How to Write the Greek Alphabet | Super Easy Greek 33

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Production: Dimitris Hall
Subtitles: Ioanna Mantopoulou & Dimitris Hall
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[@joannamyrcha6279]

I'm just about to start my Greek classes in just a few days, so this is super helpful for me 😍😍 thank you!

[@EasyGreekVideos]

Happy to help!

[@imponderabiliaon3928]

Greek is so beautiful 💕💕

[@EasyGreekVideos]

Yes ! Marilou

[@golden_smaug]

Τι ωραίο είναι το ελληνικό αλφάβητο!

[@Grihlo]

Υπέροχα! Ευχαριστώ πολύ! I like Greek letters and we are used to write most of them since school times. Not because we studied Greek, but math, phisics, chemistry, ecc.

[@StephanieShtein]

same! i was surprised with how much Greek i knew just doing my undergrad in physics!

[@Xargxes]

Thanks a lot! Can you do a video on how to write in cursive Greek? I.e., how to write connected letters. I've always wanted to learn such a script.

[@EasyGreekVideos]

That's really beyond my capabilities I'm afraid... but you can try this video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a57FimCDbbOmb5o

[@apilozoerazo]

Thank you lots, Dimitris! I was looking for a video explaining how to write in greek, and here Easy Greek is to the rescue!

[@EasyGreekVideos]

We felt it in the water, we smelled it in the air!

[@antoniovisk]

I'd like to speake Greek the way you do. Προσπαθώ ξανά και ξανά να μάθω. It's really wanderful to listen to the sound of this language and its speed. There are so many words to be aquainted to. Thank you for the videos.

[@keybertirado8165]

Δεν υπάρχουν λόγια για να σας ευχαριστήσω για τις προσπάθειές σας! Είμαι τόσο ευτυχής να παρακολουθήσετε κάθε βίντεο που κάνετε! Είναι οι καλύτεροι! Παρακαλώ μην σταματήσετε να κάνετε βίντεο... Εκπλήσσομαι με τον εξαιρετικό τρόπο που μας διδάσκετε την όμορφη ελληνική γλώσσα... Είμαι περήφανος για τον καθένα σας... Συγχαρητήρια για άλλη μια φορά EASY GREEK 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

[@EasyGreekVideos]

Να 'σαι καλά!

[@pierreabbat6157]

Some of the Armenian letters (the first seven, Թ, Փ, and probably others) are descended from Greek letters as they were handwritten around the year 400.

[@pmo8672]

Ωραία μουσική και μου αρέσει και η γραφή σου! Ευχαριστώ πολύ, Δημήτρης!

[@wenkeadam362]

Thank you! This is the very best writing tutorial I have found so far on youtube. I am on my fourth day of trying to learn some Greek. I have bought a calligraphy exercise book and am about to start practising.

[@EasyGreekVideos]

Thank you!

[@oogabooga4813]

Hi, Dimitris. Great video! Could you make a video on Greek Interjections?

[@EasyGreekVideos]

Καλά ε; Πωπώ! Ωραία ιδέα! ;)

[@susannalow9398]

Το να γράψω με το χέρι στα ελληνικά είναι σαν διαλογισμός για μένα. Μου αρέσει να αντιγράψω κείμενα από το ελληνικό μου βιβλίο. Επίσης σχεδόν ποτέ δεν θυμάμαι νέες λέξεις που δεν έχω διάβασει ακόμα.

[@EasyGreekVideos]

Είσαι μήπως οπτικός τύπος;

[@susannalow9398]

@@EasyGreekVideos, το φαίνεται.

[@RenRenNumberTen]

Literally the only reason I’m watching this is because I’m scared of getting cancelled by Greece (yes, the country of Greece itself) for writing their letters wrong in my math homework. Thanks so much Dimitris!

[@Dobt]

hi ren

[@nitsum8874]

ευχαριστω πολυ ! I've never actually tried to learn to write the letters, always copied the keybord ones aha, but now I know how to write them thanks to you !

[@imaniinspires]

SO helpful

[@lorenam127]

thanks a lot Dimitris for this very important video!!

[@EasyGreekVideos]

Glad it was helpful!

[@jujucealex]

First i read Sos in the title that’s definitely what I feel during learning greek xddd

[@EasyGreekVideos]

That's, uh, TOTALLY on purpose!

[@yunihorn1854]

Thank you very much. You have lots of useful videos already. This one would be better by pen on paper though. I will watch more videos before I comment again. And I will like all of them. Thanks again. Special thanks to Marilou.

[@leandrogasperi3669]

I remember learning Greek at university 20 years ago, but the old Greek. Alphabet stays the same I think. And I'D LIKE TO KNOW IF there is or not a cursive type for handwriting, as in the Latin or the Cyrillic alphabets (for both the capital letters and their corresponding lowercase letters). THANK YOU!! PD: I never stop from getting surprised/admired about the similarity between Greek phonetic and the Spanish one, which is my native language.

[@diazen7927]

Honestly, i have no idea why i´m learning the Greek alphabet if i´m learning Arabic, but i don´t hate it

[@stlev99]

One more question (months later!). I didn't see you give an alternative for ψ written like English lower case script "y". I have seen this elsewhere do you find it uncommon, outdated or just ugly? Thanks as always.

[@EasyGreekVideos]

It's not used. We only call this symbol (y) «ψι» in mathematics/algebra.

[@stlev99]

@@EasyGreekVideos thx

[@aldrickbanks3455]

English speaking Chinese living in Germany practicing Greek.

[@Evan490BC]

Excellent!

[@sebastolafgravberg6757]

Thanks a lot!

[@ErikSkar]

Can you make an interview video asking Greeks on their current opinion on the EU and a Grexit. I am unable to find current opinions on this. Ευχαριστώ

[@nabbopersempre7004]

it would be great to have transcription of the lessons in order to import them in Lingq

[@EasyGreekVideos]

We have them on our Patreon!

[@danielshalev50]

Thank you so so much for this video Dimitris !! I find your video really helpful and the best in youtube 💪 . I must say I love you as a teacher , you're always very kind and in youtube I learn Greek only from Easy Greek ! ❤️

[@EasyGreekVideos]

Wow!! Thank you so much for your nice comment! Marilena

[@budgetmoss9270]

Πολύ ενδιαφέρον βίντεο! Ι was surprised to see alpha just like the English a, I do it like a gamma on it's side, (so it looks like a fish swimming to the left) as that's how we were taught in biology lessons at school, also I do beta like a mini capital like the printed version, Is that a normal variant or a bit odd in Greece?

[@EasyGreekVideos]

Some people write the alpha the way you describe, yes. There is a variation of the beta, it looks like the printed version indeed: β - notice the little tail at the bottom though.

[@budgetmoss9270]

@@EasyGreekVideos ωραίο! ευχαριστώ πολύ, θα συνεχίσω με ψάρια και ουρές.

[@jhellden]

Hi, my background is in ancient Greek, so my capital omega would be the one you say you would never use. Do you know when the "modern" way was introduced?

[@eumixx]

It's exactly the same. Just two font types of the same letter. The one Dimitris uses is the simpler one, not a newer version introduced. Both ways are correct.

[@altralinguamusica]

Dimitris' omega is how I've seen it carved in stone, so I don't think it's that modern.

[@EasyGreekVideos]

I notice the Ω is much more common in fonts and typefaces even today. But I have no idea when people started writing it like this. Reading later Koine Greek texts I see they even used a kind of uppercase ω instead of Ω.

[@alboretus]

Do you usually join omicron and ypsilon ου in hand writing? Or does joining them make the omicron look like a sigma?

[@EasyGreekVideos]

You don't usually join them, or if you do, the ο and the υ touch enough that the ο doesn't look like a sigma.

[@Pathrissia]

Akrivws pou epsaxna :)

[@jakehowitzer2459]

S'euxaristó!

[@EasyGreekVideos]

Παρακαλούμε!

[@gabrielcandidoo_]

can you write uppercase Omega like a "W"?

[@Evan490BC]

No, not really. But uppercase Omega is very easy: a floating circle and a bar under it.

[@anjelmusic]

I noticed that in the text at the end, the double λ of αλλά you wrote just as vertical lines, like a roman 'l'. Is this a common thing?

[@alx_gr1]

Not really. I think it's his personal style of writing.

[@EasyGreekVideos]

Indeed, as @ak15 mentioned, it's my personal writing style. Not a common thing.

[@manorueda]

Thank you very much! 😃👍☺️ I've been looking for a nice video showing Greek calligraphy, but they always show only the "school" way, which may seem pretty, but I think it's so impractical... it seems too slow for me, you couldn't take notes writing that way. Also, your personal style looks fine to me. I'm Spanish and started to learn Greek a few months ago, and yet I'm able to read what you wrote in the video easily. I've been wondering if there is a cursive style in Greek similar to that used with the Latin alphabet, with ligatures and without lifting the pen, because it enables a faster and smoother writing, so I liked a lot the moments where you said you don't like to lift the pen to write a single letter, but still there is no connection between letters. Is there any style which uses such connections? Again, thanks a lot for this video, I really enjoyed it. Nice job! Bye!

[@xoneirox]

There is Greek cursive. I remember in our Greek language books in elementary school at the end of each lesson, there was a small text in cursive that we had to copy. I'm not sure what was the point of this exercise really, my handwriting is still shitty. You can see the Greek alphabet in cursive here: i.pinimg.com/originals/dd/fd/3f/ddfd3fb02cc6f7a8cd619f125605aec8.gif kzbin.info/www/bejne/ep2XeWV5atqqgac I recommend checking out more videos from that channel.

[@manorueda]

@nErDiE, thank you very much, I'll check those videos! 👍

[@irondasgr]

We don't use cursive that much in Greece. In fact, most of us write the letters seperately and I hardly ever see someone writting our letters linked all in one in each word. It's something out of our culture.

[@manorueda]

@@irondasgr I see... then I should get used to write each letter separately. I guess it's a matter of practice, but I'm going to miss ligatures for a while...

[@irondasgr]

@@manorueda It's not that you cannot do it. It''s just something we tend to avoid.

[@altralinguamusica]

LONG COMMENT WARNING (συγγνώμη!) I think it would have been even better if you could have shown the different ways some of the letters would be written, like β (with the tail) δ (with a flat horizontal line on top) θ (ϑ) κ (as a "u" and that's why learners should be careful when writing upsilon and not add a tail on the side! Though I liked your ϰ which learners often confuse for χ!) λ (with the left leg below the line) π (as ϖ) τ (like an iota but with a curl backwards at the top and then one forward at the bottom) χ (with one line curved, the other straight) and ψ (like an English cursive "y"). Then there's Ϗ which some people use for και (I think it's a Greek ampersand [&]) and ȣ for ου which I've seen on some signs - especially small street signs. Aaaaaaannnnd finally, some people seem to join στ together so it looks like οι with a line on top... and a few other letters are often just joined by one line. I think αι is often joined, no? I personally always join από slightly. Then again, it would have made the video A LOT longer, so I understand!

[@altralinguamusica]

But anyway, congratulations on this video. It was really really good!

[@AndersGehtsdochauch]

Well ... there would be nothing against a second part of this video 😜

[@iHerc]

ȣ nowadays is only used by the church; you will see it on images of Saints. No one will use it in everyday life. The joint letters is something personal; personally I join all of my diphthongs (except οι), but they don't teach that at school. It's just to save time when writing fast. κ for και is usually κ΄ but that is only for quick writing (e.g. note taking). There are many variations for each letter, and then there are some special characters or accents in some dialects but no one needs to learn/know those.

[@EasyGreekVideos]

The θ, or ϑ, I did show - it's how they teach it at school, and I thought it's weird! As for the others, they're not so common, and at any rate, they're beyond beginner level. But thank you for the comment, it's actually really informative for people who'd like to delve deeper into the intricacies of the written language.

[@jujucealex]

Yes that would be cool. When I went to the university I did not go to the classes because they are in Greek and I just asked my Greek friends for copies of what they had written down to translate on my own but I just couldn’t recognize some letters haha

[@timilayton7408]

When do you use the stress marks?

[@EasyGreekVideos]

You mean accents like this? α ά ε έ ο ό;

[@IsaYangKamu]

@@EasyGreekVideos oh yeah, I've been wondering this for a while and I would like also asking that when will you use this ω & η btw, I tried to search Google for this but I haven't understand about this. Would u mind explaining this to me? And that would be a huge help P.S. I would like also to know when will you use the Greek tone marks like ά έ ί ϊ ΐ ό ύ ϋ ΰ. How are you gonna use it anyway

[@Evan490BC]

@@IsaYangKamu (Standard) Greek is *very* easy to pronounce and write: you put a stress mark (in multi-syllable words) to the place of stress in the word (if it's a single-syllable word you don't need it and therefore you *shouldn't* use it). Now, the difficulty arises from the fact that choosing the correct vowel is context-dependent, as it is a consequence of the way Ancient Greek was pronounced. So you have to learn to spell each word individually, I'm afraid; there's no way around it.

[@stlev99]

When kids learn to write in school, is there a preference to writing the accent immediately over the letter, or adding it after fi ish ing writing the whole word? I guess it is not important but I was just wondering what the "official" way is

[@EasyGreekVideos]

I guess children place the accents after they've written the whole word.

[@stlev99]

@@EasyGreekVideos THanks. that is exactly what i was wondering.

[@paraskevirossidou8390]

In Cyprus we are taught to write it immediately over the letter. As you did at the end of the video when writing that sentence.

[@stlev99]

@@paraskevirossidou8390 thank you

[@ApollonianShy18]

For me is ok to write little lamda like the Russian l (both big & little same) Or like you wrote in the end allas 😳 litterally did not expect

[@Evan490BC]

No, it's not the same. He actually wrote *two* λs, but without the slant stroke: αλλά. It means "but" in Greek.

[@altralinguamusica]

This was awesome! What equipment / software did you use for this?

[@EasyGreekVideos]

Photoshop and a digitizer!

[@ryder3575]

How to write 'h' in greek?

[@EasyGreekVideos]

Χ, χ

[@TriStarIII]

μπορώ να γράφω το "θ" έτσι: ϑ ;

[@EasyGreekVideos]

Ναι, όπως δείχνουμε και στο βίντεο! 5:15

[@TT3TT3]

Nice! Merci!

[@ApollonianShy18]

9:16😊

[@freashleakage1365]

I had to fix my λ's too, I think it came from the habit of writing ㅅ in Korean.

[@lazarosssss]

Eγω που το βλέπω ενώ είμαι Έλληνας 👁️👄👁️

[@pardumanvats324]

How to write Ashish vats in greek

[@Evan490BC]

Ασίς Βατς.

[@lorenzana9668]

In English Alphabet, there’s a W. How do I write “Edward” in Greek

[@EasyGreekVideos]

Έντουαρντ. My father's name is Wayne: Γουέιν.

[@ТатьянаСтругова-д7ы]

Буквы не соединяются почти, а в русском языке письменные буквы соединяются

[@calming_nothing]

Это рукопись, но не курсив т.е. буквы не соединяются. Курсив нн распространён в Греции так же, как и, например, в России, но он всё же существует, его можно найти в интернете

[@greek_sahab]

You must be the only one not writing the little θ as a reversed β!

[@EasyGreekVideos]

Actually I don't know anyone who writes it like that!

[@luciferin22]

So is Dimitris single? :D

[@thomassiegler9898]

I don't think so. Seems to me he is together with Marilou.

[@anastasiaseme6813]

Είμαι αριστερό χείρας χαχαχα😎

[@aliefradilbaz]

"left handed people are smarter than the right handed people." Is that a fact?

[@EasyGreekVideos]

No, but all left-handed people I know are somehow quirky intelligent. Maybe them living in a right-handed world makes them develop some interesting traits.

[@Emadden79]

That is not how. I write my pi

[@EasyGreekVideos]

Compared to how I write it or how school teaches kids to write it?

[@Emadden79]

Well I write my pie with the little curve

[@Emadden79]

I mean pie without the E

[@Emadden79]

I mean pie without the E

[@Emadden79]

I will always do the number pi with the curve if you got excepted

[@tigeruppercut2000]

WTF you can actually write in mathematical symbols, equations and formulas? 🤣

[@jakedoheny3336]

Those "math symbols" originate from greek