Questions tagged [pronunciación]
Normas o consejos de pronunciación. // Rules or advice about pronunciation
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¿Cómo se pronuncia "ghee" en español?
Leyendo sobre el ghee me ha entrado la duda acerca de cómo pronunciar la palabra en español. ¿Como "jee" o como "guee"?
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How to transliterate 中文 in Mandarin pronunciation to Spanish?
I am working on an art project that I would like to collect the hundreds of different transliterations of 「中文」 zhōng wén in Mandarin Chinese. (Pronunciation available here: https://translate.google....
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Why is Argentinian pronunciation different from other countries?
I was watching some Argentinian telenovelas to get used to Spanish language and noticed that there's a different pattern regarding the pronunciation of the imperative command than what Michel Thomas ...
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¿Debo pronunciar la 'a' del grupo 'ae' en locuciones latinas?
Las siguientes según el DRAE son "locuciones latinas", y me parece que son bastante frecuentes:
curriculum vitae
lapsus linguae
ab aeterno
Mi hábito es pronunciar la [a] de vitae, pero no pronunciar ...
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Is "google" a verb in Spanish?
Is google a verb in Spanish?
If it is, how can I conjugate it? Googlear sounds really weird.
Is it pronounced differently too?
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Transliteración del apellido ruso, Волков
Волков es un apellido ruso que en las letras latinas se ha escrito en varias formas. Una que parece ocuparse hoy día en varios idiomas es Volkov, y otra que yo sé que se ha usado en español, pero hace ...
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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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Are there any dialects of modern Spanish which preserve a phonemic distinction between b and v?
Are there any dialects of modern Spanish which preserve a phonemic distinction between b and v?
I understand that by the 1600s it was largely gone from Castillian Spanish, but since some other ...
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Is Spanish language's pronunciation systematic?
Is Spanish language's pronunciation systematic? That is: do pronunciation and alphabet correspond to each other? If so, I will be able to learn Spanish's pronunciation easily.
¿Es la pronunciación ...
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¿Había en español alguna diferencia entre la Ƈ y la C?
Siguiendo con la saga de preguntas basadas en la primera Orthographía española de 1741, la siguiente trata sobre las posibles diferencias que había entre la C normal y la C con gancho (Ƈ), que existía ...
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¿Qué diferencia había entre la grafía ſ y la s?
En 1741, el abecedario del español se componía de la siguiente forma:
Como se ve, la actual letra s minúscula se escribía entonces usando la grafía ſ. Sin embargo, había casos en los que sí se usaba ...
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Letras "ã õ ũ ẽ" en español antiguo
Hace unas semanas me encontré con un texto antiguo donde ã õ ũ ẽ sustituían a las silabas an on un en. Por ejemplo "ẽtõces" en lugar de "entonces".
No pude encontrar otra vez ese texto.
Quisiera ...
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Pronunciación anormal de "ahí" en "vete por ahí"
El "ahí" de "vete por ahí" parece pronunciarse de dos formas diferentes:
Cuando se utiliza para indicar una dirección, se pronuncia correctamente, como palabra aguda.
Cuando se utiliza como ...
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Written accent in verbs
Consider those two examples :
1) "cantar", which is written "canto" (present, first person) or "cantó" (simple past, third person). Is the pronunciation different in those two cases? According to ...
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Is pronunciation of letter 'x' before consonant as [s] is obsolete?
I'm learning how to read and pronounce Spanish words.
In a few references that I've seen, it is said that the letter 'x' is pronounced as [s] when it is before consonant as in word excusar.
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Pronunciar «tr-» y «-str-»
Estoy aprendiendo español, y es un poco difícil para mí pronunciar «tr-» como en «traer», y todavía más difícil pronunciar «-str-» como en «maestro». No tengo problemas con estos sonidos en inglés, mi ...
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If certain words undergo a spelling change from "z" to "c" in order to preserve the soft sound of the "z," is there a "hard z" in Spanish?
I was recently reviewing a page over at Span¡shD!ct and though I had read the following (or something similar) numerous times before, I have never stopped to really think about why the "z" ...
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Regional pronunciation of "ll": [j] vs [ʎ]
I'm well aware that ll may be pronounced differently according to regions. We already have this question on the most common pronunciations of [j] and [ʒ]. But I've come across a couple examples on ...
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Pronunciación letras "d", "b" y "v" entre vocales
Mi lengua nativa es el español y recientemente me percaté que al momento de pronunciar la letra d, como en el caso de
cada, asado, soldado, jugada, nado
y la letra b (o v como fonema b) como en
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Stress in "significa"
Where does the spoken stress lie in the word "significa", as in "qué significa"? I always hear it stressed on the second "i", but wouldn't that imply that it should be written "signífica", which it ...
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¿Los venezolanos pronuncian la letra H?
Is it common practice throughout Venezuela for people to pronounce the letter H? I've seen news footage of people in Caracas saying "tengo hambre" as though it were spelled "tengo jambre". Do they do ...
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¿Es correcto pronunciar "hiede" con una h sonora?
No sé si sea correcto, pero le he escuchado a mucha gente (e inconscientemente es la primera pronunciación que se me ocurre cuando pienso en la palabra) la pronunciación de hiede con una h sonora (...
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Is the Spanish word for "academy" pronounced the same as it is for "academia?"
I was recently making a recording that included the word "academy," and wanting to be certain of where the stress was placed in that word, I looked it up. The sources I used indicated that it is ...
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Is the v in "vino" pronunciated as a b or v? [duplicate]
I am learning Castillian Spanish and have been given different information by 2 people from mainland Spain (Europe).
I understand that the v sounds like a b (also I've heard it described as a soft b) ...
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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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Why is the pronunciation of the v in the grapes "las uvas" different? [duplicate]
I have been taught that unlike in English, the -b and the -v are pronounced the same way in Spanish. They both sound like the -b in bat.
For example, "violeta, bola, vino, votar, botar" all start ...
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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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Is there a rule of thumb to guess if the word is spelled -ll- / -y-, -g- / -j- / -x-?
Is there any hint to guess, when I hear an unknown word, if is is spelled with ll / y ?
Is there any hint to guess, when I hear an unknown word, if is is spelled with g / j / x ?
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Selena Gomez's pronunciation [closed]
I'm listening to some of Selena Gomez's Spanish songs (she has a couple), and though I love her music, something feels the tiniest bit off. Her pronunciation doesn't sound quite right, but I can't ...
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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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Is the /p/ sound aspirated in Spanish?
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I want to improve my pronunciation of words beginning with p, such as pleno, práctica, and padre. I have been taught that I should put my hand in front of my mouth when I say these words, ...
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Pronouncing words with the letter "d" followed by the letter "r" - Podría
I have no problem pronouncing the letter d correctly in Spanish except when it's followed by the letter r .
For example, in the words podría or Madrid. It's a challenge for my whole vocal system. ...
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How exactly is the letter "s" pronounced in Spain when NOT lisped? [duplicate]
Note: I am not asking about about seseo vs distinción, /s/ vs /θ/, or how "ce/ci/z" is pronounced in Spain vs Latin America. This question is about the letter s and the sound /s/, as in ser, español, ...
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Is the dropped /s/ in Argentina a class marker?
I'm watching La pelea de mi vida, an Argentinean film, and in it the characters are dropping their esses all over the place. E'ta, e'tuve, even stuff like E' muy e'traño and E'to tene'
The film is ...
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What word could I be hearing here?
I've been listening to some Spanish audio files which, at the end of each chapter, go back over the chapter in a form of summary. The reader always says something that sounds like, "Vijemonos" (Bvee ...
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pronunciation of final n as [ŋ]
I've heard the 'n' in "Me llaman Carlos" voiced as [ŋ] (the "ng" sound in English).
Is it ever correct to voice it as "Me ʝaman kaɾlos"?
Under what circumstances is 'n' voiced as [ŋ] versus [n]?
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Why is the 'b' and 'v' pronunciation inconsistent?
I've learnt that the v sound in Spanish is pronounced as a "b", however why are some words such as "por favor" and "Revolucion" pronounced as a "v"? Also, is this type of pronunciation Spanish (spoken ...
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How do you say "Braille" in Spanish?
Out of curiosity, I put the word "Braille" into Google Translate, and it said the Spanish version was... 'el braille'. But when I try to read that, the phonetics are incredibly awkward for a Spanish ...
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Is this a mistranslation due to misunderstanding the British accent and English contractions?
In "Treasure Island" this:
"I have a son of my own," said he, "as like you as two blocks, and he's all the pride of my 'art.
...is translated as:
Yo tengo un hijo de tu edad, añadió, que se te ...
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how do you pronounce "los" when conjugated?
How do you pronounce "los" when conjugated? For example, in Verlos (e.g. see them).
Is it like "Los" in "lost"? Or Louhse?
I know there will probably be variation, but I am trying to avoid the wrong ...
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Origin of the velar "rr" sound in Puerto Rico
I have always wondered the existence, alone in Puerto Rico of all Spanish language countries, of the VELAR "rr" sound, similar to a common pronunciation seen in French (as in the word "Paris"). ...
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Pronunciation on "ll" for in the sentence "me llamo" [duplicate]
How do you pronounce the consonants "ll"?? I want to say my name in Spanish but I keep saying "ll" like how Americans say in English.Then people say that I am wrong but don't tell me how to.
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What do native Spanish speakers do if they cannot roll the r? [duplicate]
What do native speakers of Spanish do when for some reason or another, they cannot roll their r´s? I´ve seen that many speakers in South America make a zh sound like in the English word measure (I ...
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Why is the "H" in Hector pronounced?
The letter "H" is usually (always?) silent in Spanish. So why is the name "Hector" pronounced "Heck-ter" and not "Eck-ter"?
Or is "Hector" an anglicization of the spelling of a name which is really "...
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Veinte y * vs. Veinti*
Which is more commonly used to say twenty-two?
veinte y dos
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veintidós
I know for numbers above 30 that the first example is always the case. I am also wondering about 16-19.
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Dónde poner énfasis
Buenos, amigos. Yo quiero comenzar a decir que mi Espanol es muy malo, pero estoy aprendiendo.
Mi pregunta es, cuando hablas una palabra con dos piezas, como sabes donde poner el enfasis?
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Learning how to place accent marks
I have learned in my Spanish studies that there are rules that most Spanish words follow in terms of accentuation.
More specifically, words fall into the categories of agudas, graves, and esdrújulas.
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What's the position of my tongue when I speak Spanish 'd'? [duplicate]
Comparing with Spanish 't', put the tip of tongue behind the upper teeth and press a bit to pronounce it, when it comes to 'd' sound, just put the tip of my tongue between the upper teeth and the ...
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