FONÉTICA 1: APRENDE INGLES

English Alphabet

1.- The English Alphabet consist of 26 letters.

2.- Each letter has an apperease ("capital letter") and a lowercase ("small letter") form.

3.- Five of the letters in the English Alphabet are vowels:

 A,E,I,O,U

4.- The remaning 21 letthers are consonants: 

B,C,D,F,G,H,J,K,L,M,N,P,Q,R,S,T,V,X,Z and usually W and Y.

5.- Two letters, "A" and "I" also constitute words.

6.- Until fairly recently (until 1835), the 27th letter of the alphabet (right afther "z") was the ampersand ("&").

7.- The English Alphabet is based  on the Latin Script, which is the basic set of letter common to the various alphabets originating from the classical Latin Alphabeth. 

8.- There are 44 sounds in English:

24 consonant sounds.

20 vowel sounds.

 9.-  In British English we say Zed.

10.- In American English we say Zee.

11.- The English word "Alphabet" comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha, beta.

12.- The letters don`t always represent the same sounds of english.