciation of Greek over miles and millenia, but rather to simplify and prepare them for the different pronunciation systems they will encounter as they scour the internet trying to learn Greek (these are, indeed, Erasmian and the Received pronunciation). Of course, the debate about AG pronunciation rages on, and I suspect that we share some similar views - I personally am not a fan of Erasmian even for AG, and prefer that AG is taught with the Received Pronunciation. If anyone else reads this comment and is interested in "pop scholarship" on the topic of pronunciation, "Greek: A History of the Language and Its Speakers" by Geoffrey Horrocks is a wonderful introduction.@@ΑπόλλωνΘηρευτής
Let's say you are blind and you want to know about the color of the sky.
Are you going to ask another blind person, who also like you has never felt what the blue color looks like, or a seen person, who can explain you that blue looks like the water of the ocean ? So you might have an idea of the blue ?
As a native greek speaker, I'm telling you that M reads and sounds like "me," not as "moouu," and N reads and sounds like "knee," not like NOU, NOU which is actually a brand of Dutch concentrate milk 😅
Me
Knee
Remember these.
Muchas Gracias señor
will this help in reading Koine Greek?
Thanks sir 👍🙏🙏🙏I'm Indian
So, why is the beta marked like a tricky sound? It looks like a B,sounds like a B. It's B in my Brain. Thanks fot these videos!
It is not pronounced as a B but as a v as in video
Your comment proofs that it tricked you !
Here is why.
B looks like B, but in greek makes the V sound.
So in greek, we say " BAR BAR IAN " as " ΒΑΡ ΒΑΡ ΟΣ " but pronounce " VAR VAR OS "
Hebrew”s Aleph Bet is much older than Greek. It was a hyroglyph, number, and aleph-bet. Greek’s alpha bet is a derivative of Hebrew.
Or, do both hearken to Phoenician for aleph-bet/alpha-beta?
No
This was a great lesson, but you forgot to tell us the meaning of all the new words. If anyone can add them, that would be helpful.
The words on the first 3 columns are not actually greek words. They are only combinations of letters, to tech you what sound you need to produce with your mouth, when you see those letters. ζοφ ξοφ μοφ are like zof ksof mof etc.
Only the last column are real Greek words. But because I don't remember them, I cannot give you the meaning. But here is what you can do.
Re-watch the video, and write each word on a piece of paper. It will be a good practice to write some greek letters !
Then type those letters from the paper you wrote them into Google translator and behold ! You have the meaning in English.
Need less to say that you must have installed the greek keyboard on your computer or smartphone, witch can be done very easily in a matter of 5 seconds.
Just install a foreign keyboard, and choose the greek.
Italian can sneak its way into languages, but Latin takes a lot of Greek vocabulary. Greek can easily read Cyrillic words
Cyrillos was Greek
@@darladallddoria143 *Dj Khalid voice* you're smart
it's very helpful 👑
It is phonetically very similar to Spanish wow😳
Thank you
Thanks
Thank you very much 😊
Wasn't Phoenician the first alphabet?
Great question! The Phoenician system is technically classified as an "abjad," which means that vowels are not explicit in the script. Many of the Phoenician characters were indeed adopted by the Greeks when they developed their alphabet.
@thegreekacademy3643 thank you for your answer!! I just started learning Greek and your videos are so helpful!
Woooow 😊thank u
You are good. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
So, there's no B in Greek?
Beta
There is the letter B but it makes the V sound.
Now when we Greeks want to make the English B sound we use a combination of letters which when they sound together the sound similar to B.
The combination is M and P.
So when an English speaker says Blue, we Greeks write MPLU and in greek ΜΠΛU
So your B becoms our ΜΠ
And your V becomes our B
7:50 No! "X" in Greek ≠ "h"! "X" in Greek = "Ch" in Scots and German or "X" in Russian.
Should have given the English word for each animal. But very good.
Thank you Nickolas! That's a great idea, maybe in the future we'll do a vocab-focused video on animals. It's always fun to discover that the word hippopotamus really just means "river horse" in Greek!
The words on the first 3 columns are not actually greek words. They are only combinations of letters to teach you what sound you need to produce with your mouth when you see those letters. ζοφ ξοφ μοφ are like zof ksof mof etc.
Only the last column are real Greek words. But because I don't remember them, I can not give you the meaning. But here is what you can do.
Re-watch the video, and write each word on a piece of paper. It will be a good practice to write some greek letters !
Then, type those letters from the paper you wrote them into Google translator and behold ! You have the meaning in English.
Need less to say that you must have installed the greek keyboard on your computer or smartphone, which can be done very easily in a matter of 5 seconds.
Just install a foreign keyboard, and choose the greek.
I listen to Thanos Kokkalis and I wish he would add captions.