How To Pronounce Spanish Alphabet

Posted on 08. Dec, 2008 by admin in Featured, Spanish Articles & Guides

When you learn the Spanish alphabet, you’ll notice something very relieving: it’s almost exactly the same as the English dictionary! The truth is, the Spanish alphabet is not the only part of the language that is similar to English. The language, when properly approached, can be learned conversationally in under two months because it is so similar to English!

Many of the words in the Spanish alphabet function the same way as English. In fact, Spanish as a language is about as straight-forward as they come. There are almost never words that are not pronounced the way you’d expect them to be pronounced (once you know how the language works), and a good part of this comes from knowing the alphabet.

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In order to learn the Spanish alphabet, you only have to add three more letters to the English alphabet. So if you teach yourself how to say ch(che), ll (elle) and n (ene), you will know the entire Spanish alphabet, since you already know the English one. Give it a try: a,b,c,ch,d,e,f,g,h,I,j,k,l,ll,m,n,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v,w,x,y,z.

Here is a bit of trivia about the Spanish language. There is no word in Spanish that contains the letters “w” or “k”. So the only time you will see these letters in a Spanish word, that means that the word has been borrowed from another language. Some people add another letter, “rr”, which simply indicates a very strong roll to the r sound, but others do not feel that this is a separate letter.

if you are going to look up a word in a Spanish dictionary, you will have to know a little something about how dictionaries have changed. Older dictionaries frequently list words starting with “ch” after the words starting with “c”, regardless of the rest of the letters. Newer dictionaries will put everything in alphabetical order.
In the case of “n” versus “

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14. May, 2009

Great Article

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