The Italian Alphabet – Learn to Pronounce Italian Letters Correctly

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The Italian Alphabet - Learn to Pronounce Italian Letters Correctly -

The Italian alphabet is pretty easy to get a handle on as it is more or less the exact same alphabet as English.

Italian has:
○ 5 vowels, exactly the same as English (with 7 vowel sounds in total)
○ 16 consonants for “native” Italian words
○ 5 consonants used for foreign words only

Hear Italian Alphabet. Try and repeat each letter as you hear it. Remember, these are the names of the letters and not how the letter is necessarily pronounced in a word.

The Italian consonants and foreign consonants are indicated by their respective color, as are the vowels.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z