Spanish I: Lesson The Alphabets in Español By Mingxue Zheng and Lala Doumbia

ABCs - Alfabeto Lesson

Learning Spanish alphabets is very important because the pronunciation of the confusing looking Spanish words is associated with these letters. So, this lesson will make you know the pronunciation of the words. Then, develop more complex phrases or sentences.

A - a                sounds like“a” as in art
B- be alta       sounds like (be-all-da)
C- ce              sounds like “sa” as in sat
Ch- che          sound like”ch” as in chips
D - de             sounds like “da” as in dad                     
E - e                sounds like “a” as in at
F - efe             sounds like (a-fe)
G - ge             sounds like “ha” as in hair
H- hache        sounds like (a-che)
I - i                   sounds like (e)
J- jota              sounds like (hall-da)
K - ka             sounds like (ka)
L- ele             sounds like (a-le)
LL -elle          sound like (a-yah)
M -  eme        sounds like (am-mai)
N  - ene          sounds like (an-ne)
Ñ - eñe          sounds like (an-ne) with a strong nose sound
O - o              sounds like (woo)
P - pe            sounds like “be” as in bed
Q - cu           sounds like “coo” as in cool
R - ere          sounds like (a-rea)
RR - erre      sounds like (a-rea) roll your tongue on “rr”
S - ese               sounds like (a-sia)
T- te              sounds like tei
V - ve chica  sounds like (ve) (chee-ka)
W - doble ve sounds like (doe-b-le) (ve)
X - equis        sounds like (a-keys)
Y - ye   sounds like (ya)

or,
I griega sounds like (i) (gar-ri-ga) 
Z - zeta  sounds like (sat-da)

Trick for memorizing Spanish Alphabets

You probably had noticed that some of the Spanish Alphabets starts off with “e” and then the letter itself (two or one times) and ends with an “e”.
The pattern started after the letter E
These are the alphabets:
E-e
F-efe
L-ele
LL-elle
M-eme
N-ene
Ñ-eñe
R-ere
RR-erre
S-ese
Ve Chica and doble ve is very easy to memorize if you know the trick. Since, Ve sounds like the English alphabet of saying “V”. You would know that V is Ve chica (it start with a V too) and then doble ve can be view as double “V” which symbolized “W”!

Comments (5)

Lisa Kang (Student 2015)
Lisa Kang

I like how you have the trick for remembering the alphabet but i think that there are too much words so when i look at it, it's just really hard for me to concentrate.