ß = Like the ‘s’ in ‘sea’ What’s the best way to learn the German Alphabet In German, the letters of the Alphabet are pronounced like this, and can be spelt phonetically as such: The Umlaut is the pair of dots placed over certain vowels in standard German and its dialects, these vowels are ä, ö, ü. The letter is pronounced (like the "s" in "see"). The German ligature (additional character): The letter ß, is also known as the "sharp S", " eszett" or " scharfes S", and is the only German letter that is not part of the Latin/Roman alphabet. However, the German alphabet contains one additional character and umlauted forms of three vowels.
Much like the English alphabet, German has 26 standard letters. How many letters are in the German alphabet?