Travel with Angela Lansbury: alphabet

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Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Remembering the International NATO Phone alphabet with pictures

at home and when travelling you often need to spell out your name or a place name. It is handy to remember and recognize the NATO alphabet.

First of all, if you look up phonetic alphabet, the phonetic alphabet is how the letters sound, such as AY for A, bee for B, but the the one you use for telling the spelling of your name or a place name is more often called the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Using Pictures

If you want to recall the NATO alphabet, I thought it might help me and you to pick a few pictures. It is easy to find pictures of golf, India,, Whisky and hotels, and Romeo and Juliet on a balcony. If you have a friend called Mike, add that. For Charlie, either a friend called charlie, or champagne after champagne Charlie (who was a real person).

Where to Find Pictures

You could search on Wikipedia. You might find you have a few items at home. A hotel brochure. A golf ball., or ball. You might take pictures on your travels. The hotel. The golf course sign. A whisky bottle. A map of India. A flag of the USA, Canada, Peru.

A - alpha

B - bravo

C - Charlie

Champagne Charlie from France.

Or Charlie Chaplin

D - Delta

E - Echo

F - foxtrot

G - Golf

H - hotel

I - India

J - Juliet

Juliet, from Verona in Italy.

K - Kilo

L - Lima

(Capital of Peru)

M - Mike

Michael Jackson with microphone

N - November

O - Oscar

P - Papa

Q - Quebec

In Canada.

Flag of Canada, maple leaf.

R - Romeo

Romeo and Juliet from Italy.

S - Sierra

T - Tango

U - Uniform

V - Victor

W - Whisky

From Scotland, spelled Whisky, from the USA spelled whiskey.

X - X-ray

Y - Yankee

Person from the USA. American flag.

Z - Zulu

From Southern Africa.

Saturday, April 13, 2024

THE ALPHABET EXPLAINED: The origin of every letter

Friday, March 22, 2024

How To Recognizei Alphabets On Signosts and Road Signs - Using alphabets

Indian alphabet.

If you see a sign on a signpost you can do a screen capture and image search to match it up.

Simpler still, check the national languages, and the nearest countries.

Indian Languages\

Urdu and Hindi are almost the same. But Hindu used byy Hindu people is written in their script. Uurdu used by a mainly Moslem population is written in the Arabic script. is

Hebrew

The Hebrew script is used for writing the Hebrew language, as used in versions of the Old Testament, and prayer books in Jewish Orthodox synagogues. Also for writing Yiddish (German with a sprinkling of Hebrew and Russian words), and Ladino (Spanish, with a spriling of other language words). Hebrew letters were also used by the preist Cyril to create the Cyrillic language so the bible could be read by Russians. Cyril used both Hebrew and Greek letters which is why learning or recognizing any of these alphabets helps with the others.

Russian and Cyrillic\

Cyrillic is also used for Bulgarian. Plus a few extra letters. I found languages got easier when I stopped thinking of letters as being a task and a hindrance, and started thinking of them as a help. The same goes for vowels and diacritics, dots, and dashes which show which vowels are pronounced differently.

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Sunday, March 3, 2024

How I learn Korean on Duolingo

I thought I would never learn to read or hear or speak Korean. I am still struggling with pronunciation. I am listening to the sound on Duolingo and copying it by repeating it aloud every time.

SEOUL

Seoul (/soʊl/; Korean: 서울; IPA: [sʌul] ^ⓘ; lit. 'Capital'), officially Seoul Special City, serves as the capital of South Korea,

The word for Seoul, the capital, starts with a curve like an upside down v, or the Chinese word for person. The word consists of several shapes. But when I am matching pairs, only one of the sets or words has the curve at the start and several shapes.

However, to my surprise the recognition of both individual letter shapes and sounds, and multiple syllable words with several shapes is going well. I am doing it by trying to imagine a picture to match the shapes.

For example the G sound looks like a gun, a vertical and horizontal.

The word for milk has a double o, which reminds me of two breasts.

The word for cucumber has n o on the left and a line like a vertical straight l on the right. So I imagine ti cross section of the cuumber and the length of the cucumber.

The word for reoul starts with what look like an s/ R and s are adjacent letters of the alphabet so I remember the successive letter of the alphabet, r is s.

Yes and oh are the same symbol. It looks like the letter o attached to the right hand half the letter H. It is pronounced oh! Think of oh, yes!

Useful websites

https://www.duolingo.com/alphabets/ko/hangeul

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language

https://www.duolingo.com/characters

https://translate.google.com

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Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Arabic alphabet songs from the quick to the easy, and the whole alphabet written out

I thought of asking the Facebook's polyglot pages members for recommendations for alphabet songs. Then I thought of just googling it myself. Up came lots of answer. Thry two or three. Then when you like one, pin it.

The first one I tried went fast through the.

I found the constant injunctions to follow Allah were irritating. If you are a devout Muslim, and teaching your own childen, you might be delighted. If you are an adult, it is a distraction to keep going off away from task in hand.

I then went back into wikipedia and found a helpful chart. If you know either Hebrew or Greek, the Arabic suddenly starts to make sense. A, b, t, g, h, ... Now I can go back to Duolingo and make much fast progress. Especially if I print off a chart of the Arabic alphabet.

My memory aids are, start with alif, just a straight line, like the number one. Next is ba, like an empty bowl or basin, with a teeny foot supporting it on the table. Then thirdly, ta, equivalent of gammal, ta, a tea cup with tea inside, or thanks for the tea, two eyes. Fourthly, da, do I want some more yes I do, three eyes. Fifth is gim, give me some more, table and hand. Ha, table and hand but nothing. Ha with a dot on top is stranger. Dal is like a door opening.

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