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Significado de “presente” en una carta. ¿Se escribe dos puntos después del destinatario?
Por ejemplo, suelo encontrar los encabezados de las cartas como sigue:
Cierta ciudad, Cierto país,
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Spanish to English - List of letters [closed]
I'm looking for a list of the alphabetic letters in the Spanish language (ES), each letter translated into English (EN) by hearing.
For example lets take a word, presented in Spanish & English:
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¿Cómo empezar una carta de manera formal/oficial?
Tengo que escribir una carta formal y quiero escribir de la misma manera y con el mismo respeto que en inglés (dear sir, dear madam), son dos personas que no son parientes pero quiero ser cortés con ...
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Regional pronunciations of “LL” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to pronounce the consonants y and ll?
I had one teacher that taught me to pronounce "LL" harshly, something like the English "J". Another teacher I learned from told ...
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Spanish phonetic alphabet
In English, there are several forms of the "phonetic alphabet" used to spell words in such a way that there can be no confusion what letter is said. For example, the military and aviation use:
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What is the symbol “&” called in Spanish?
The symbol & is a representation of the Latin word et (see DPD, Appendix 4). Wikipedia claims that the symbol itself is called et; however, the DRAE's entry for et doesn't list the symbol as a ...
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Historical pronunciation of letters “b” and “v”
In another question, a Wikipedia article was quoted saying:
The letters ⟨b⟩ and ⟨v⟩ were originally simply known as be and ve. However, there is no longer any distinction between the sounds of ...
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The letter “k” in Spanish
The letter "k" is rarely seen in Spanish. What is the origin of Spanish words containing a k? Are most recent loanwords from modern languages, influences from older languages (Latin or Greek), or of ...
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Was “rr” ever considered officially a letter of the Spanish alphabet?
Everybody agrees that the Spanish digraphs "ch" and "ll" used to be officially separate "letters" up to the time the RAE changed the rules of Spanish alphabetization in 1994.
But when it comes to the ...
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Names of letters “b” and “v”
The letters b and v have several possible names in Spanish. Is there an official, language academy-sponsored name for these letters? If not, what are the most common and standard names?
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How to pronounce the consonants “y” and “ll”?
I have heard y/ll pronounced in two different ways:
[j] (like 'y' in "yellow")
[ʒ] (like 's' in "measure")
Do native speakers use both interchangeably? Or is it pronounced [j] in some regions and ...
