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¿Por qué el ceceo solo se da en España?
La pronunciacion en el centro y el norte de España, como sabemos, proncuncia la "ce" y la "zeta" en forma difrente a la "ese" que es el unico sonido que se utliza para estas tres letras en ...
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Help me pronounce single “r”
I've recently started studying Spanish (Latin American) with Rosetta Stone. I think I'm doing trilled r's right but I'm not sure if I'm doing single r's right. Are they supposed to have a single ...
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¿Cómo se pronuncia RAE?
En el lenguaje hablado, ¿cómo se pronuncia las siglas RAE (Real Academia Española)? ¿Es con letras separadas, como si fuera una palabra unida, o algo más?
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¿Por qué razón en España suelen pronunciar los extranjerismos de acuerdo a las reglas del español y no a las reglas del idioma original?
En México y América Central los extranjerismos más recientes suelen pronunciarse de acuerdo a las reglas del idioma original, o más comúnmente aproximaciones o deformaciones de estas acercando la ...
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Regional pronunciations of “LL” [duplicate]
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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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Pronunciación de la letra ge
En un curso de Memrise.com hay extractos donde la ge en "amigo" y "lugar" se pronuncia como una leve jota, casi como una hache.
¿Es realmente la pronunciación castellana?
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Pronouncing years in Spanish
In English 1886 would be pronounced "eighteen-eighty six." In Spanish, is there something similar? Or do people outright say:
El año mil ochocientos ochenta y seis
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What accents do not use yeísmo?
Something I've wondered ever since I started learning Spanish about 8 years ago.
One often hears that the sound for "ll" and "y" is merged in "most accents". Wikipedia's IPA for Spanish guide, for ...
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¿Cómo se deben pronunciar las palabras que empiezan con “hue”?
Español
He notado que las letras "hue" de las palabras como: hueso, huerta y huevo son pronunciadas como "we" (español) como el nombre "Wenceslao", al menos aquí en México, en lugar de "ue". Por ...
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Is there a difference in the pronuciation of a single vowel or multiple vowels in a row?
There are several phrases, most of which are easily distinguished by context, that have very similar, if not the exact same pronunciation. The distinction I'm curious about is a single vowel in a ...
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What are some effective ways a foreign speaker can improve pronunciation in Spanish?
How can a foreign speaker (where a "foreign speaker" speaks Spanish as a second language) effectively improve their spoken Spanish by improving their pronunciation and reducing their foreign accent.
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How are words with “ps” or “pt” pronounced?
Here are a few examples:
psicología
ptosis
Ptolomeo
Interestingly is that "sicología" is also found in the RAE but most of the time I've seen it written as "psicología".
How are they ...
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Are there other words that can't be written? (like sal-le)
Recently, I learned that there is at least one Spanish word that can be pronounced but not written.
It is the imperative form of 'salirle'. It is prononunced as 'sal-le' and the written form should ...
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Why does “toalla” sound like “tualla”?
I am a native speaker from Mexico and I just noticed that the word "toalla" when pronounced sounds as if it has an "u" instead of an "o" as if you were pronouncing "tualla". This also happens with ...
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Why, when, and how did vowels E and I get special treatment from consonants like C,G & Q?
I think this question may involve more than Spanish, and may include Romance languages or even Latin.
I wonder why, when, and how did vowels E and I get special treatment from consonants like C, G, ...
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When do two vowels in Spanish form a diphthong? [duplicate]
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Rules applied to the separation of syllables
Diphthongs (or triphthongs) are sets of two or three vowels that are pronounced as a single syllable as opposed to being ...
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How are “first” and “second” books of the Bible pronounced?
The Bible has several books in multiple parts (e.g. 1 Corintios, 2 Pedro, 3 Juan). How are these books said out loud? For example, is 1 Pedro pronounced Primer de Pedro, Primero de Pedro, Primera de ...
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What is the difference between allí and ahí (“there”)?
English
What is the difference between allí and ahí? Is there any difference in pronunciation between the two? Are there any contexts where one is correct and one is wrong, or are they completely ...
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Audio maps of spanish dialects?
Apart from vocabulary differences, the spanish language has an enormous and fascinating diversity in pronunciation and accents. In my country (Argentina) people from the central inland region have a ...
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Can I learn to roll my R's?
Whenever I try to say words like perro or arroyo, I sound like I'm telling a pirate joke. I can identify the sound I'm supposed to make and I've been told how my tongue is supposed to move, but I ...
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How important is 'proper' pronunciation in Spanish and is it incorrect to 'make up' a dialect?
All languages have dialects, but there tend to be "major" dialects (e.g. For English, Canadian/American, a few of the British accents could be considered as the main dialects to consider learning ...
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Jumping between pronunciations of “y” in Spanish songs
I've heard a few songs (off the top of my head, A Dios Le Pido) where they pronounce "y" both with a y-sound and an English j-sound at times. In some songs, the different pronunciations occur when ...
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Why don't Spanish words start with “sp”?
I've noticed that there aren't any words in Spanish that start with sp. Latin words are altered to include an e in front of the sp. Even loan words are often modified to esp...:
spaghetti => ...
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Why is “Enrique” pronunced as though it has a double “r”?
Why is "Enrique", even though its 'r' position is at the middle of a word, pronounced as a double "r"? What are the orthographic rules you need to know to determine if an "r" must be pronounced as a ...
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¿Cómo se pronuncia un número de siglo?
Cuando leo artículos de Wikipedia, o libros historicales, es muy común encontrar una frase como siglo [numeración romana]. Por ejemplo,
Aljedrez, tal como se conoce actualmente, surgió en Europa ...
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Why is the “X” in México and Texas pronunced as the letter “J”?
English
Even as a native speaker I don't know the reason of this. Another example would be Xavier.
Español
Aunque el español es mi primera lengua, no sé por qué razón sucede esto. Otro ejemplo ...
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Does an accent mark change the pronunciation of single-syllable words?
I know that some single-syllable words (most pronouns, for example) come in two varieties, with and without an accent mark on the vowel.
"Él" has a different meaning than "el", but is it pronounced ...
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Are there native-born Spanish speakers that can't trill their R's?
It seems that one of the greatest difficulties some native-English speakers have is learning to trill their R's. Some, it seems, are completely incapable of performing this task.
Is this ever a ...
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Pronunciation of words ending in -n
It seems that some people pronounce words that end with -n almost as a "ng" sound. "Bien", for example, seems to come out as "Bie[ng]".
Is this a regional issue? What regions use this ...
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Approximant vs. fricative realization of /b/, /d/, /g/
According to the Wikipedia article on Spanish phonology, the phonemes /b/, /d/, and /g/ are realized as approximants or fricatives instead of plosives in all but certain contexts (after a pause, nasal ...
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Distribution of Spanish speakers regarding 's' and 'c' pronunciation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How is the letter 's' (or the 's' sound) pronounced in Spain?
We know that following groups of syllables
se, si, sa, so, su
ce, ci, za, zo, zu
can be pronunced in 3 ...
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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 ...
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How is the letter 's' (or the 's' sound) pronounced in Spain?
I've heard varying things regarding the pronunciation of the 's' sound in Spain. However, no one was willing/able to explain this to me.
How is the 's' sound pronounced in Spain compared to its ...
