The EASIEST Way To Learn The NATO Phonetic Alphabet in 2025

Ever wanted to learn the NATO Phonetic Alphabet? This video will teach you how to understand each word using different methods.

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0:00 Titles
0:06 Introduction
0:33 The Basics
1:17 The NATO Phonetic Alphabet
3:01 Learning Methods
5:15 Outro

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[greedy_boi]

License plates are a fantastic way to learn as well. When you're out and about, take notice of the cars you pass by and try to match the letters to the words. Like learning a new language, repetition and everyday usage is a great way to memorize. I taught myself the whole phonetic alphabet through my embarrassing amount of Uber eats orders during Uni lol.

[smithyMcjoe]

My uncle was a squaddie. I learned all the phonetic, marching, shooting, basic soldiering by 13... I never even wanted to join the cadets, but he basically put me through his version of it instead.

[brandontylerburt]

November India Charlie Echo. Thank you; I've always had trouble with this for some reason, but using your method I was able to memorize about half of the alphabet before reaching the end of the video. Brilliant. Cheers!

[momcat]

The other method that works [well, did for me at any rate] is to sit down w pen and paper and write them over and over and over until they became ingrained. Now I can rattle off NATO code w/o a second thought. Oh, and it should be noted that, in addition to "M" and "N" being easily confused, the letter "S" often cannot be heard at all over the phone when spoken by itself.

[elasticxplastic]

I’m so bad at remembering. I always end up making up words haha. Will try these tricks! Thanks for making this video!

[CharlieB]

Thanks! I just learned that by repeating it over and over. I cannot believe it was this simple all along ❤

[rosablume]

I liked your graphics at the beginning very much, helps me tons to connect a letter to the word

[WanderingMum]

You said ZED as a maritimer now in Texas I loved to hear that!!!! Outstanding educational content!!!

[burntsider]

The NATO alphabet should be taught to every school kid.

[_varmor_]

I remembered all of it because of Voices of the Void
Good video!

[pphead]

Here’s a really easy way: read license plates. Do that throughout the day and you’ll master it in no time

[JunkBoy]

Great video! Definitely enjoying a bit of Spekteacher to start my April Fools day before all the bullshit starts landing.

[EcclesiastesLiker-pyts]

I had to learn this for working telephones at work, this would have helped then.

[alexroselle]

“Yankee… Hotel… Foxtrot … Yankee… Hotel… Foxtrot”
*guitar noise increases*

[kaderiley]

My work uses the phonetic alphabet for shipping weights. Out shipping guy scans things after they are packed and all you hear is “zulu, zulu, victor, uniform” and each word is connected to a weight. so like Zulu is 700g, victor 600g, etc. learned a good chunk of it from just hearing that robotic voice saying them all day😂

[elinoirsmythe]

I always thought LIMA was LEMUR. Oops.

[ablebaker]

That's no fun. Try this instead:

A - Aisle
B - Bdelium
C - Czar
D - Djakarata
E - Euphoria
F - Five
G - Genre
H - Hour
I - Ian
J - Jose
K - Knight
L - LLama
M - Mnemonic
N - Nine
O - Oedipal
P - Phonetic
Q - Queue
R - Rwanda
S - Sea
T - Tsar
U - Urn
V - Vie
W - Wrong
X - Xanadu
Y - You
Z - Zero

[PongoXBongo]

I wonder if any wise guys have tried typing an entire school report in NATO phonetics to pad out the word count?

[rosettastone]

Once you gave the full alphabet, I was thinking "hmm, Lima is the only one I might have a problem remembering". Then you busted out the "LIMA-sine", it made me laugh, now I can safely say I will NEVER forget L is for Lima-sine! 😂

[tieradlerch.]

I would teach my future kids with these letters