####QWERTY keyboard and finding Greek Characters
Good news for English speakers, that 14 of the 24 characters on the Greek keyboard/alphabet are quite familiar. And are located on the keys that are also similar to the US English keyboard. However, take a note of a couple of differences.
You will notice that the Greek letter "Ρ, ρ" is on the key for "R" on an English keyboard. And this is important to note. The sound that the Greek letter "Ρ , ρ" represents is the same as r in the English language.
i.e. ροζ ρύζι / ΡΟΖ ΡΥΖΙ : pink rice (or "rose rice")
Said similar in transliteration/greek written in latin characters as : roz rýzi .
This also introduces accents that are used in Modern Greek.
The accent over the vowel shows where the emphasis comes in the pronunciation. E.g. μαμά = maMA.
On a keyboard you can type the accent by pressing the ![Imgur]( key, before you press the vowel which needs the accent. The vowels are ** ά, έ, ή, ί, ό, ύ, ώ**. On this example keyboard, you will notice they are highlighted in yellow.
You will notice the ![Imgur]( on an English US keyboard on the right of the L key.
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So now, there are just the 10 other characters. I will create another post for this soon.
The English keyboard continues to make it easy to learn the Greek letters.
Π π : You will notice on the English key P is the Greek letter that represents the P sound, being Π π. Which is the well known maths symbol we call "pi".
Σ , σ which gives us the "s" sound, is on the English "s" key. This letter has one more trick, in that when it is used at the end of a word, the letter changes to look like ς. You will see this character is just above the English "s" key, on the English "w" key.
Δ δ is on the English "d" key. However in Modern Greek the sound this letter represents is unique, and is approximately between a d sound and th sound.
Φ φ which represents the "f" sound, is on the English f key.
Γ γ which give the harsh g sound, is on the English g key. s on the L key.
Ω ω which is the well know symbol for Omega watches, and represent an o sound.
Leaving the last one Ψ
Λ λ for the L sound, i ψ looking like the pitch fork of the water god Poseidon, and you hear in the word ψάρι {το} : fish (in greeklish "psári".) Ψ represents the "ps" sound .
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