Greek Alphabet Cards

ARandomerDude an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Get a decent Greek grammar book and go through the first couple chapters, even if you don’t plan to complete the book. After completing the exercises you’ll be amazed by how quickly the Greek alphabet stuck. Repeat every 10 years if necessary.

	▲	pjmlp 34 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		As Portuguese that was of great help, given the amount of words with Greek roots, understanding the alphabet automatically made me available several words that I already knew. Naturally had to skill up on everything else.
	▲	nephihaha 13 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The problem is that the ancient and modern Greek alphabets are slightly different. The ancient pronunciations map more easily on to our alphabet. I find the modern ones less intuitive e.g. beta being a V sound. There is an example below, where someone writes Bravo in modern Greek, and uses "mu beta" for the "b" sound and "beta" for the "v" sound.

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mwexler 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Very handy. My math education would have gone much better if my notes weren't full of "lambda is the half stickman; sigma is upside down Q or broken E" and other really silly things

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gobdovan an hour ago | parent [-]

Yeah, they should mark the Greek alphabet as a mandatory prerequisite for college math. It had an unreasonable effect on how quickly I was processing notation-heavy math after learning some Greek for going on a trip over there.

	▲	nephihaha 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		As I say above, the issue is that modern Greek pronounces some letters very differently. We use the classical pronunciation in maths etc.

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russum 19 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Are there good sets out there for other languages: English, German, etc?

	▲	unkeen 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		This is about memorizing foreign letters.

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NooneAtAll3 30 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wish cards like these didn't stop at ONE letter

a lot of reading skill is in connecting one letter to the next, syllable-grouped

teaching should incorporate that

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jnmandal 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Μπράβο ρε. Πόσο όμορφο

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Avijit_Thawani 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Fascinating! I assume Mandarin is one of the other two languages your kids are learning, in which case you may be interested or have already seen Chineasy app and book, for a similar experience with Hanzi.

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EstanislaoStan 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I read this whole article like you were going to teach them Ancient Greek, but now I'm guessing modern is more likely?

Anyway, some of my strongest language class memories from college are from translating parts of the Odyssey and New Testament.

	▲	stavros 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah these cards have modern Greek words on them.

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iandanforth an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have similar projects in mind. How were these printed?

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romeinaday an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

no download or buy link?

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epilys 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> However, I haven’t found any such cards for Greek characters, so I think mine are the first in Greek.

Huh? A simple web search shows many, many, many results.

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EstanislaoStan 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I tried searching and even had Claude search in modern Greek and didn't find specifically cards with objects shaped like the letters.

Can you share what you found?

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tokai an hour ago | parent [-]

Search for Greek Flashcards.

	▲	EstanislaoStan an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Just did and still not seeing exactly what OP has made where the object looks like the letter. There are a few where the letters are abused to vaguely look like (use same texture) objects. Maybe my Google foo sucks but could someone actually link what they're seeing?