Listening to the spanish alphabet.

Question

Is there somewhere on spanishdict.com where it goes over all the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they make. When I say spanish words I just don't say them how i should.

Answer 1

How about this video from Youtube...

It is a video from Professor Jason.

• thanks :) - spanishjen Feb 9, 2012
• You're welcome :) - NikkiRivera Feb 9, 2012

Answer 2

I don't know if Spanishdict has the answer to that but this is what I found off of yahoo answers:

a - ah

b - beh

c- seh

ch - che

d- deh

e- eh

f- efe

g- heh

h- ache (ah+che)

i - ee (as in see)

j- hota

k- kah

l- ele

ll - e-yeah

m- eme

n- ene

n (with tilde) - enye (as in kENYa)

o- oh

p - peh

q - coo

r- ere

rr- erre (double the r sound)

s- ese

t- te

u- oo (as in Uber)

v- veh

w- doble veh

x - equis

y - igriega

z- zeta

• Thanks Yeah I found this of spanishdict too, but i still was not sure about some of the sounds they make but thanks. - spanishjen Feb 9, 2012

Answer 3

While there's no harm in learning to say the alphabet in Spanish it's also not a very useful skill (unless you're about to enter kindergarten). As with English, the names of the letters are not the same as (although they are related to) the sounds of the letters in words. So, what you really want (or should want) are the sounds of the letters when used in words. For an article on the subject see Lazarus' post in the reference section (if you don't know what or where the reference section is, make a search).

Nikkipedia provided a link to a Youtube video that is pretty good. Professor Jason has a slight American (U.S.) accent but it doesn't really affect the value of the video. For a more technical/academic resource, Lazarus recommended http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/ several years ago and I immediately bookmarked it (as I do with most of his suggestions).

• Hi! With due respect to you, sometimes the names can be useful, like when you're trying to say your email address and it isn't a dictionary word. You'd have to spell it right? - mathslover Feb 9, 2012

Answer 4

Hi Jen, you should try out our Spanish alphabet and pronunciation guide in the new Spanish Grammar section. Let us know if you have any feedback using the tab on the right and good luck with your studies!