Ancient Greek alphabet?!

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DD (Percy Jackson/mythology obsessed) wants to learn the Ancient Greek alphabet. I am easily confused though and on Google/YouTube etc keep seeing different pronunciations as it's different for modern Greek. Beta = veta etc.

Is the 'popular' pronunciation for alpha beta gamma etc ok for just recognising/naming the characters? Or is that now seen as wrong? Once she knows the names we will do the actual letter sounds but not expecting to go further than that.

If anyone has any ideas or simple resource recommendations I'd be really grateful!

Wikipedia seems a pretty good place to start:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet
All the names listed in the first table read the way I would expect.

Funnily enough, it's from doing a Maths degree that I'm familiar with them: after exhausting Roman letters for variable names, we worked through most of the Greek ones!

This is a free teaching website from the Open University for learning the Ancient Greek alphabet and how to spell words using said Ancient Greek alphabet. It has a "learning" section and then games and exercises to consolidate that knowledge. Really it's supposed to be a preparation resource for their Intro to Ancient Greek course so it's all very accessible but it does give a good grounding in the basics. Greek I would encourage her in this-a smattering of Greek is really useful for all sorts of things.

Thank you!

It's good to know the wiki link is good as it was one I looked at but got confused when it was different to others. Like you Dad much of my Greek alphabet knowledge comes from maths!

That OU link looks great, I'll have a play with it on the kindle :)

I'm not expecting to get very far with it just yet - she's only 10, is autistic and has probable learning difficulties too but this is something she enjoys so I'm going with it, anything that increases her confidence has to be a winner really. So we will start with learning the characters and see where it leads. She is home educated but if we get to GCSE stage she will most likely be wanting to do Classics if her interests stay the same. :)

I consider myself lucky to have done O Level Greek. We were an experimental year, studying Greek instead of Latin.

That's great! I would love to learn it properly someday. Looks really complex though

Memrise has a course as well.

www.memrise.com/course/77649/ancient-greek-alphabet/

I did O and A-level Greek. Good luck to your DD Op, it's a great skill. The alphabet she will have sorted in a few hours I am sure.

I think your dd's interest is very similar to my ds, who has asd traits.I saw on the other thread your dd is interested in Latin as well. My ds is learning to sing in Latin.(game related) He always wanted to learn Greek alphabet(also game related), but never really crossed my mind to search on memrise. There seems to be lots of courses on there, and my ds is very excited!.