SDLC 105 Learning Journal #4

[Daniel Matthew Kunath]

It would appear that there are a great many sounds in Greek that are not pronounced in English, and vice versa. For example, there is a difference between the standard sound for “z” and “ζ”, which I cannot describe nor even well discern. One buzzes slightly more, if that can be understood about two letters whose primary sound is a buzz. To my ear, they sound identical, but evidently, the difference can distinguish a native speaker from  someone who speaks it fluently, but as a second language to English. The standard phonetic transcription alphabet does not even account for such small variations. None of the sounds are drastically different, but I will have to practice individual letters at length to familiarize myself with the tiny differences.