Spanish Alphabet and Pronunciation Lesson

Alright, hey there YouTube. So I think I'm going to call this channel Veganomics 2 or Veganomics Spanish Teaching or something like that. But what I want to do today is sort of go over the Spanish alphabet and how to pronounce each letter. So I'm going to show you that on paper. So you can take this down if you'd like to. So the Spanish alphabet is called A-B-C-D-A-R-I-O, A-B-C-D-A-R-I-O. And so the first letter, well let's do, we can do the vowels first. So vowels are called Bocales. So I'll write that, B-O-C-A-L-E-S. You'll notice in Spanish that the V sounds like a B. Bocales. So these are, let's see, we have A-E-I-O-U, okay? So the rest of the letters are called consonants or consonantes. But I will just go through the whole alphabet now. So A is pronounced A. So I'm going to write it down how it would kind of be pronounced in English to kind of help. So A is A. B is B. C is C. D is D. E is A. A, maybe like that. Kind of like the end of day. A. F is EFE. EFE. G is GHE. And it's kind of got like a little throaty GHE. So I'm just going to put like a double H to kind of remind you of that, GHE. H is ACHE. A-CHE. I is E. So I will put a double E, like in feet. J is JOTA. It's also kind of throaty, JOTA. And you can kind of do it like that if you want. Okay, now we have K, which is KA. So I will just do this, KA. This is K-A-H, not K-A-N. So we have so far A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, E, J, K. The next one, let's start up top here. L is ELE. So I guess you could say ELE. But it's not as much E as like E, ELE. ELE. J, K, L, M is EME. So you could say EME. Next we have N or ENE. E-ME. O is just the same, it's O. One of the only ones that stays the same. Probably the only one, N-O. There is one in here that I should have mentioned. It's called ENYE. And now this, above the N, is called a TILDE. And this is like in the word PINA. Let's put that there. The word PINA, which is pineapple in Spanish. You wouldn't say PINA whenever you see this. You would say PINA. You know, in Italian they have the GN. In Spanish they have the N with a tilde on top of it, so EÑE. Okay, so we have M, N, EÑE, O. P is PE. One thing about the P in Spanish is it's not as pronounced as the P in English. For example, we would say PEANUT, or like, would you please pay me? I don't know. It's just, to me, it sounds a little bit less pronounced. It's more like, you would say PENELEPE. You wouldn't say PENELEPE. PENELOPE. So O-P-Q is GU. So I guess I'll just do, I guess I could do K-U or K-E-W, CU. R is ERE. So I guess I'll do E-RE. But this R right here, E-RE, is kind of like, you kind of have to open your mouth horizontally and say E-RE, E-RE. It's almost like a D. E-RE, E-RE. Now there is a double R. It's not a letter, but there is a double R phenomenon in Spanish. So this is the trill. You have to trill your R, so it sounds like RRRRR. An example of this would be, well, this would be E-RE, E-RE. So I guess I'll put two R's there. But an example of this would be the word, let's just use CARRO, which means car. So whenever you see a double R, you're going to trill your R. Also, at the beginning of a word, if you have just a single R, like the word RARA. So the first R will have the trill, even though it's not a double R. RARA. The same at the end of a word. So let's look at the verb TOCAR, which is to touch. Yeah, so TOCAR, at the end we trill this R. It's not as pronounced as it would be at the beginning or if it's a double R in the middle. And I know this is kind of a lot, but this is sort of the beginning, what you need for the beginning. S in Spanish, and don't mind this, this is very kind of sloppy. But S is ESE. So I guess I'll do ESE. The next one would be T, which is TE. And it's not TE, it's TE. So it's a more TET, TET, TET, than a TET, TET, TET. Okay, so the next one is U, which in Spanish we say U. So this could kind of be like, I'll just put a double O, like the word BOOT. Like in the word BOOT. I'll kind of just write the word BOOT here and really stress the U. V is UBE, or BE, depending where you come from. So we had B, which was BE, and now we have UBE. So I'll just go ahead and do UBE. And these two actually sound the same when you're pronouncing them in words. So for example, the word, there's two different verbs. VOTAR. There's VOTAR with a V, and that means to vote, like in an election. And then there's BOTAR. Sound exactly the same, but in the context, you would know that this is the one with a B because this one means to throw something away. The one with the V means to vote. So again, BOTAR, BOTAR. They sound the same, but given the context of what you're talking about, you will know whether it's this one or this one. After V, we have W, which is WB, or W, depending where you come from. So let's see, DOBLE, DOBLE B. It's kind of a tricky one, DOBLE B. That's a Y. After that, we have X, which is X. Okay, so A-KEES. It's almost like you're saying keys, but it's not. A-KEES, A-KEES. Okay, I'll just put K-E-E-S, A-KEES. The next one is, I learned this as Y, so like a Greek I, Greek I, Y, but they're teaching it now in schools as J. So you can use either one, it doesn't matter. DOBLE B, X, Y, DOBLE B, X, Y. So you can, I'm just going to put, I guess this would be a J-A-Y, or E, I'm running out of room, GRI-E-GA. Okay, Y-E-GA. And then the last one is Z, which is SE-TA, SE-TA. Sorry, this is kind of crazy, but there you have it. Take notes on this, this is kind of like Spanish 1, maybe the first week of class they would teach you something like this. Thanks a lot for watching, if you liked it, like, subscribe to this channel, there will be a lot more videos to come. Peace.