Learn the Phonetic Alphabet

Alpha, bravo, Charlie: each letter of the alphabet has a target word to increase understandability in spelling. Learn the target words in the NATO phonetic alphabet to make spelling out names, address, confirmation numbers, and more much easier!
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Cải thiện nói tiếng Anh Mỹ / 改善美式英語的發音 / 미국 영어 발음 향상 / アメリカ英語の話し言葉のアクセントを向上させる / Улучшение произношения американского английского языка / Meningkatkan berbicara bahasa Inggris Amerika / Melhore sua pronúncia do inglês americano / Mejora tu pronunciación en Inglés Americano / बात अमेरिकी अंग्रेजी में सुधार تحسين لهجتك الأمريكية الإنجليزية / שפר את המבטא האמריקאי שלך / Améliorez votre prononciation en anglais américain / Migliora la tua pronuncia in inglese americano
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[@princess_sa_see]

When I worked in customer service on the phone, one lady, while spelling her name, said "H" as in hell. lol

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India Alpha Mike India November Echo Victor India Tango Alpha Bravo Lima Echo

[@maytte1305]

I used to work in a call center and believe me this is so useful, getting the letter right over the phone is hard.

[@rahatnaqvi5422]

Same here

[@InteractiveEng]

Great video! You have an amazing channel with such incredible pronunciation lessons. It's inspired and influenced our own lessons. THANKS RACHEL! 😃

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome!

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No one teaches us those phrases ever. I’m so glad to see them. I love you!!

[@rachelsenglish]

Thank you!

[@flbyrne99]

Here in the U.K. I had long daily commutes on our Motorways. I practiced the Phonetic alphabet (when safe to do so of course) by reading and memorising the first three letters of any car license plate in front of me or overtaking me. I’d then say out the Phonetic names and move onto the next. If I couldn’t remember the name I’d look it up when i got to work. All this was over ten years ago but I can honestly say I know the Phonetic alphabet backwards now!

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Golf Romeo alpha Charlie India alpha Sierra .

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I see what you did there!

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Gracias

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Romeo Alpha Charlie Hotel Echo Lima

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How can I use nato

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gracias:thanks

[@angeloriccellpiovischini3597]

Grazie mille, Rachel! Your channel is incredibly useful!

[@ibrahimkhater4129]

Thanks for all your videos, Rachel

[@TheDhjkhsd]

Rachel, thank you for this video! We do use it in Brazil and the words are the same with slight difference of pronunciation. We also use a different way to pronounce numbers by the telephone. And I'm curious to know if there's a similar one in English. For exemplo, to zero we say negative, and others numbers an ordinal form. This alphabet is very important in tourism because when it's necessary take note of flight reservation, and it's something that can't be misunderstood, the communication is made by the phonetic alphabet.

[@622PSS]

Being told it is commonly used by the US militany. Use it as kind of warm up exercise prior to a speech in English, especially when not having speaking English for quite some days.

[@andreymobile]

Perfect. If I knew that alphabet earlier, I would have had much less trouble when it comes to spelling things out.

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I am so happy to find out about your channel which is what I was looking for

[@cristinamunoz6312]

Excellent, just what I was looking for. Thank you

[@amineselmi]

Thank you so much Rachel. You're the best ever. My American accent is really good because of you! Thank you indeed and keep up the good job.

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome Amine!

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I am about to become a drone pilot, and we must understand the international phonetic alphabet to communicate with whoever we need to. It's rare to communicate apparently with TWR but it can happen. I'll have my theory exam very soon and we must do it all the way trough without flinch. Thanks for the clarity of this video, it's really top notch and hopefully it'll save my life!

[@rachelsenglish]

That's great! You're welcome:)

[@easyenglish5566]

so interesting and helpful! thanks Rachel!

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Very knowledge in seconds. Amazing!

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks Artur!

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I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING YOU FOR LONG AND FOUND YOU MOST USEFUL IN EVERY WORK OF MY LIFE.

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Thanks Nishtha!

[@FFXIfan93]

I love the little chuckle at 5:38 haha i giggled too.. saying papa seems kind of weird if youre not used to it.

[@daniele.solorzano9515]

Thank you so much Rachel, this video was so useful! I´ve just got a job in a call center and I had a terrible first day at work because I didn't know how to spell the customers' names (From United States and Canada). Two of them even insulted me because of this :(, but I'm pretty sure I will get so much better with this video. Greetings from Nicaragua!

[@rachelsenglish]

Congratulations Daniel! Keep it up! :)

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[@eli240709]

no puedo creer que econtré a alguien de mi pais aqui.... justo estoy viendo sus videos para mejorar y aplicar en un Call center, me animó mucho tu comentario.... saludos

[@xskywakerx]

thank you so much Rachel, you are the best

[@crisbarbosa9213]

It's a great video! Thanks for sharing Rachel ♥️

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome Cris!

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i love rachel inggris, it was so incredible...

[@205executive]

An enjoyable and useful contribution -Thanks

[@antaravaishnavi]

Every time feel so thankful whenever I see you, maam! ♥️💐💕

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks a lot Antra!

[@realemonful]

@@rachelsenglish oops... that was actually Alpha November Tango Alpha Romeo Alpha

[@trevorlongisland]

Good for all, especially for airport operations (Dispatch and ACC/AOC)

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thanks for explanation Rachel will keep up the good work:)

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thank you for yours vídeos Raquel have a Nice weekend

[@vloyolabustos]

Thank you Rachel, I always wanted to know this!

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome!

[@imransaeed1454]

excellent video, short , precise, productive, understandable,

[@simonegodoi9253]

I am learning!!!!!! Thank you Rachel, you are very important! I'd like more about prepositions (in, at, on) and "th".

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Simone Godoi In with months On with days At with hours

[@ericko.j8108]

In my job I'm gonna use it a lot, thanks, Rachel! Actually my first is easy for natives of English understand, but last name is Jardim rs

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Maravilha você está me ajudando muito

[@thaielucas]

A good lesson, as always. Thanks Rache!

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome Maira!

[@JessicaVeraBermudez]

Thank you so much, Rachel

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You're welcome!

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you explain in simple and easy way ... u r fantastic 😊

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very good. teacher

[@josephraj9235]

Great lesson and thank you..😀

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great, thank you Rachel 😊

[@lindasmith3978]

Thanks Rachel, you’re the first to teach me the International Phonetic Alphabet

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome!

[@vishvapratapss]

Thanks a million times for this video... So knowledgeable video for us.

[@jayasreedas16]

Thank you so much Rachel . I always wanted to know this . I have learned alot from your videos and still learning about American accent . Bye the way I'm from India.

[@rachelsenglish]

Hello there!

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Hello Thank you so much Teacher Rachel

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Great video so helpful indeed.Much enjoyed here in Zambia.. thanks Rachel for this awesome work.

[@rachelsenglish]

Glad it was helpful!

[@laylamaria1457]

In the UK they say R "for" Romeo instead of "as in"

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Thanks Rachel, I love it.

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome Isabel!

[@esbakhan9463]

Trust me usually I already memoriesed all the alphabets with the country names. Now time to update it’s much better and easy. Thx a lot 🙏

[@ogdomin]

Yankee, Alpha,Romeo, India. Thanks Rachel for helping to understand!

[@lizzy5508]

Thanks a lot for this video! It really helps when you are trying to spell something over the phone!

[@rachelsenglish]

You're so welcome Lizzy!

[@gulamnabi9073]

Hi Rachel,could you make a video on "would,could,,should" and and their all kinds of uses in different tenses and situations.

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Mohammed Nabi look for Adam ENGvid for grammar.. I believe she don't do grammar vedios..

[@obeyr8232]

yea Rachel go for this words

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Lola Toqi ..thanks

[@rachelsenglish]

I do have a couple of videos on these words. Here's one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3zMoYqDm9J8qJo

[@microfarmers]

10-4 great video! Beautiful teacher!

[@TorieLJones]

This is an excellent video! Very well narrated and makes it easy to learn as I head off to basic training! Thank you very much!

[@pauloandrade5340]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and help us learning English, Rachel.

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome Paulo!

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Thanks Rachel for your video. l will follow all your lessons, but now I do the final exams. Thank you very much. I am really excited about it.

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thanks Rachel, I love your channel!!!

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks Diogo!

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Thanks, very useful.

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome Lemardo!

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Thanks a lot !!I will

[@svetazsg]

Thank you. In my country people use this sistem too.

[@MrJRSV]

Amazing video!!!

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Thank you. We have embedded your video into our training for our Support Agents. Excellent video.

[@rachelsenglish]

Glad it was helpful!

[@dhanadhana1976]

thanks you for all lessons it has to be very helpful and very useful thanks you mrs. Rachel. .

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome~!

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Thank you. Your English clasess are awesome. Greetings from Colombia. ;)

[@rachelsenglish]

Hello there and thanks for watching! :)

[@ramzy-6566]

thank you for amazing video.

[@raineyforest339]

I am living in USA and the first I heard a customer support use "x as in word" in the phone, they didn't use the words in the video but words more common in the life.

[@vocalista23]

just what I need! thank you for this!

[@rachelsenglish]

You're so welcome!

[@arturoli]

Great video...!!! The ICAO / HAM Radio / NATO alphabet letter by letter, pronounced and with its IPA

[@mrscorpio007ify]

Thank you Rachel. Yesterday while on a cellphone with my wife she was saying the word nurse to me but I kept hearing the word nest no matter how many times she would yell it 😅 😂🤣. I guess we had that Yani / Luarel moment. Lol

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Walahi what a good teacher you are masha Allah oneday I'll join ur course. Insha allah

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Thank you so much ,Thanh

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Thank-you for this information. It is time to mess with people.

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Very good! This is very useful. thanks!

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome!

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I use this everyday in my life

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This is soooo helpful. I’m starting to work next week at a cc and I’m going to use it a lot. Thank you!

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Thank you so much

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t hanks for your help

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Good work!

[@jerryzh503]

many thanks

[@RudiKiefer]

Well done. I use this alphabet in my English language courses.

[@rachelsenglish]

That's great, thanks!

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thanks for the video Rachel

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome!

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thank you

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Rachel You are so beatiful!!!! I love you so muchhh !!!!!! Yo have taught me a lott!!

[@marianorafaeldeharorodrigu9717]

Great, it's a good information to spell my name or other things

[@stephenjoseph2104]

Thank you

[@claragonzales4708]

Hi there! Thanks for the video. BTW, in my country we do the samething when someone does not understand a name.

[@ClaudemirMartins]

This is very useful, I just share the link with my wife because she is practicing that. Thank you, Rachel.

[@rachelsenglish]

My pleasure Claudemir!

[@EliseyRodriguez]

Very useful alphabet, I learned it when I was flying in multiplayer of Microsoft Flight Simulator and talking to players, who was ATCs :)

[@deepaksharma880]

Great information respected mam

[@AndersonSilva-tg1dt]

Rachel, could you make a video talking about the words ending in "ile", e.g.: fragile, mobile etc? They aren't hard to pronounce but they have different pronunciation, is there a rule for this? Thanks for everything and all your teaching.

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks for your video suggestion!

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great video rachel congratulation

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Aquí repasando nuevamente, este canal son de los mas útil. Agradecida siempre.

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks for watching Selena!

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Good thanks

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Oh girl you are the best.

[@paanikki]

The radio (phonetic) alphabet is often mistakenly called NATO alphabet. Even though it was not created by Nato, or by the armed forces of any Nato member country. NATO has actually not even made an official decision to use this set of phonetic alphabet. The alphabet was created jointly by the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation), IMO (international Maritime Organisation) and ITU (International Telecommunications Union) Military forces have had their phonetic alphabets, but they were different from county to country. Actually, even different services of the US armed forced had their own, slightly different set of alphabet.

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks for the info!

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Indeed!

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Thanks for this wonderful video

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Glad you liked it @mayank0806!

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Thank you so much, we love you.

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You're so welcome!

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The marvelous video I learned new in this video thanks

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks again for watching!

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Help a lot thank you

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Thanks a lot for your great help !

[@rachelsenglish]

My pleasure!

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Thank you for this video.

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome @jimcachapero1249!