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This video is useful for students who learn Slovene at a beginner level. While watching the video, they can study the letters of the Slovene alphabet together with their pronunciation, and simultaneously they can learn vocabulary. Lecturers can incorporate the video in their lessons to cover subject-related activities with its help. With the accompanying activities, students study the letters of the Slovene alphabet in writing and speaking alike, learn vocabulary and build their Slovene skills by listening, reading, writing, and speaking. Different activities and types of student work make this compulsory part of language dynamic and interesting. Innovation: The alphabet is a must when it comes to learning any language. Even if the study material is fixed, the variability potential of accompanying activities can make the students discover the importance of autonomous, indirect, passive, and subliminal learning and skill development what they can extrapolate to other fields of studies, making the whole learning process closer, more natural, and enjoyable to them and their future students. The language of the resource is Slovene, therefore it cannot be used in classes of teaching other languages. However, the accompanying activities can fit any other language. The students’ understanding, and acquisition of the video’s material can easily be monitored before, during and after watching it. Adaptability: Although the video represents a fixed content, it can be played once or twice, altogether or interrupted while the accompanying activities are variable. Usability: The essential language topic of the letters of the alphabet in the video, its length, accompanying activities, and little technical requirements makes this resource easily usable. The video is usable in classrooms with computers with internet, speakers, and projectors. Students can also watch it at home.