https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/07/everybody-needs-to-do-this-lea/ Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:55:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/07/everybody-needs-to-do-this-lea/#comment-1457 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:55:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/07/everybody-needs-to-do-this-lea/#comment-1457 Yeah everyone SHOULD learn the American pronunciations, but the Greek pronunciations really are spectacularly different!For example “beta” is more like “veeta” when pronounced correctly! “Pi” is “pee”. And “delta” is more like “thelta”, but the th is soft.Still this is useful for people doing math and science, not people learning greek 🙂

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/07/everybody-needs-to-do-this-lea/#comment-1456 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:31:49 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/07/everybody-needs-to-do-this-lea/#comment-1456 This is painful to listen to! I learned the Greek alphabet from a Greek. The pronunciations are utterly different.Besides, my teacher was gorgeous, and with a voice like honey…ack! Had to stop before minute 4…

]]> https://gregladen.com/blog/2007/12/07/everybody-needs-to-do-this-lea/#comment-1455 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:10:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/12/07/everybody-needs-to-do-this-lea/#comment-1455 As a Classics professor who teaches classical Greek and Latin, thank you!

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