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Beginning to read Greek · Lesson 2

Breathings, accents, and reading aloud

The small marks above and below the letters: what they mean, which ones change the word, and how to read them.

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Beginning to read Greek

Six short lessons from the alphabet to the first line of the Odyssey. No prior Greek assumed.

  1. The alphabet
  2. Breathings, accents, and reading aloud
  3. How Greek works
  4. Nouns and the article
  5. Verbs in the present
  6. Reading your first lines