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Radio English
Practical English 2 (70433)
Alphabet
Numerals
Speaking Drills
Alphabet
• Why is there a special alphabet?
▫ Because some letters sound too similar
▫ Over the radio it’s more difficult to hear the slight
differences between some letters
• Examples:
B vs V
G vs Z
D vs T
M vs N
F vs S
The Alphabet
LETTER
PHONETIC
LETTER
PHONETIC
LETTER
PHONETIC
A
ALFA
J
JULIETT
S
SIERRA
B
BRAVO
K
KILO
T
TANGO
C
CHARLIE
L
LIMA
U
UNIFORM
D
DELTA
M
MIKE
V
VICTOR
E
ECHO
N
NOVEMBER
W
WHISKEY
F
FOXTROT
O
OSCAR
X
X-RAY
G
GOLF
P
PAPA
Y
YANKEE
H
HOTEL
Q
QUEBEC
Z
ZULU
I
INDIA
R
ROMEO
Let’s go through the alphabet a few times
Numerals (FIGURES)
Numeral
Spoken as
Numeral
Spoken as
0
ZEE-ROH
5
FIFE
1
WUN
6
SIX
2
TOO
7
SEV-UN
3
TREE
8
AIT
4
FOW-ER
9
NINE-ER
More Numerals (FIGURES)
Figure
44
Spoken as
FOW-ER FOW-ER
500
FIFE ZE-ROH ZE-ROH
7000
SEV-UN ZE-ROH ZE-ROH ZE-ROH
(or SEV-UN TOU-SAND)
Notice: no H in thousand  TOU-SAND
16,000
WUN SIX ZE-ROH ZE-ROH ZE-ROH
(or WUN-SIX TOUSAND)
14,899
WUN FOW-ER AIT NINE-ER NINE-ER
123.6
WUN-TOO-TREE DAY-SEE-MAL SIX
Telling Time
• Always send date time groups (DTGs) digit-bydigit, preceded by the proword TIME:
081400Z JUN 12
TIME - ZE-ROH AIT WON FOW- ER
ZE-ROH ZE-ROH ZOO-LOO JUNE
WUN TOO
• This DTG means June 08, 2012, at 2 pm, Zulu
time zone (Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) or
Universal Coordinated Time (UTC)).
Let’s go through the numerals (FIGURES) a few times
Next week: PROWORDS (Appendix B)