Learn the Italian Alphabet with this quick Italian lesson. Speaking Italian is no easy task, so start slow with this Italian Alphabet for Beginners video. The Italian ABCs are essential when you will need to spell things, like your name, using Italian letters. In this video, you'll learn the 21 Italian letters. While the English alphabet has 26 letters, the Italian alphabet only has 21 letters. The 5 letters missing in Italian are J, K, W, X, and Y, which only appear in loanwords. Those are shown in red in this video. In this easy Italian video, our native English speaker will say each letter and then it will be repeated by our native Italian speaker. If you need to keep working on your Italian alphabet pronunciation, be sure to start the video over and keep watching until you know how to say every letter in Italian. Do you want to continue to learn Italian online? Subscribe to Language of Earth to never miss an Italian language lesson.