Greek alphabet the CORRECT pronunciation

I have seen many videos on youtube about the Greek Alphabet and everyone's question was
What is the right pronunciation of the letters? First of all I'd like to tell you, that pronunciation doesn't really matters.
I mean it's not so important if you say "beta" or "βήτα"
Or if you say "Gama" or "γαμα" because when you put the letters in order to make a word, they will sound just fine. What they did, was that they replaced the ancient Greek letters with English characters. For example the letter "Y" ύψιλον was written "ὒ ψιλόν". So they replaced the first "υ" with "u" because it was looking pretty much the same and they haven't thought of the pronunciation which is a little bit different.
In this video you see the CORRECT pronunciation of the letters.

Wherever you hear the letter G, replace it with W
its closer to Greek pronunciation
For example if you take the word «Γαμάω» which means "I f**k" you would probably pronounce it like "ga-ma-o". But if you replace "G" with "W" it sounds like "wa-ma-o" which is closer to the Greek pronunciation.
By the way, the word "γαμάω" its not actually a bad word. It comes from the ancient Greek word «γαμέω» which means "I get married", but in modern Greek it is used as a swear.

[racheltimler]

"It's not a cow, it's a letter" This is my kind of humor

[Exception]

Alpha 0:56
Beta 1:03 1:11
Gamma 1:15 1:22
Delta 1:27 1:36
Epsilon 1:40
Zeta 1:47
Eta 1:51
Theta 1:57
Iota 2:02 2:12
Kappa 2:16
Lambda 2:21 2:29
Mu 2:34 2:39
Nu 2:43
Xi 2:49
Omicron 2:54
Pi 3:00
Rho 3:05
Sigma 3:10 3:17
Tau 3:21 3:27
Upsilon 3:30 3:37
Phi 3:42
Chi 3:47
Psi 3:52
Omega 3:57 4:06

[rarulis]

As a mathematician I was tired of butchering the pronunciation so thank you. Some sounds are actually quite close to french like the a in alpha.

[jackwright]

I used to wonder why Greek had two letters for 'o' until I looked at their names: o-micron means 'small o' and o-mega means 'big o'! And the sounds are indeed different.

[markhippyshire]

Was not expecting "I fuck." to just come out of nowhere...

[HiroMahtava]

It's time to mess with the Math teacher =3

[emilystrettonmoore]

I laughed so much at "it's not a cow, it's a letter" :') this video is awesome, thank you :)

[AndrewFallows]

It's not a cow, it's a letter.

[tampazeke]

I grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, home of Ole Miss, a very "Greek" university. When I was about five years old I learned the Greek alphabet and impressed my parents by being able to read the names of all the fraternities and sororities on campus. Of course I learned the alphabet with the incorrect English pronunciations. I've lived in the Tampa Bay area now for 30 years and my best friends are Greek. I've had to unlearn everything I thought I knew and start from scratch. This video was a reminder of my journey. Very well done. Σας ευχαριστώ

[BlueHidra]

This video is really helpful, I've just started self teaching myself greek about a month ago and I've been sort of flailing. This video helped more than you think.

[michel_dutch]

Dutch speaker here, and totally shocked about how different the correct pronunciation is compared to what I've always thought was correct...

Great vid, thanks.

[kevinhamilton]

Many years ago (more decades than I care to admit) I learned Greek so I could read the New Testament, as it was originally written in Greek.
The US "college Greek" is soooo far off that as I teach my spouse Greek for a visit to Greece, learning the correct Greek pronunciation IS important as we prepare for the trip.
Thank you for this lesson.
(Lol, before I learned Greek, I thought I knew the alphabet!!)

Best
Joe

[gwens]

Gamma is pronounced as the voiced velar fricative, loads of languages use the letter(s) G / GH to represent this sound. Mine does too! (Belgian Dutch)

[Jr-ftii]

Being a Spanish speaker really brings advantages when learning how to pronounce in Greek. B, D, G are so equally pronounced in Spanish that I need to "unlearn" the sounds I adopted when I learned English 🤣

[SparklesFantastik]

you giggling at "pee" was really cute lmao

[tannershort]

Just some clarification for my benefit. It doesn't sound like he's pronouncing gamma as a "W' in English. But instead, if there are any Arabic speakers out there, it sounds almost exactly like a غ (Ghayn) in Arabic. Am I hearing this correctly? Thanks in advance.

[domingomarmolejo]

My tired joke: it's all Greek to me

[kaminechaitram]

I have no idea why I started learning Greek... but this has been by far the best... thank you.

[mariaa]

Why English speaking sources keep insisting that 'gamma' (γ) sounds like 'w'? However much I try I fail to see any similarity. I think it sounds more like a breezy g (i.e. something between g and h, similar to glottal g in Ukrainian).

[ijansk]

As a native Spanish speaker Greek pronunciation feels so familiar.