¨ — dialytika

In short

In our course the character comes 37th of 37: the order here is not alphabetical but from familiar to unfamiliar, before it comes ΄.

How it sounds

No sound of its own: the two dots split the pair into two separate vowels

The character in the “marks over the vowels” group

Stress in Greek is not a dictionary hint but an obligatory part of the spelling. A word longer than one syllable without its dash is written with a mistake. The two dots are rarer — needed where two vowels in a row must be read separately.

• ΄the stress marktonos▶

How to remember this character

A single letter is the hardest thing to remember: memory has nothing to hold on to — a character has no meaning. A three-step loop works: see the character, try to recall the sound, see the right answer.

And come back to it the next day, not in an hour: a check a day or two later beats a check the same day. Nobody holds the whole alphabet — 24 letters — at once.

• It is better to test yourself the next day than at the end of the same session. That is why a word comes back to you tomorrow.checked many times
  Adesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · g = 0.82 when tested a day or two later, against 0.56 on the same day.
• Studying a little every day gets more into your head than spending the same total time in one sitting.checked many times
  Donovan & Radosevich, 1999, Journal of Applied Psychology 84(5) · 63 studies compared, difference d = 0.46 — a sizeable figure for a learning effect.

Next

• The whole Greek alphabet24 letters in a single table
• Letter α — alfasound “a as in "father"”
• Letter β — vitasound “v as in "van"”
• Letter γ — gamasound “a throaty g, or y before e and i”
• Letter δ — dheltasound “th as in "this"”