Questions tagged [pronunciación]
Normas o consejos de pronunciación. // Rules or advice about pronunciation
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Are there consistent rules for pronouncing "c" and "g"?
I want to write a software program that will "Americanize" the pronunciation of Spanish text (using Mexican pronunciation) so that it is easier for English speakers learning Spanish to be ...
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Pronunciation of -mente Adverbs
The general rule for Spanish pronunciation is that, barring an accent, words that end with vowels have stresses placed on the second-to-last syllable. However, with adverbs, there seem to be ...
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Vocal epentética en el infinitivo del español colombiano
Hoy un colombiano que conozco estaba leyendo una carta en voz alta. Mantenía una pronunciación (o bien, característica lingüística) curiosa que no asociaba con su país natal, que es la existencia de ...
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Why I listen two different pronunciations of the word "alfil"?
I started to play chess with a couple of Mexican friends. Since I don't play very well, they recommended me some videos of Spanish-speaker YouTubers to learn chess and something of Spanish at the same ...
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Do any Spanish words exist that aren't pronounced as expected from their spelling?
English is a language that does not have a consistent system for the pronunciation of words with similar spellings (e.g. compare rough with through), this can lead to a situation where it is not ...
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¿Por qué tan poco estudio sobre las vocales del español puertorriqueño?
Muchos de los fenómenos consonánticos del español puertorriqueño se saben (como la lenición de /s/ y /n/ finales, lateralización o lenición de la rótica implosiva, uvularización de /r/ y otros), pero ...
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Properly pronounce "cabellos" in Argentinian dialect of Spanish
Modern day sources suggest [dʒ] for 'll' in cabello/cabellos in Argentinian Spanish.
However, this not-so-old recording clearly has [s] (not [dʒ]) for 'll' in cabellos.
Does this mean that Argentinian ...
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¿En qué lugares se usa "ves" como imperativo de "ir"?
Por experiencia propia sé que en algunos sitios de España es común decir "ves" en lugar de "ve" como imperativo del verbo ir. Los casos con los que me he encontrado son:
Cataluña. Ignoro el motivo, ...
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Voiceless vs voiced stops / Plosivas sordas vs sonoras
About unaspirated voiceless consonant and voiced consonants.
For example, in pa.pe.pi.po.pu and ba.be.bi.bo.bu, ta.te.ti.to.tu and da.de.di.do.du, ca.co.cu and ga.go.gu, their pronunciations are too ...
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The distinction among ke, gue, que, and ce, ze
As title, I cannot tell the differences.
The most important is I found some spanish speakers write 'k' instead of 'que'.
Why?
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¿Es correcto escribir "cuídate"? ¿dónde se debe poner la tilde? ¿y el acento?
Hace poco pregunté ¿Por qué la palabra "huida" no lleva tilde? y guifa dio una fantástica explicación al respecto: ui es siempre diptongo, independientemente de si una de las dos ...
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¿Cómo se llama la rama de la lingüística que estudia la entonación?
El tono en el que se transmite un mensaje en cualquier lengua, también el español, influye tremendamente en lo que se pretende transmitir.
Un simple "¿Qué?", en función de la entonación ...
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What are some good analogies I can use to explain ordinal numbers in an English translation?
I was recently having a conversation with my mother, who is Spanish-speaking only, after she was informed by someone who only spoke English that some work was going to be done on her street on the ...
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In simple terms, how do you pronounce the S in Spain?
I am aware that the Iberian pronunciation of S is different from the Latin American one – it is sometimes likened to the English “sh” – but I do not know how to pronounce it myself.
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Are "seis" and "siete" phonetically similar to the Spanish language learners?
I am aware that this question may be on the verge of Offtopicland, but I am very curious about something regarding these two numbers. Here's the story...
When I was learning Japanese (a long time ago ...
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How is the letter "o" pronounced?
I know that in Spanish, all vowels have one pronunciation. But I don't see
that being followed by the letter "o".
Some words pronounce the "o" more like the stressed, first "o&...
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Spanish pronunciation of the word no
In Duolingo sessions, I keep tripping up over some mysterious difference between "no" being pronounced as "NO!" [no] and "NOH!" [nɔ]. What's the difference between these?
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Two pronunciations for 'yo'?
I am learning Spanish at Duolingo, and am encountered a basic sentence,
Yo bebo
but heard two different pronunciations for 'yo': one is [yo] as in New York, and the other is [jo] as in the English ...
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Are the pronunciations for 'él' and 'el' different?
I wonder if él and el are pronounced differently.
I can hear the sound here for él, but there is no sound file for el here
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¿El andaluz es una lengua como el catalán?
He tenido preguntas sobre que si el andaluz es un idioma como el catalán o el euskera, porque se nota un poco la diferencia del habla, es decir, la pronunciación entre el castellano y andaluz.
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Any variety with the palatal glide [j] in words like cuello?
Some friends of mine insist that in some varieties of Spanish, words like cuello and yo have the palatal glide [j] in them. However, I've only ever found the palatal lateral liquid [ʎ] or the palatal ...
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Is there an accent that pronounces "s" as ⟨θ⟩?
I have an audiobook (meant for beginners learning Spanish) where the speaker has an accent I don't recognize. I know that in Spain some z's and c's are pronounced like an English th (IPA: ⟨θ⟩). But in ...
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Pronunciación del diptongo en aun
'Aun' es utilizado sin acento cuando esta palabra se puede sustituir por 'aunque', 'siquiera' o 'incluso'.
Mientras que 'aún' con acento es utilizado cuando la palabra se puede sustituir por 'todavía'....
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Difference between «b» and «v» in practice
Recently, I started to learn Spanish and like many before me I feel confused about b/v pronunciation. I found a good explanation here. One thing is still not crystal clear, though. It seems that ...
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Cómo pronuncio la r suave?
Disclaimer: Hablo español, el español es mí lengua materna así que por favor no me digan que se pronuncia como la tt en "butter".
Nunca pude pronunciarla creo yo, y cuando intento ...
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When to drop the 's' at the end of words in Spain?
I often hear people say things like "mucha gracias" instead of "muchas gracias". When do you usually drop the 's'? And where is this common? I currently live in Barcelona.
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Pronunciation spelling in "Ejpaña"
I know of no phonological process in any dialect that, before a bilabial plosive, converts/accommodates the interdental fricative in the velar larynx. Therefore, I would like to know what the spelling ...
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Something in-between an audible separation between two syllables or two syllables and a diphthong in Spanish
There are words that have something in-between an audible separation between two syllables or two syllables and a diphthong.
For example, the brē part of the Classical Latin word celebrētur, which ...
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How to predict the pronunciations of loanwords?
The letter "c" (before "e"/"i") is generally pronounced as [θ] in Castilian Spanish, and [s] in Andalusian/"Latin American" Spanish.
Likewise, "j" (...
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When would Spanish speakers pronounce the "j" like the English "j"?
The Spanish "j" is most commonly pronounced like the English "h". In Castillian Spanish, it is pronounced like the "ch" in "loch".
I have recently heard Spanish ...
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What rules do I determine for pronouncing "c", "j", "l", "s", "x", and "z"? [closed]
I want to write a computer program and draw flowcharts that will "Anglicize" the pronunciation of Spanish text of select consonants for English speakers learning Spanish to pronounce the ...
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C as K and S and silent (rules of thumb for pronunciation of C?)
I am just learning Spanish. For the most part, I find that pronunciation is very consistent. However, I am having a little difficulty with the letter "C." Most of the time it is pronounced like "K" in ...
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How to predict the pronunciation of the letters "b", "v", and "h"?
I have learnt that in Spanish, the "b" and "v" have similar pronunciations, and their pronunciation depends on their position in the word. In the beginning of a word, or after an "m" or an "n", the ...
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¿Qué reglas de acentuación y pronunciación se usan en los préstamos lingüísticos?
Supongamos que uso un préstamo lingüístico, por ejemplo:
Estoy ahora adentro del car
En este caso una palabra en inglés, rodeada de palabras en español en una oración.
¿Aplico las reglas de ...
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Palatalisation of velar consonants (/k/, /g/, /x/) before front vowels (/e/, /i/)
I noticed, in a Chilean speaker, that she palatalised /x/ before /e/ and /i/ (e.g. inteligente sounding like [inteliˈxʲente]). According to wikipedia, this phenomenon is distinctive of Chilean Spanish ...
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Uso de "r" como "rr" tras consonante en el español medieval
Siguiendo con la saga de preguntas sobre "r/rr", buscando en el CORDE me di cuenta de que hay muchos textos de alrededor de los siglo XV y XVI que contienen una "rr" tras ...
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El vs La for Feminine Noun [duplicate]
Sometimes, we use el before a feminine noun, e.g. 'agua', 'ama', 'hambre' and the reason for the same is that the word starts with 'a' (or 'ha') and we do not want to have two 'a' one after another. ...
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Why does Latin America not “lisp” consonants, having learned its Spanish from Spain?
I am referring to the sounds made by the letters ⟨z⟩ and the soft ⟨c⟩ the way they’re said in Spain, like in the Spanish words zorro and cena. (This is the unvoiced dental fricative sound heard at ...
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How should I pronounce programming language names (like "Java") and technical terms (like "JSON") in Spanish?
In Spanish, English names are usually pronounced following English rules. E.g. we pronounce "Peter" as "piter" (that's to be read in plain Spanish, i.e. "pee-ter").
However, some tech-related words ...
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Does the “y” sound carry over to the next syllable in common speech?
In some South American accents, the “y” sound is pronounced like the English “j”. However, when “y” is located at the end of words such as “soy” and “estoy”, the “y” is pronounced as the English “i”.
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No se escucha muy claramente
Necesito ayuda con -2:02 a -1:57. Creo que dice algo como "Esa justicia de la puerta seguir investigando y a poder resolvar 400 casos de robados que..." pero no tiene mucho sentido. Parece ...
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Question on pronouncing two identical vowels in a row
I'm starting to self study Spanish and I'm trying to use Duolingo. On the site for a sentence like "Tu tren está aquí", the audio pronounces as "estaqui", only saying the "a&...
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División en sílabas de palabras con -tl- (atlas, atleta etc.)
¿Cómo se separan en sílabas las palabras que tienen la secuencia de consonantes tl entre vocales?
Por ejemplo:
atlas: ¿at-las o a-tlas?
atleta: ¿at-le-ta o a-tle-ta?
decatlón: ¿de-cat-lón o de-ca-...
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¿Por qué la eñe se pronuncia como /ni/ en Buenos Aires?
Me he dado cuenta de que algunas personas de Buenos Aires pronuncian la eñe como /ni/ en vez de /ɲ/: año /'ani.o/.
Me parece particularmente interesante porque va en contra de la tendencia popular de ...
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¿Por qué la equis se pronuncia /ks/ en algunos topónimos mexicanos?
La letra X representaba históricamente la fricativa palatal sorda [ʃ], consonante normal en el español del s. XVI que luego sufrió cambios hasta llegar a pronunciarse [x], o sea como fricativa velar ...
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Pronunciacion de las frases como "he + e-verbo" y "ha + a-verbo"
En las frases como "lo ha acabado", "lo he hecho", muchas veces las escucho pronunciadas como si fuesen "lo acabado", "lo hecho" -- sin "ha" y "...
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Diferencias regionales en la pronunciación de la letra "c" (aspiración)
He notado que en algunos lados he escuchado a la gente pronunciar palabras como "Acá" con la letra "C" aspirada como en la palabra "Car" en inglés.
¿Entonces en cuáles países o regiones del mundo ...
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Does my singing sound fluent?
UPDATE AGAIN: i'm singing this other song to practice. any advice would be appreciated!!!
EDIT: i just realized, i was erroneously attempting to roll the R's that followed "t" and "c&...
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How are vowels pronounced differently (regarding lip and/or tongue placement) in Spanish than in English?
When I was in college, one of my professors said something about vowels being pronounced differently in Spanish than in English, but I don't remember exactly what it was.
I'm not asking what sounds ...
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Errores ortográficos con consonantes en ejercicios de comprensión auditiva: p/b/v, r/l, d/t, y/ll, c/qu/g, c/s
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¡Hola a todos! Empecé a aprender español desde cero recientemente y ahora estoy en el nivel principiante (A1). Tengo algunos ...
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