ORTHOGRAPHY: The Spanish Alphabet/ el abecedario
EL ALFABETO O EL ABECEDARIO
There are twenty-seven letters in the Spanish alphabet. the English alphabet has 26 letters. The additional letter is ñ, which comes after n in alphabetized lists in Spanish. As you notice, there is a squiggly line on the top of the n. It is important to make sure that you add that any time you write it or say it. It has a different sound as the letter n.
Below there is a picture with all the letters of Spanish alphabet. Hover over each letter and click to hear how to pronounce each letter.
Now that you have heard how the letters sound, here are how some of the letters have extra sounds and different sounds that you might be use to.
- K appears only in words borrowed from other languages
- W appears only in the words borrowed from other languages
- CH and LL, are digraphs, or two letters that together produce a sound. However, they do not have their own entries when placing words in alphabetical order, as in a glossary.
- R- RR
- R has a weak sound similar to the English.
- RR produces a strong trilled sound that doesn’t have an English equivalent. Often produced when imitating the sound of a motor.
- It only appears between vowels.
PRÁCTICA
Now that you have learned about the alphabet, let’s practice;
Ejercicio 1
Ejercicio 2
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Orthografía content on this page was remixed from Español por el mundo by Gemma Morawski and Ani Alcocer, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Adaptations include voice pronunciations provided by Gemma Morawski and openly-licensed images throughout the H5P flashcards attributed on each card via the H5P editing dashboard and forvo.com . Further adaptations include practice activities created by Gemma Morawski via H5p. Images are created by Gemma Morawski with canva.