[yorwba]

The author is a Greek-speaking parent teaching his Greek-speaking children to read by visually pairing each letter with a Greek word that starts with that letter.

If you tried to teach English-speaking children with words that start with that letter in German, you'd probably confuse them quite a bit.

[unkeen]

"We live abroad in China, and Greek is one of three languages my kids are learning."

[madcaptenor]

right, but giving English-speaking kids the following would help them:

- a bear that looks like B

- an orange that looks like O

- a snake that looks like S

- a tree that looks like T

(and so on; that's just what I can think of off the top of my head)