The Spanish Alphabet

The Spanish Alphabet

1. Presentation

Watch this presentation about the Spanish alphabet to get a feel for the Spanish pronunciation, with its main particularities and characteristics, especially its straightforward logical pattern of association between sounds and letters, which makes Spanish one of the easiest languages to learn in terms of pronunciation.

2. BBC Spanish alphabet

 
This page is archived and no longer updated but it contains a link to a downloadable mp3 file with the pronunciation of the Spanish alphabet.

BBC Languages - the Spanish Alphabet

3. Actividad de comprensión auditiva

Listening activity

¿Cómo se escribe?

How do you spell it? (Literally: How do you write it?)

´To spell´ is ´deletrear´ in Spanish but this verb is not used when we ask someone to spell something for us. We rather ask ´how do you write it?´.

The verb ´deletrear´ comes from ´letra´: letter.

Mira el vídeo, escucha y marca los apellidos mencionados y deletreados:

Watch the video, listen and tick the surnames that are mentioned and spelt

Soluciones en la siguiente presentación:

4. La marcha del alfabeto

Listen to the Spanish Alphabet Military march and sing along to learn the names of the Spanish letters.

This is the Latin American Spanish Alphabet (differences with European Spanish: c, ch, v, w)

5. Brands in Spain

Listen to how some of the most famous brands and names of companies are pronounced in Spanish.

You will notice that with few exceptions, most foreign names are read following the Spanish phonetic alphabet, where vowels are always pronounced the same way.

The result is a pronunciation that sometimes differs considerably from the original language (Colgate, Danone etc...)

You can also find interactive activities on this subject in videoele:

Pronunciación marcas - videoele A1