It is now very widely used by all types of "professional communicators" including air traffic control, the police and other emergency services, shipping, etc and in all types of business. Think about the mistakes you made in the previous practice and see if you can improve. 00:00 00:00 Answers Click below to reveal the answers: Answers Listening Practice for Names 2 You now have a chance to listen again to 10 new names. They had to make sure that each chosen word sounded different to the others, and was easily pronounceable by speakers of all the European languages, not just in English. Listening Practice for Names 1 You will hear 10 names. A phonetic alphabet is an alphabet in which each letter is represented by a codeword that starts with that letter. It is called the "NATO" alphabet because it was standardised by the NATO member countries back in the 1950s to allow accurate exchange of radio messages between air, naval and army forces of all the NATO member nations. For example, in English, we refer to different letters of the alphabet by giving them the following names: A EH B BEE C SEE D DEE E EEE F EF G JI Etc. Numbers are pronounced as normal, except often 9 is pronounced " Niner" so it doesn't get confused with 5. The standard "NATO" phonetic alphabet (actually the International Radio-Telephony Spelling Alphabet) is:Īlfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu. The names of letters in the English alphabet P (p), pee, /pi/ Q (q), cue, /kju/ R (r), ar, // S (s), ess, /s/ T (t), tee, /ti/. The "NATO" / ICAO / ITU Phonetic Alphabet / Army Alphabet / Police Alphabet Using the phonetic alphabet to spell out names, locations and so on makes accurately understanding messages a lot easier, because many letters can be easily confused when heard over a crackly radio link (B, C, D, P, T and M, N and F, S, etc). ![]() When you are spelling out a name, location, code, registration number, postcode etc, over a noisy or faint radio or phone link, it is easy for letters and numbers to be misheard. ![]() Standard Phonetic Alphabets Used For Radio & Telephone Using Phonetic Alphabets Helps Convey Information Accurately Over Walkie-Talkie Radio
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