PRACTICE DRILLS

Alphabet Practice
  • Alphabet recitation. Listen and learn to recite the Greek alphabet from memory.
  • Alphabet crossword. Have fun working on a Greek alphabet crossword puzzle. Print out the puzzle and complete it, then check your answers. I am indebted to Greek 'n' Stuff for this activity.
  • Alphabet quiz. Probably the best Greek alphabet site on the web is Alphabet grec by François J. Bayard; but unfortunately it is a French site. By permission of the author, I have adapted the testing feature of this site for English speakers. Note that Monsieur Bayard has divided the alphabet into five categories that correspond with some of the categories we have learned above: liquids (Beta Band), gutturals (Gamma Group), dentals (Delta Division), continuants (Lambda Legion), and vowels (Vowels).
Sounds of Greek Practice
The following drills are provided to help you master the sounds of Greek.
  • Vowel drill. Follow along with RealAudio in order to cement the vowel sounds of Greek in your mind.
  • Diphthong drill. A similar drill for diphthongs.
  • Vowel and diphthong drill. Here you will find all of the vowel and consonant sounds together in one drill.
  • Words. Pronounce some Greek words that you may already know.
  • Names. Pronounce some names found in the Greek New Testament.

p52 John Rylands fragment

Typing Greek Practice
You may want to print out a copy of the BibleWorks Keyboard Map in order to do the following exercise.
  • Type-along. This is a typing exercise to help you learn to type with the BibleWorks Greek font. (Either click on this link, or right-click on it and select Save Target As... to save the file to a location on your computer.) This is a Word 2000 document.
Textbook Exercises
Make sure to do the exercises in the textbook (Black, Learn §11).

I have provided an audio companion to exercises b. and d. Follow along in the textbook as I recite the words and sentences in these exercises.

Click on the RealAudio icon:

 

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