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| Sep 19, 2019 at 15:40 | comment | added | aparente001 | @LisaBeck - Thanks for the links. They did go kind of overboard (lips held tense, easily tempted beginners...). I guess I should count myself lucky that the internet didn't exist when I learned Spanish as a young adult. | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 15:35 | history | edited | aparente001 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 19, 2019 at 8:12 | comment | added | Lisa Beck | Pronouncing the Spanish ‘B’ and ‘V’ and How to pronounce the Spanish letter "v"..., are just some of the sites that instruct speakers to pronounce the "v" "like a 'b'" (at least in some situations). All I'm suggesting is that students of Spanish not go overboard w/the instructions they receive for how to pronounce the "v"; it is still quite similar to the English "v" ... more so than some may have been led to believe. | |
| Sep 19, 2019 at 8:03 | comment | added | Lisa Beck | No one told me not to pronunce the "v" like a "v," but I have seen this advice on the web (or advice that might incline one to "overcompensate" to the point of losing the qualities of the "v" sound). NTL, I concede that the sound of the "v" may depend on various aspects such as the placement of this letter w/in a sentence or word, the region, and even the speaker. As for who is dispensing this advice, various sites (and I'm not even disputing what they claim because I haven't studied this topic all that extensively), I'll link you to some in my next comment. | |
| Sep 7, 2019 at 6:22 | comment | added | aparente001 | @LisaBeck - Wait, who told you not to pronounce Spanish v like English v? // Consider the sentence, "Los ábacos ya no se usan tanto en China como antes." Many people will pronounce this more like "ávacos" than ábacos. And some people will pronounce "vale" like "bale." It's important that you know this, to support your understanding of spoken Spanish. It's not important that you have two versions of B and two versions of V in your own pronunciation repertoire. That is not necessary. People will understand you just fine without that. | |
| Sep 6, 2019 at 3:30 | comment | added | Lisa Beck | All pronunciation tips aside, what I have learned is that the Spanish "v" is a whole lot closer to the English "v" than some would have you believe. When I keep this in mind, my audio graphs more closely approximate those of the native speaker. Just my two cents. Obviously, I'm not including too much science or linguistic terminology in this comment. I merely add it to help others learn from the mistakes I now can see and hear I've been making. | |
| Sep 6, 2019 at 3:30 | comment | added | Lisa Beck | I'd just like to point out something I've learned from my own observations with pronunciation of the "b" and the "v" in Spanish. In an effort to improve my pronunciation, I have used tools that graph out the sound uttered by native speakers using words containing these two letters (and then compare it to my own). What I have discovered is that the advice given to beginning students of Spanish can vary. This page here, is a good example of that. | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 16:58 | comment | added | pablodf76 | Note that if you said cien vacas most speakers will pronounce v as a stop, a bit like ciembacas. So it's not whether it's at the beginning of the phrase or not, but rather, what (if anything) is before it. As with French, a nasal consonant blocks lenition. | |
| Jul 6, 2018 at 2:40 | history | answered | aparente001 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |