Koine Greek Alphabet

Teaching Greek as part of our homeschool schedule has been such a blessing to our family.  Before we began, we first had to choose which curricula was going to best fit our goals.

Most Greek curricula will work for your family if you have a desire to travel to Greece and be able to converse with the locals.  But, if your desire is to read the New Testament in its original language, your choices are drastically limited.

Our family is using products created by Harvey Bluedorn and family (Teaching the Trivium).  We began the journeywith the simple Little Bitty Baby Learns Greek

With this board book you would give a baby, our family learned the Greek alphabet and how to pronounce it correctly!

Once we had mastered the recognition and pronunciation of the alphabet we moved on to A Greek Hupogrammon: A Beginner’s Copybook for the Greek Alphabet with Pronunciations and A Greek Alphabetarion: A Primer for Teaching How to Read, Write & Pronounce Ancient & Biblical Greek

This program is extremely simple to follow and learn. Each morning Michael copies the pages for the day and we work at the table together.

We are now at the stage where we write out Bible verses in Greek and practice memorizing them. Haley had a chance to share John 14:6 with a friend the other night!

I recorded Haley reciting the Greek alphabet for you. She did not do it perfect as there is no “a” sound like in “cat”. The alpha is pronounced “awlpha” or like the “o” in “cot”. So Kappa is “kawpa”, Lambda is “Lawmbda”.

If you have any questions about adding Greek to your homeschool schedule feel free to ask!

Click the arrow to hear our 7yo, Haley.

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Oh, and what is Koine??

Koi·ne (koi-n, koin)n.