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Date: Jun 6, 2005 - 10:43
These exercises to the Introductory Lesson in Ancient Greek are totally about the reading and writing of the Greek language. There will be no translation exercise whatsoever in this set of exercises.
To do these exercises, especially the parts where writing of the Greek letters/words is asked, you can best write your work on a piece of white paper and scan then into .JPG image files before emailing them to your didaskalos. The email address and other details about how, when and to whom to send tour homework will be given in the special posts in the The Hellenike Paideia Ancient Greek Course Homework Assignment Board.
Please, read and work out carefully the following exercises:
1. Here are some Greek words given. Do the following three things: a. read the words out loud; b. copy the words in Greek in your own handwriting; c. write the words out in Latin lettering(i.e. the lettering used in English; if you know how to write them out phonetically, you can do this instead of the common Latin lettering):

2. Do the same as in exercise 1 with the following Greek words:

3. Here are a few Greek words given. Do the following: write these Greek words in full capital Greek letters. Please, note the following: when Greek words are written in full capitals, NO spiritus or accents are used!

4. Here are a few words given in Latin lettering. Note that the 'accent circonflexe' denotes a long letter, i.e. an alpha, eta or omega. 'aj' with 'accent circonflexe' is the same as 'aay' given in the introductory lesson. Now, write these words down in Greek small letters:

That's it! Please, take care of practising the writing of the Greek letters. It's nice to be able to produce them online in html coding, but your first aim will have to be the practising of the writing (and reading!)of the Greek language.
Greek examples have been taken from this source:
Mekking, T. & Oranje, H., Een Nieuwe Basis, Cursus Grieks voor Beginners, Amsterdam, 2001.
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