LESSON 1
History of the Greek Language, from its origin to Alexander the Great. Please, listen to the audio.
please, read the pdf too: Lesson 1 – History of the Greek Language
GREEK GRAMMAR HIGHLIGHTS
The Alphabet
The Greek alphabet is an ancient writing system that was first used in Greece around 800 BCE. It is still in use today, particularly in science, mathematics, and other academic fields. The Greek alphabet has 24 letters,
Watch this video to learn how to pronunce the Greek letters according to the Koinè pronunciation, which we will use for the sake of conveniente in this course.
This other video will be very useful.
Here is the transliteration of the Greek alphabet, the correspondent letters in our alphabet. Transliteration will be useful: to begin to become familiar with the alphabet and will help us reading words at the beginning.
In order to become acquainted with the Greek alphabet, I strongly suggest the reader to watch (several times) this video or similar ones,
Please, exercise as you see in the video. This is boring, tiresome maybe. I know. But once you have become familiar with the Greek alphabet, the journey will be exciting.
EXERCISE
Transliterate into our Alphabet the following Greek words.
Please, listen to the pronunciation of the words first.
Χριστός – Christ
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εὐαγγέλιον – gospel
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κύριος – Lord
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Ἰησοῦς – Jesus
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πίστις – faith
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ἁμαρτία – sin
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βασιλεία – kingdom
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ἀγάπη – love
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πνεῦμα – spirit
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σωτηρία – salvation
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