The Esperanto Alphabet

These Esperanto alphabet is very similar to the English one, but it has a few differences. Each letter makes only one sound (no combinations of letters or letters that make different sounds in different situations), which means that if you know how to write Esperanto, you can speak it, and if you hear a word, you immediately know how it is spelled. So, here is the alphabet:

Letter	Sound
a	a like apple
b	b like button
c	ts like meets
ĉ	ch like chocolate
d	d like donkey
e	e like elephant
f	f like fire
g	g like grade
ĝ	g like giraffe
h	h like heat
ĥ	ch like Bach (this is now used in very few words)
i	ee like decree
j	y like yell (be careful - it's not pronounced like an English j!
ĵ	s like pleasure
k	k like koala
l	l like lemons
m	m like mice
n	n like night
o	o like boat
p	p like pin
r	rolling r (like in Spanish or other languages - does not exist in English)
s	s like sun
ŝ	sh like shoe
t	t like tiger
u	oo like moose
ŭ	w like wind
v	v like vine
z	z like zebra

In addition to the alphabet, you need to know the rule about the stress of a word: the second-to-last syllable of a word is where the stress falls. Now, you can prononuce any Esperanto word!