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I kinda want to hear someone pronounce it correctly.
Imagine you a young monk and you finally feel like you have a strong understanding of Latin writing. Your boss hands you a book of Greek philosophy and you get to this part....
For a Finn that's actually easy. You are used to an obscure writing system where the letters alone have no meaning, but you need to look at what letters are near what ones to know if you should pronounce an a or e or u or i.
In Greek pronounciation you just look at each letter and pronounce it. Forget the big picture of the word, just concentrate on three consequtive letters at a time.