Greek alphabet trainer: letters and words online
The trainer shows a Greek letter or word, and you pick how it sounds. Every mistake comes with a short explanation.
Free, no sign-up. “Letters” has all 24 letters; “Words” has short words with the traps English speakers fall into most often.
The trainer needs JavaScript. Without it, you can see the letters with audio on the Greek alphabet page.
How it works
- Pick a mode: “Letters” or “Words”.
- Tap a reading. If it is wrong, the trainer explains why, and you can try another one straight away.
- After the right answer the next question comes up at once. In “Words” you also hear the word.
- The score counts the answers you got right first time.
Words are written the way the app’s English course writes them: syllables joined by hyphens, the stressed one in capitals. KEE-pros means you say KEE louder than pros.
The traps the trainer is built around
Greek is easier to read than English: a letter almost always says the same sound. But many Greek letters look like English ones and say something else:
- Η and Υ look like H and Y, but both are vowels and say ee.
- Ρ looks like P, but it says r. ν looks like v, but it says n.
- Β looks like B, but it says v: the b sound is written μπ.
- Χ looks like X, but it says kh, as in Scottish “loch”. The ks sound is ξ.
- ω looks like w, but it is just o.
- δ and θ are the two English “th” sounds: δ as in “this”, θ as in “think”.
- Letter pairs: ου is oo, αι is eh, ει and οι are ee. τζ in τζατζίκι is dz, not the ts English speakers say.
The whole alphabet with audio is on the Greek alphabet with pronunciation page, together with the rules for letter pairs.