When I first thought about learning New Testament Greek, I would generally focus on the negatives.

This was going to take a long time.
This was going to be really difficult.
I’m not that great at English, I can’t learn another language.

The amazing thing is that after spending roughly a year and a half on Greek and looking back over that time, that bad news about learning Greek has been totally overcome by the really good news about learning Greek.

If you’re thinking about taking that step toward learning Greek, but you might benefit from a little encouragement…allow me to offer five points of really good news when it comes to learning New Testament Greek.

There are only 24 letters—two less to memorize than English!
You really only need to memorize the lowercase versions of the letters, because uppercase is used differently when reading the Greek New Testament.
You already know more letters than you realize: Σ (sigma), Δ (delta), Γ (gamma), Ω (omega), Ψ psi), etc.
There are places in the alphabet where it matches very closely with English.
A lot of the letters look like their counterparts in English (α, β, δ, ε, τ, κ, etc.).

The first step in learning the language is just to learn the alphabet. Once you’ve done that—which only takes about 30-minutes!—-you’ll be hooked and well on your way to really getting into the language!

I’d love you help you take that step. Shoot me an email, if you’re interested.