Read and Write Greek Script: A Teach Yourself Guide

by Sheila Hunt, Dennis Couniacis

Now learning non-Roman-alphabet languages is as easy as A-B-C!

"Read and Write Greek Script" will help you read and write simple Greek. This book is a step-by-step introduction to the script that will enable you to read Greek signs, notices, advertisements and headlines. Even if you think learning the script is a daunting prospect, this book will make it simple. The alphabet is introduced in stages and there's lots of practice of each new character before the next one is introduced. There are plenty of example words and phrases that are seen everywhere in any Greek-speaking environment so you can familiarize yourself with the most common signs and directions. By the end of the book, you will be reading and writing simple Greek with confidence and be prepared for your next trip to Greece or further study of the language.

Features: One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started Author insights for lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience Useful vocabulary, easy to find and learn, to build a solid foundation for speaking Extra online articles at teachyourself.com to give a richer understanding of the Greek culture

160 pages, Paperback

First published October 12, 2010

Reviews

[Liang]

This is a pretty good book for a crash course in the Greek alphabet. There are so many exercises, but I didn't do them all. Got out of it what I needed within the first half of the book.

They start off introducing you to the uppercase letters. You start practicing with the ones that have the same sound as its English counterpart. Next, you learn the ones that look like English letters but are pronounced differently, as well as the characters that don't exist in the English alphabet. There are only 24 letters. Around 4 or so chapters, after some reading practice, you become quickly familiarised with the 24 characters.

You are also introduced to letter combos such as: OY, EI, AI, AY, EY, OI, NT, and a few more (that I can't type out with my English keyboard at the moment). It doesn't take long to get used to them with the reading examples.

Lastly, you learn the lowercase letters. Some of them look similar to its uppercase equivalent, whereas others don't. After another half an hour of reading and writing practice, you get used to it really fast.

Spent roughly 4 hrs of solid work on it in total. I can now start dabbling in the spoken Greek language. Let's just hope I find the Greek grammar relatively straight forward! :)

[Dylan Leifer-Ives]

In 197 pages it… well.. it teaches you to read and write Greek. Good exercises

[Valerie]

I started this book already knowing a bit of the upper-case Greek alphabet. I finished being able to sound out pretty much any Greek word I came across. I think it's a great book to start with and I've recommended it to my dad, who has been discouraged by a popular audio learning set. This book has interesting little bits of information about Greek culture and gives you plenty of exercises to practice and mini-tests at the end of each unit.

[Krystelle (based on the novel by Stephen King)]

Worth the read, and definitely helpful for me to have in my back pocket while moving towards a comprehension of Ancient Greek. The exercises are really good too! Definitely builds some helpful fundamentals.

[Berke Derelioğlu]

Essential

If you do struggle to understand the Greek letters, I highly recommend to go on with it. I purchased the kindle version which was relatively practical and cheaper.