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Assignment 1
Send an e-mail to your
and include the
following:
Using a unicode font (e.g.
Palatino Linotype,
Gentium
or Arial Unicode MS),
type the Greek alphabet.
The recommended method is to use
Randy Hoyt's elegant little conversion tool. If you enter the
characters "a b g" in the box below, they will be converted to unicode
Greek characters α β γ. You can then highlight what you've typed,
copy it, and paste it into an email to send to your instructor.
Another method is to set up
your own keyboard so that you can type using unicode Greek
characters. You can do this by following the instructions at
John Schwandt's website.
For each of the following
vowels, give an English word that illustrates its pronunciation
(you can use the examples from the lesson or you can be
creative)...
alpha,
α
epsilon,
ε
short iota,
ι
omicron,
ο
upsilon,
υ
eta,
η
long iota,
ι
omega,
ω
Ask questions about whatever you don't
understand! It's very important that you learn to write the
alphabet, to pronounce the letters, and to phonetically pronounce
words. I want you to do well in this course, and to do well in
this course, you must learn the material in this first chapter
well. So please, ask questions!
Accent and be able to pronounce the
following verbs
After you have completed this section, click here
to check the accent type and placement.
For each of
the following verbs,
if it is correctly accented, so indicate. Otherwise,
rewrite the verb showing the correct accent. Be prepared
to pronounce each word after it is correctly accented.
Practice reading the following
passages aloud. Right now, all you are trying to do is
pronounce the words correctly. Compare your pronunciation
to the audio clip.