Memorizing the NATO Phonetic Alphabet (QUICKLY!)

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The Phonetic Alphabet is used in many different domains, but in short, it's a standard list of words to represent all the letters of the alphabet in order to remove any ambiguity about them.
Think of when you're on the phone with a customer rep and you're trying to tell them a series of letters. Most people go, "A is for Alexander, B is for Bouncy Castle, etc." and just make up whatever comes to mind. But did you know there's an official list of words?
Here is how to memorize the ACTUAL list (the one officially used by pilots, for example).
Also, this video is a bit of insight into how I memorize things on the fly. You'll see me learn the Phonetic Alphabet in real time. Enjoy!
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@giovannapennacchi2772 4 года назад

Me: "I know the alphabet" My brain: Are you sure? Are you suuuuure???

@AuntieNay 4 года назад

Worked. First time watching your videos. At 9:37 paused and tried it on my own and aced it. If a 60 year old can do this I'd say your system is a winner!!😊

@chenaimapiye9403 3 года назад

Wow, i needed to memorise this for my customer service job. I spent the whole day yesterday..but it only took me 10 minutes this morning. You are amazing

@matthours1783 2 года назад

Whiskey Oscar Whiskey, India November Echo Echo Delta Echo Delta Tango Oscar Mike Echo Mike Oscar Romeo India Sierra Echo Tango Hotel India Sierra Foxtrot Oscar Romeo Mike Yankee Charlie Uniform Sierra Tango Oscar Mike Echo Romeo Sierra Echo Romeo Victor India Charlie Echo Juliet Oscar Bravo. India Sierra Papa Echo November Tango Tango Hotel Echo Whiskey Hotel Oscar Lina Echo Delta Alpha Yankee Yankee Echo Sierra Tango Echo Romeo Delta Alpha Yankee Bravo Uniform Tango India Tango Oscar November Lima Yankee Tango Oscar Oscar Kilo Mike Echo 10 Mike India November Uniform Tango Echo Sierra Tango Hotel India Sierra Mike Oscar Romeo November India November Gold. Yankee Oscar Uniform Alpha Romeo Echo Alpha Mike Alpha Zulu India November Gold

@meosh930 5 лет назад

Hotel? Trivago

@shayannemat4631 3 года назад

Hotel? Del Luna

@RonioFOX 3 года назад

Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk nunca mais vou esquecer

@scept3r.studios 3 года назад

Tango Romeo India Víctor Alfa Golf Oscar

@zelowpin 3 года назад

Lol

@cautionjaketurbulence8891 3 года назад

I used this method in college to memorize latin words used in today's medical terminology. I used to think it was ridiculous until I took the exam and all the stupid things I imagined stuck with me.

@Geek37664 10 месяцев назад

Growing up as a military kid, my dad always used it to spell words to me. I learned it from an early age and I still know it at age 42.

@garretthaynes2182 5 лет назад

My time was similar, about 5 minutes. I came up with my own way of remembering it by creating a story associated with each of the words, e.g. for letters A - F, I created a story of an alpha male sitting in a theater shouting bravo to Charlie Sheen who is up on stage dressed as a delta soldier and the sound of the alpha male cheering bravo is echoing around the theater and then a fox trots across the stage past Charlie Sheen. Total I came up with 4 short stories to memorize it.

@xilo3012 4 года назад

Whats that? Story method? And you can recover parts or have to see all story again?

@scept3r.studios 3 года назад

Same, except I put everything in there

@ritvikreddy3959 3 года назад

My story was a bit simple,there are six friends Alpha,Bravo,Charlie,Delta,Ech(Echo) and Foxtrot playing golf in a hotel which is in India. While their wives Julliet,kilo,Lima are singing on a mic(Mike) in the month of November while their cooks Oscar,papa,Quebec,Romeo and Sierra are preparing tango ,also they have an uniform which has a symbols of V(Victor),whiskey,x-ray and their uniform's brand is Yankee and zulu

@wyattstevens8574 6 месяцев назад

Interesting to watch- I'm a ham radio operator as of ~6.5 years ago, which actually requires me to learn it for my voice-mode transmissions. In the words of our local club net monitors, "Please call now, *phonetically* [i.e. using this list] and slowly."

@zachariahcleveland2664 2 года назад

Took me 11 minutes and 26 seconds to memorize. Thanks!

@mlynnlm9068 5 лет назад

Ha! That's me at 1:05! I work for an airline so I wanted to learn the phonetic alphabet. This was great, thanks!

@mendoggy 4 года назад

didn't even realize it but ended up memorizing the alphabet too, just by watching you go through this

@cornerbodega22 5 лет назад

I really enjoyed this video. Feeling like I'm memorizing information with you is cool. Keep it up 👍👍

@NelsonDellis 5 лет назад

Great! I was going for that. I'll make more!

@whipbone 4 года назад

@@NelsonDellis this is awesome really helped , i felt this video idfk

@misterheath 4 года назад

This is something I've been meaning to learn for years, and I finally got it now after this short video.

@starzzz3774 3 года назад

Hotel echo leema leema oscar!

@souviendra 11 месяцев назад

I watched this a long time ago and it REALLY helped me retain the NATO alphabet in my head so thank you very much

@rihamhaniel-gendi4431 5 лет назад

I just followed THIS AND IT WORKED! XD

@robertgomez5378 5 лет назад

I kept up with your speed and memorized it by the time you did :)

@NelsonDellis 5 лет назад

Nice!

@steriopticon2687 4 года назад

In basic training the sergeant who was teaching this had a huge chart with a pointer, when he got to W he said, "Gentlemen, if you have never heard this word, you will not hear it first from my lips." He never said "Whiskey" during the whole class. It ALMOST made getting drafted worth it.

@screamingtenderness Год назад

Thank you I just learned this with you I got a job in booking flights and I'm in training I appreciate you

@dobrapamiec 5 лет назад

Nelson, I do love how you edit your videos. Great quality :)

@farleydbear 3 года назад

i normally just hard-memorize it by repitition. nato took me about 2 passthroughs

@wesaytech 5 лет назад

Wow!! You made memory seem simple. It seems so natural. It made you "human". I used to think the memory of a thing is only for gifted ones. But you just showed how easy it is!!! Nice one

@Taroturo Год назад

“It made you ‘Human’” what do you mean by that?

@James01281 5 лет назад

About 5 minutes, but I was already working on it as I was watching your video. Good stuff!

@Amccordford 3 года назад

I learned most of this from the tv show "DollHouse" where these are the characters' names. I had the rest filled in by the end of your video! Thank you so much!

@elizabethbert5854 2 года назад

Same!

@Porkerporkpark. 2 года назад

This is how I remembered it: There is a dude named Alpha he says Bravo a lot, mr. Charlie lives in a Delta. If you Echo, you can hear the Foxtrot. There is a Golf resort in a Hotel that is in India. Juliet is from India but she doesn't use Kilo. You know who likes Lima bean? Mike likes them especially in November. Oscar has a Papa in Quebec. Romeo lives in Sierra, he loves to do the Tango with his girlfriend, especially if his girlfriend is in her lifeguard Uniform. There is this dude named Victor, he sure loves his Whisky and X-ray just because he is a Yankee and a Zulu. If you take all the words that are capitalized ( Except the beginning of sentences) that would be your alphabet. I already organized them for you.

@Lola-xd1dc 5 лет назад

For some reason I ended up on a loop Of your memory vids Xd so far I’m enjoying each and every one. + 1 sub 🙌🏼

@sambhavjain1527 4 года назад

I learned right side by side with you......That was amazing!!!

@mshah7830 8 месяцев назад

It’s helped me remember the ones I keep forgetting - mainly M and P.

@seccat 4 года назад

Thanks for the trick. Got perfect it after 4 tries. Each try, it got easier and faster.

@hunterxsimple3821 2 года назад

That's actually a pretty good memorizing technique... thanks, I could usa this in my studies.

@juanindojorgijanad782 11 месяцев назад

I heard that, it's the 1956 military alphabet with ICAO and NATO style! A - Alpha B - Bravo C - Charlie D - Delta E - Echo F - Foxtrot G - Golf H - Hotel I - India J - Juliet K - Kilo L - Lima M - Mike N - November O - Oscar P - Papa Q - Quebec R - Romeo S - Sierra T - Tango U - Uniform V - Victor W - Whiskey X - X-ray Y - Yankee Z - Zulu

@evensondlovu4982 4 года назад

I did this before the video ended, it's super cool. I didn't know it was that easy. It helps that I already knew some of them though.

@Partlysomethin 3 года назад

15 mins including the 11 of the video. Loved the strategies!

@aaronfawcett9911 3 года назад

So counter intuitive that doubling the information you are memorising makes it easier... but it really does!

@falastinefreedom 2 года назад

Thank you very much! I have to learn this for work - definitely helped much. Thank you God Bless🤲🏽🌷

@nathanielcooper4288 5 лет назад

I learnt it from cadets and copying it out 20 times

@xilo3012 4 года назад

You wrote 20 times? And worked?

@youlorrie2836 4 года назад

It took me 5 minutes to memorize this 15 years ago.

@english_for_aviation_with_uli Месяц назад

🎉

@natalya_volochay 5 лет назад

Tango Hotel Alpha November Kilo Yankee Oscar Uniform Lol kilo = cocain)

@breannakaye3676 4 года назад

🤣

@chhavipratap4950 4 года назад

@@breannakaye3676 THANK YOU

@rihamhaniel-gendi4431 5 лет назад

WOW THIS IS ACTUALLY very good stuff! Chapeau!

@andriimereshchuk9298 4 года назад

Alpha, bravo, Charlie, delta, echo, foxtrot, golf, hotel, India, Juliet, kilo, Lima, mike, November, Oscar, papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, tango, uniform, victor, whiskey, x-ray, Yankee, Zulu. They are used for aviation btw and I want to be a pilot. I typed these without watching the video first. I remember them but I sometimes forget so I watched the video.

@Malibu7Seven 4 года назад

Subbed! Love your channel!

@maserin1 5 лет назад

About 10 minutes, and I borrowed a lot of yours but switched up some others (hotel, juliet, romeo, and tango... come to think of it, those have an interesting theme! 😂). I have literally wanted to know this for more effective phone conversations for my entire life, but I had no strategies before so I kinda sorta knew half of them, but not solid like this. Something tells me I’ll never forget now! For the name of your viewers, I keep thinking “Dilly dalliers” because of your last name and how ironic of a name that would be for your audience. It also sounds kinda hip-hop in a geeky way (like you 🤓)!

@nathanielcooper4288 5 лет назад

You are not supposed to switch the words. I learnt them through a military outlet (army cadet) and I changed them up a bit and I had my head blown off.

@chgearft1563 5 лет назад

Amelia Cooper then how did u read the comment??? If ur head is blown off ur either blind or ded???

@dano5417 4 года назад

Bad ass. You rock. Done. Got it for life!

@tonycruz2450 Месяц назад

Thank you makes it easy to learn great video

@foxpopuli6982 Год назад

This helped me, thank you!

@magnat6473 5 лет назад

great video as always bro

@mjliu2067 2 года назад

Wow great job bro, bravo 👏👏👏

@waffles8127 2 года назад

Thats what I needed :)

@FelipeRiboli 5 лет назад

Hi from Brazil, Nelson Dellis. After seeing a lot of videos of memorizing techniques here and other chanel, it seems that there are no more new tecnics to show but you are doing something really cool that it is showing how you apply, what you are thinking during the memorization process. Please I'd like to see you memorizing information from a newspaper story (with names, numbers...) using the techniques. Nice work, Nelson. Thank you so much.

@NelsonDellis 5 лет назад

Hey, thanks Felipe. Memorizing a newspaper is a great idea.

@xilo3012 4 года назад

I'm not good at it but i would write key word of the news and create a story.

@xemen8676 3 года назад

Yoww this helps me a lot, thanks!!!

@whipbone 4 года назад

this is awesome really helped , i felt this video idfk

@Dipovinnana 2 года назад

you did a video before on being a polyglot and knowing how to say hello and goodbye, and what's weird is that my 26th location for that image was also an african image of swahari. zulu and swahari were in the same spot. I love it when mnemonics line up like that. is your 26th location always symmetrical in that way?

@treasure11.11 2 года назад

This is brilliant! By the way, for Zulu, women with rings on their necks are Ndebele not Zulu.. but hey!! it still works.

@breannakaye3676 4 года назад

I'm honestly impressed

@bluejay2640 3 года назад

My trick is that almost all of them are two syllables (save Golf, Juliet, Mike, November, Romeo, and Uniform).

@jensenwright444 Год назад

You’re a genius thank you.

@suz9704 2 года назад

Love this! Do you have a downloadable document with your pictures?

@kareenap4478 5 лет назад

Loved the video 👍👍. But also, did anyone else notice the pregnancy books in the background? 🤣

@NelsonDellis 5 лет назад

haha thank you! And yes, good catch....we just had a baby 10 months ago!

@lapatatadelplato6520 2 года назад

The memory fandom, memorandum, that’s gonna drive some peeps round the bend

@Stephan5150 5 месяцев назад

Fun fact, in French, the letter U is silent in Quebec. Don't say Kwa-beck, instead, say K-beck.

@xilo3012 4 года назад

Hi. In tournaments you do that putting the image at memory palace?. I didn't know you were so good at it because i saw few of your videos. Then i saw you at a Ron White video in the USA championship. Are you the USA champion now? Greetings.

@julietepskamp6899 Год назад

Wow I love this video I wish I was still young, don't think I can grasp this at my age over 50 years, the video is really interesting I'll try my best

@askingwhy123 5 лет назад

Another winner, thanks for the video. Maybe Morse Code next? I brute-forced it, but using images seems tricky -- with few exceptions: M is dash-dash and N is dash-dot, i.e. narrower like an n is narrower than an m. Anyway, how to do abstract stuff like homogeneous symbols or tonal languages?

@aperture0 4 года назад

He already did Morse Code

@xilo3012 4 года назад

Didnt see the video. May be you can transform the signs into images or words.

@onyens5621 4 года назад

I all ready no the phonetic alphabet and it is really fun to say

@JukeBoxHero-sk7cq 3 года назад

Thank you

@jba2089 5 лет назад

Non pardonné ...mais trop addict à ce que vous faites si bien!

@austinbelt5192 3 года назад

I know them but I need to practice the alphabet

@shaikhmullah-ud-din1964 4 года назад

I did it with you. Took me less than 12 mins

@Smokebox_345 4 года назад

The way you remember things is actually helpful man thank you

@FPShkED 4 года назад

Yes!

@oleamazyrko3602 4 года назад

Nelson. You are officially brilliant! What an imagination. Quite inspiring. Alfa ( _male_ ), bravo 👏

@magicmike_notastripper 2 года назад

could have used this at trivia last night. Took me 20 minutes, i'm sure it'll come up again. Fun fact about the spelling of A & J "The code words "Alfa" and "Juliett" are spelled that way intentionally to avoid mispronunciations by learners of the alphabet."

@markmelon3529 4 года назад

What do you actually do with them

@daudkhan6198 4 года назад

Can you help me with Mind map system Nelson?

@Porkerporkpark. 2 года назад

Only a day, to memorize this for a 12 year old anyway.

@navalfa7291 11 месяцев назад

NATO:- A for Alpha, B for Bravo, C for Charlie, D for ... Russians:- Hold my L for Lancet.

@DanetteConley 5 лет назад

FUN!!!

@samsonrejoy6858 5 лет назад

Sir ..I want some tips on memorising g.ktype questions for competitive examz..plz do help

@NelsonDellis 5 лет назад

What are "g.ktype" questions? Can I find examples somewhere online?

@samsonrejoy6858 5 лет назад

@@NelsonDellis sir I mean general knowledge type questions...like quiZ and all.... The name to remember are very tough... that's why

@xilo3012 4 года назад

I guess you can create images to study answers like nelson does and then. Practise a lot.

@ethxnnguyen 3 года назад

Zebra is actually in a phonetic alphabet, the ones that LAPD, EPPD, and many police departments use, Adam Boy Charles David Edward Frank George Henry Ida John King Lincoln Mary Nora Ocean Paul Queen Robert Sam Tom Union Victor William X-ray Young Zebra

@akshatjaveria9974 5 лет назад

This video is what i needed. Have exams in next 40 days. I need to remember 90 words(ex- United nations, Charitable org,healthcare,hospital,toll plaza,transportation etc.) in a row. Which method would be appropriate to remember all these words in a row except Memory palace? Love from India Nelson. :)

@Doerinq 5 лет назад

Why wold you not want to use a memory palace for this? It's the perfect method.

@akshatjaveria9974 5 лет назад

@@Doerinq I've already occupied places of memory palace to memorise different answers.

@Doerinq 5 лет назад

@@akshatjaveria9974 and? just choose a new memory palace. Just google "ideas for memory palaces" and I'm sure you will get some inspiration to find one. You have more memory palaces in your brain than you might think! ;)

@xilo3012 4 года назад

What happened with your exams? Worked?

@nateh9197 4 года назад

1:24 Felt that

@Ashishkumar-ye8le 4 года назад

Can you tell me how to memorize news

@milaslife90 4 года назад

Could you make a video of learning binary?

@xilo3012 4 года назад

I saw a system but don't remember. Was like assign numbers. 001 is 1, 010 is 2. Etc.

@brandonebert4452 4 года назад

it took me 4 years with this...

@JishanKhan-ff5zo 3 года назад

Genius

@satvikbanakar3691 2 года назад

The ones I know without watching hte video are: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliette, Kilo, Mike, and Zulu

@sonnetpoem 4 года назад

What do you do if you can find enough Mind Palaces?

@thaddeusummers 5 лет назад

Can you do more videos as this?

@NelsonDellis 5 лет назад

More of these meaning, videos where I memorize something along with you?

@thaddeussummers3774 5 лет назад

@@NelsonDellis yes please I find it helpful I'm sure many others will as well.

@gigachad9336 2 года назад

I learned some of them from call of duty 😎

@dionruiz3103 4 года назад

i already memorized it

@JayV688 4 года назад

You’re thinking of the wrong tribe with neck rings for Zulu. The long necked brass ring adorned people are from Southeast Asia. They’re called the Kayan or Padaung. It’s not even from the same continent.

@NelsonDellis 4 года назад

You're correct about the Zulu but you're wrong about the continent. The Northern Ndebele tribe in S. Africa wear them (who are related to the Zulu).

@JayV688 4 года назад

Nelson Dellis I suppose we’re both right then, because I wasn’t aware of the Ndebele people of Africa having such neck rings, and you were most likely not aware of the Kayan/Padaung people from Myanmar who also adorn such rings around their necks. Cheers

@A380msu 2 года назад

Numbers are missing.

@FurnitureFan 5 месяцев назад

💡Starts at 4:44 if you're in a hurry 🤷‍♀️

@m2rtenA 3 года назад

November Delta, here's Mike Alpha, we have a problem. on hearing

@redbengal16 4 года назад

I'm just trying to learn as many code languages as possible because I'm bored

@sydneyolson758 2 года назад

Literally the only one I keep missing is Romeo 😂

@vidmantas2846 Год назад

Hi, you are English or American?

@kgbird 3 года назад

Lima beans are delicious

@maxreilly3934 2 года назад

Alpha phonetic associated image memory

@RockDawgRadio 3 месяца назад

Also known as the 'Military Alphabet'

@keywestalert6329 3 года назад

Ha. I like this channel as you can see as he was talking about romeo he pipped Ryan Reynolds as the fat guy in a movie. Him having 2 Rs in his name. In addition he talked about Z and he said that it reminded him of African Tribes. I am guessing it is a reminder of amazon because of their logo A To Z. Africa T(o)ribe Z. I am almost certain that he intended for these to be in a very simple but genius video that no one would thinkuch of it but you are pretty good at what you do. Smart!. Almost. Lol just kidding.