Saturday, December 13, 2008

Pronunciation

As much as possible, I tried to match the sounds to their corresponding English equivalent. Here are a few that are not as obvious:

Kh - Greek X, scottish ch. The sound comes from the back of the mouth, the throat rather than the front as in English ch.

oh - Greek omega. This is a long and round O.

eh - Greek eta.

ei - like "eye"

eu - a dipthong. Try saying eh-oo quickly. This is not pronounced like "you".

dj - Egyptian dj, as djet. similar to English tch as in watch.

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