M4 · Beginner Spanish

Alphabet & Sounds

27 Spanish letters, including Ñ. Choose a letter to distinguish its spoken name from the sounds it represents in real words. CH, LL and RR are digraphs, not additional letters.

Audio help

Voices are automatic: Orus reinforces masculine personal descriptions; Leda is used for feminine, neutral or ambiguous content. Explicit speaker metadata takes priority. Ordinary masculine nouns do not select a male voice. New recordings are prepared only on Play and saved for reuse. Both voices share the owner-approved monthly budget and 100 new recordings per browser profile per UTC day. Cached audio remains available when the budget is reached. If Google audio is unavailable, Spanish browser audio is labeled Browser Voice. If playback is blocked, use Tap to Play.

Leda is the default; Orus reinforces masculine personal descriptions unless explicit speaker metadata says otherwise. Exact voice-specific cached audio plays first. Eligible missing audio is prepared only on Play, within the shared budget; failures use Spanish browser speech labeled Browser Voice. Letter-name previews are approximate TTS, not verified isolated phonemes. Browser speech may be unavailable on some devices.

Letter name: a

Name IPA (Latin American reference): /a/

Approximate letter-name preview, in context:

Esta letra se llama a.

A spoken letter name is not the same as its sounds in words. This synthetic preview is not an authoritative pronunciation recording.

Sounds in real words

/a/

An open vowel. Keep its quality clear, including in unstressed syllables.

  • agua

    water

    水

  • amigo

    male friend

    男性朋友

Reference: RAE/ASALE DPD

Quick alphabet-order self-check

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