All About #2 - All About the Spanish Alphabet
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🗓️ 5 November 2014
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm here with J.P. Hey, J.P. |
| 0:07.2 | Hey, Fernando. What's going on? |
| 0:08.3 | Not much. How are you? |
| 0:09.6 | Good. |
| 0:10.3 | Let's talk about the Spanish alphabet. |
| 0:12.5 | Okay. So the Spanish alphabet is based off the Roman alphabet. |
| 0:15.6 | And funnily enough, the English alphabet is also based off the Roman alphabet. |
| 0:19.5 | So, when you look at Spanish, it looks |
| 0:21.8 | like the same alphabet. I guess that's why you make the point that it's easy to learn Spanish. |
| 0:26.0 | It is. Sharing an alphabet between English and Spanish that does make it very easy, you know, |
| 0:30.6 | for me at least. Right. Obviously, there are few differences with some of the letters. |
| 0:34.8 | Okay, we'll talk about the differences in a second. First, I want to say that the Spanish alphabet consists of 27 letters, five vowels and 22 consonants. |
| 0:43.2 | And all of the letters in the Spanish alphabet also are used in the English alphabet, |
| 0:47.0 | with the exception of one very important letter, which is La Enie, right? Which is important because |
| 0:52.4 | you use it in the name of the language. |
| 0:53.8 | Espanol. So La Eña looks just like the N, because you use it in the name of the language. Español. |
| 0:54.8 | So La Enie looks just like the N, |
| 0:56.5 | except that's got that exotic squiggly thing on top. |
| 0:58.6 | Yes, a tilde. |
| 1:00.2 | The tilde, yes. |
| 1:01.2 | Okay, so that's the Ene. |
| 1:02.9 | Now, there's a couple double letters like La Che, La L, and La Ere. |
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