My Greek teacher made me listen to it in the first year, to introduce Greek. I'm now in the second year and we need to learn and repeat the alphabet. Of course I use this song!
Very good. I am trying to teach my 2y old son the Greek alphabet ( as he already knows the English one ) and as a Greek myself, i can say that it is the best song found and the closest you can get to the accurate pronunciation!
You are correct Rolando - I mention "Erasmian" in the description. I added the "koine" to the title because I was getting so many negative comments from native Greek speakers, so I just wanted to clarify in the title that I wasn't doing the modern Greek alphabet
Thank you so much for this! I'm learning koine Greek, and this has been a huge help. I'm impressed with your patience with the posters who don't take the time to read comments or the description before posting.
First, I'm a Harry Potter lover too! I'm not an archaeologist, but I am a Biblical scholar and teach Biblical Greek. My pronunciation is correct for Koine Greek. But Greek changed over time and modern Greek is different today. Saying "eye" for pie, phi is an anglicization/americanization of the pronunciation. Hope this helps!
I have been looking for a catchy Greek Alphabet song because I suck at memorization and I needed some help and this is one of my favorites currently lol
For the nay-sayers, Berkley also has a site for the sounds of attic Greek. This is pretty much the Erasmian method. Search for "berkley attic greek pronunciation"
Thanks for this! I was trying to find an easy way to remember the alphabet using the same pronunciation I'm learning for biblical greek. This is so helpful!
FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW THE WORD (KOINE) IT MEANS ''COMMON'' IN ENGLISH AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT ESTABILISHED THAT WHEN HE CREATE HIS EMPIRE...κοινή(common) in greek.BUT ALSO THESE LANGUAGE WAS SPOKEN BEFORE THE ACTS OF ALEXANDER BY THE ATHENIANS,SPARTANS,MACEDONIANS AND OTHER SMALL KINGDOMS OF THAT TIME.
so its 11:30 pm I have school tomorrow and instead of sleeping ive decided ill start learning tonight and this video is great! your voice is really good too! great way to get started! im going to athens next year maybe
@SchnauzerGR you studied ancient greek in school in Greece and you did it using MODERN pronunciation. On the other hand worldwide generally ancient Greek is studied with the Erasmian pronunciation, that is different from modern pronunciation. Neither modern nor erasmian pronunciation are the way Greek was spoken back 2000 or 2500 years ago. The same occurs with modern and classic latin pronunciation
Thanks so much for this! I'm learning Greek in a club at school and its helped us all learn the alphabet really quick! Thanks again this is great I can recite the whole alphabet now! :)
Finally some clarity on why i was finding different pronunciations! See i WANT to learn the New Testament Greek, Not modern Greek! So Thanks!:) this helps alot!
Thanks Rania. I did try to provide some justification within the description. I have toyed with the idea of creating another version using the "restored koine" pronunciation, but it is also not quite modern Greek.
@silenteyesspy Thanks for your kind (and slightly racist) words. If you would take a minute to read both the description and the comments, you would see that this is part of a package for teaching koine Greek, in order to read the New Testament. There are numerous theories and modern reconstructions for how Greek at the turn of the era may have been pronounced. The most popular method used for Koine Greek is called "The Erasmian Method" of pronunciation. That is what is used here.
@TheMineManiac Thanks for the info. It isn't quite clear from the title or description, but this is part of a package for teaching koine Greek, specifically for those wanting to read the New Testament. We don't really know how they spoke dead languages. Most koine Greek teachers follow Erasmian pronunciation, others follow modern Greek. All that to say, it wasn't meant for learning modern Greek :-) I make no claim to knowing modern Greek - I wish they were identical though !
Dear Danny, This is not a comment I just wanted to reply on your reply (whithout having the intention to keep doing that and waste your time :) ) I am aware of the Erasmian Pronunciation. However, in Greek schools we never learn about it and we pronounce the ancient texts with the modern pronunciation. I beleive that there must be some scientific or at least sensible reasons behind that.
To conclude, as regards with Sciences in general and in particular with Social Sciences (like linguistics, phonology etc) there is a degree of acceptance and/or a possibility of the findings being true.These should always be presented first to avoid confusions!
@SchnauzerGR Please read all of my previous comments. Let me reiterate - I KNOW THIS ISN'T MODERN PRONUNCIATION. It is based on the Erasmian method of pronunciation, used primarily for those who are learning in order to read NT Greek, not speak it. For the record, I am not a native speaker of koine Greek. Neither is anyone else who has criticized- it was 2,000 years ago :-) I've tried to make this clear in the name of the song, in the description, and comments. Sorry for misleading anyone.
awesome song... thank you so much for sharing. I'm trying to learn how to pronounce the Greek alphabet and you make sound very easy... other videos I found confused me more... Thank you again.
@christy14141 Thanks for your kind words, I'm the idiot that sang this !! But you may want to ask what idiot taught you :-) I'm utilizing Erasmian pronunciation, used by the majority of Koine Greek scholars. I don't blame your misunderstanding, I actually learned it the way you are describing too, but that is an anglicization of the pronunciation. If you read the comments you'll see that some think we're both wrong !! do you also say ksee for ξ? And eye-oat-a for ι ?
Hi Harry Potter lover. The way you were taught is an "americanized" pronunciation. The letter i in most languages is an "eee" sound, not an "eye" sound
Hi. I tried to be unobtrusive in the annotation I added. This video is part of a collection I have published, and I hope that users will check out and maybe purchase the whole package.
ok to be clear to everyone, use your heads. IF you have to compare the ancient Greek accent with English accent and the modern Greek accent, which one would you prefer? ACCENT always varies from place to place where they all speak the same language, why this would be different 2000 years ago?? It would be even more intense. Modern Greek accent is the closest we have to ancient Greek pronunciation, period
how could you possibly know how greek was pronounced 2000 years ago? the only thing we know for certain is what we assume from writing mistakes such as assimilation of ei, oi or eta with the sound of iota. Also greek transcriptions of latin names and vice versa is of some help but not really reliable since we do not know either how latin was spoken back 2000 years ago. don't presume to know how greek was spoken because you are greek (don't get me wrong, I am greek too)
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That US accent is so strong
+Komnenit Well I'm from Canada, so I guess I sound American when I sing :-)
I liked the accent And the song, and learned better + faster with song!
My Greek teacher made me listen to it in the first year, to introduce Greek. I'm now in the second year and we need to learn and repeat the alphabet. Of course I use this song!
Very good. I am trying to teach my 2y old son the Greek alphabet ( as he already knows the English one ) and as a Greek myself, i can say that it is the best song found and the closest you can get to the accurate pronunciation!
You are correct Rolando - I mention "Erasmian" in the description.
I added the "koine" to the title because I was getting so many negative comments from native Greek speakers, so I just wanted to clarify in the title that I wasn't doing the modern Greek alphabet
Dude..you Rock!!!! My biblical Greek classmates are using this and we love you. Great proninciation too.
Love it!
Thank you so much for this! I'm learning koine Greek, and this has been a huge help. I'm impressed with your patience with the posters who don't take the time to read comments or the description before posting.
First, I'm a Harry Potter lover too! I'm not an archaeologist, but I am a Biblical scholar and teach Biblical Greek. My pronunciation is correct for Koine Greek. But Greek changed over time and modern Greek is different today.
Saying "eye" for pie, phi is an anglicization/americanization of the pronunciation. Hope this helps!
I have been looking for a catchy Greek Alphabet song because I suck at memorization and I needed some help and this is one of my favorites currently lol
Thanks! Check out the rest of the bunch - song is a great method of pronunciation (if you're learning biblical Greek).
For the nay-sayers, Berkley also has a site for the sounds of attic Greek. This is pretty much the Erasmian method. Search for "berkley attic greek pronunciation"
Dude, that cowbell helps kinda, also, i have a test tomorrow, wish me luck (and thanks for making this awesome song)
Thanks by: the spacekitty (meep)
Thanks for this! I was trying to find an easy way to remember the alphabet using the same pronunciation I'm learning for biblical greek. This is so helpful!
I need more cow bell PLEASE, and Thank you for the song it's a catchy tone!
FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW THE WORD (KOINE) IT MEANS ''COMMON'' IN ENGLISH AND ALEXANDER THE GREAT ESTABILISHED THAT WHEN HE CREATE HIS EMPIRE...κοινή(common) in greek.BUT ALSO THESE LANGUAGE WAS SPOKEN BEFORE THE ACTS OF ALEXANDER BY THE ATHENIANS,SPARTANS,MACEDONIANS AND OTHER SMALL KINGDOMS OF THAT TIME.
so its 11:30 pm I have school tomorrow and instead of sleeping ive decided ill start learning tonight and this video is great! your voice is really good too! great way to get started! im going to athens next year maybe
I love the SNL "More Cowbell" Reference!
digging that cowbell, man.
Thanks Danny for putting this out there. Helps me.
@SchnauzerGR you studied ancient greek in school in Greece and you did it using MODERN pronunciation. On the other hand worldwide generally ancient Greek is studied with the Erasmian pronunciation, that is different from modern pronunciation. Neither modern nor erasmian pronunciation are the way Greek was spoken back 2000 or 2500 years ago. The same occurs with modern and classic latin pronunciation
Thanks so much for this! I'm learning Greek in a club at school and its helped us all learn the alphabet really quick! Thanks again this is great I can recite the whole alphabet now! :)
love the cowbell, and it helps a lot! tnx!
Very good, cowbell and all!
Finally a video that has the pronounciation of p right. My Greek professor told us this way but every other video I watch has it as pie.
Thanks. I won't be updating this no as it utilizes the Erasmian method of pronunciation, as stated in the description.
Finally some clarity on why i was finding different pronunciations! See i WANT to learn the New Testament Greek, Not modern Greek! So Thanks!:) this helps alot!
It is the ancient names of the letters yes. The names and sounds have changed in modern Greek
Thanks Rania. I did try to provide some justification within the description. I have toyed with the idea of creating another version using the "restored koine" pronunciation, but it is also not quite modern Greek.
I'm trying to learn koine Greek and this is such help. It's kind of silly, but it still helps.
So cute!!! Thank you for this nice song...Makes me long back to good old days when learning the Greek alphabet in class.
@twilightaddict1414 I'm an English speaker so I know my accent isn't right. And it was made to be fun, so I'm glad it made you smile :-)
thanks very much! Check out the rest of the Singing Grammarian collection for learning more New Testament Greek
this is my favrite song
@silenteyesspy Thanks for your kind (and slightly racist) words. If you would take a minute to read both the description and the comments, you would see that this is part of a package for teaching koine Greek, in order to read the New Testament. There are numerous theories and modern reconstructions for how Greek at the turn of the era may have been pronounced. The most popular method used for Koine Greek is called "The Erasmian Method" of pronunciation. That is what is used here.
Thanks :-) Check out the rest of the collection too !
@TheMineManiac Thanks for the info. It isn't quite clear from the title or description, but this is part of a package for teaching koine Greek, specifically for those wanting to read the New Testament. We don't really know how they spoke dead languages. Most koine Greek teachers follow Erasmian pronunciation, others follow modern Greek. All that to say, it wasn't meant for learning modern Greek :-) I make no claim to knowing modern Greek - I wish they were identical though !
Dear Danny,
This is not a comment I just wanted to reply on your reply (whithout having the intention to keep doing that and waste your time :) )
I am aware of the Erasmian Pronunciation. However, in Greek schools we never learn about it and we pronounce the ancient texts with the modern pronunciation. I beleive that there must be some scientific or at least sensible reasons behind that.
our greek teacher uses this for us to learn greek its awesome!
To conclude, as regards with Sciences in general and in particular with Social Sciences (like linguistics, phonology etc) there is a degree of acceptance and/or a possibility of the findings being true.These should always be presented first to avoid confusions!
I just listened to this on loop for 25 mins, hope it helped.
Thanks for this, but I already sing to the standard "Twinkle". To each his own; my wife gives me weird looks when I sing it, though.
great this song
@SchnauzerGR Please read all of my previous comments. Let me reiterate - I KNOW THIS ISN'T MODERN PRONUNCIATION. It is based on the Erasmian method of pronunciation, used primarily for those who are learning in order to read NT Greek, not speak it. For the record, I am not a native speaker of koine Greek. Neither is anyone else who has criticized- it was 2,000 years ago :-)
I've tried to make this clear in the name of the song, in the description, and comments. Sorry for misleading anyone.
Awesome, thanks. this will make a great puppet show using Koine greek.
this is awesome! thanks for putting it to music
@danzac1979 just to know this is how you have to pronounce the greek alphabet letters and for the record it made me smile to :-)
@johnthetraveler Thanks. I hope the rest of the songs in the package are helpful for you too !
this video is nice! i'am learning this verry quick
This is Tudelei feb 6 18. And this was helpful for ms.lees class
Verry nice!! our Greek teacher use it to learn us the greek alphabet!
I..uh..am sitting at my kitchen table at midnight..singing this. Thanks..no..really..thanks.
Steven Teel You're welcome :-)
Thanks very much! Let your teacher know about The Singing Grammarian !
I've got a fever...and the prescription is...MORE COWBELL!!!
Seymour Butts 😂😂
awesome song... thank you so much for sharing. I'm trying to learn how to pronounce the Greek alphabet and you make sound very easy... other videos I found confused me more... Thank you again.
ya mine too we have a test on Wednesday and i have been using this to study
I'm using the Erasmian method of Koine Greek pronunciation
@christy14141 Thanks for your kind words, I'm the idiot that sang this !! But you may want to ask what idiot taught you :-) I'm utilizing Erasmian pronunciation, used by the majority of Koine Greek scholars. I don't blame your misunderstanding, I actually learned it the way you are describing too, but that is an anglicization of the pronunciation. If you read the comments you'll see that some think we're both wrong !! do you also say ksee for ξ? And eye-oat-a for ι ?
Thank you - it is a great help - 1000 thumbs up
Thanks for this! The cadence makes it easier to remember. God Bless!
Thanks for the (backhanded) complement :-) Please see the description for why the pronunciation is different.
This is very nic to learn Greek, I like it!
Hi Harry Potter lover. The way you were taught is an "americanized" pronunciation. The letter i in most languages is an "eee" sound, not an "eye" sound
This really helped me to learn the Greek Alphabet, thanks for this song!
Omg this helped sooo much! Thank you sooo much for making this!
For a long time I was searching for a song like this because i have greek on school and I couldn't remember it
Thanks for this. LOVE it!
FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW THE WORD (KOINE) IT MEANS COMMON IN ENGLISH.
Love it!
@christy14141 Great! Good luck with the rest of your studies!
And.... In modern greek... Beta sounds like V....
The B sound is a result of the connection of M+P ^_^
I hope that helps =3
LOVE the cowbell!!! ROTFL!!! Thanks for this, BTW. :)
Hi. I tried to be unobtrusive in the annotation I added. This video is part of a collection I have published, and I hope that users will check out and maybe purchase the whole package.
Why would you put advertisements over the text you are teaching?
it's so perfect!
This was so helpful!!
ok to be clear to everyone, use your heads.
IF you have to compare the ancient Greek accent with English accent and the modern Greek accent, which one would you prefer? ACCENT always varies from place to place where they all speak the same language, why this would be different 2000 years ago?? It would be even more intense.
Modern Greek accent is the closest we have to ancient Greek pronunciation, period
Do you have a better page you would recommend?
@TheMineManiac you mean modern Greek?
thanks, you have helped me a lot, because i have to learn it for school
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@danzac1979 oh...well thanks for being so cool about it...and the song actually kinda helped me learn it even though i pronounce it differently lol
@danzac1979: You're welcome :) so the greeks themselves don't know what it would have sounded like? and how did these theories come about
good
Thanks for this comment. Would you mind educating me on where Erasmus makes these comments?
@JakeOfAllTrades17 it is how some scholars imagine it was said
@missfairytale2011 They were not pronounced wrong, these are how they were pronounced a long time ago
how could you possibly know how greek was pronounced 2000 years ago? the only thing we know for certain is what we assume from writing mistakes such as assimilation of ei, oi or eta with the sound of iota. Also greek transcriptions of latin names and vice versa is of some help but not really reliable since we do not know either how latin was spoken back 2000 years ago. don't presume to know how greek was spoken because you are greek (don't get me wrong, I am greek too)
I learn Greek on school but there theet say "eta" not "zeta" ??
He's absolutely right. It's different from Modern Greek.
Nice
What fun.
Thanks for the Greek lesson. :)
Are you the Danny Zacharias at Acadia?
Same here, bro!
oh ok! I was just basing it off of the Greek alphabet song I learned at school, but thanks!
awsome
I had a 20/20 on my Greek exam because i listened this music!
It stayed in my head so i could answer all the questions and get a 20/20!
Of course.
Belgium!
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You?
Manga&Gaming ik spreek ook Nederlands :)
Very good. Very, very good. Kai very good.
thanks :-)
how fun !
really helped!
Enjoyed this you funny guys.