Comments on: Help from all you that can fluently speak Greek? http://lessonsgreek.com/help-from-all-you-that-can-fluently-speak-greek.html The Greek language online. Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jeannie http://lessonsgreek.com/help-from-all-you-that-can-fluently-speak-greek.html/comment-page-1#comment-848 Jeannie Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:01:35 +0000 http://lessonsgreek.com/help-from-all-you-that-can-fluently-speak-greek.html#comment-848 The very first thing you have to do is memorize all 24 letters of the Greek alphabet. You have to be able to say each letter (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, etc to omega), read, and write it. You can't really do anything until you master the alphabet. That is why they teach children the ABC song, and show both upper and lowercase letters on the walls in the classroom. Children cannot learn to read until they know the alphabet. There are two lowercase sigmas - one is medial (written in the middle of a word) and the other is final (always at the end of a word). The very first thing you have to do is memorize all 24 letters of the Greek alphabet. You have to be able to say each letter (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, etc to omega), read, and write it. You can’t really do anything until you master the alphabet. That is why they teach children the ABC song, and show both upper and lowercase letters on the walls in the classroom. Children cannot learn to read until they know the alphabet.

There are two lowercase sigmas – one is medial (written in the middle of a word) and the other is final (always at the end of a word).

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