diff --git a/python/exercise1/vowel_counter.py b/python/exercise1/vowel_counter.py
index a50949a..d06aaa6 100644
--- a/python/exercise1/vowel_counter.py
+++ b/python/exercise1/vowel_counter.py
@@ -2,21 +2,23 @@
 
 def num_vowels(text):
     """Return the number of vowels in string."""
-    vowels = "aeiou"
+    vowels = "aeiouy"
     num = 0
     for v in vowels:
         num += text.lower().count(v)        
     return num
 
 def num_consonants(text):
-    vowels = "aeiou"
-    for letter in text:
-        if letter not in vowels:
-            print("consonant", letter)
+    """Return the number of consonants in string."""
+    consonants= "bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz"
+    num1 = 0
+    for c in consonants:
+           num1 += text.lower().count(c)
+    return num1
     
 text = str(input("Enter a sentence: "))
-
 print("Number of vowels", num_vowels(text))
 print("Number of consonants", num_consonants(text))
 
 
+