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They didn't really even bother getting her to speak Spanish here: (she tried one line — with a mistake — and was like, "How was that?"). From the clip in TreeHouse's answer, you can tell a few things …

Los isn't conjugated — it's enclitic. That's the term for when a pronoun is attached to the verb. Nothing changes for pronunciation. For the vast majority of speakers, that will be /o/. The letter o …

That is perfectly normal. Spanish links sounds between words, especially when the latter starts with a vowel.

Etymologically, there is a hiatus: /es.pon.ta.ne.i'dad/ That said, in words that have hiatuses where the weak vowel is not also the stressed syllable of the word, there is a strong tendency for speak …

Yes and no. They are pronounced the same in isolation. However, the words tu and mi lack prosodic stress, that is, like a very limited number of words in Spanish (prepositions, articles, object pron …

This can happen in normal speech too. For many speakers of Spanish, the y will be pronounced as something better described as halfway between the English y and j. That's a rather inexact position, a …

The H in hacienda (or really anywhere else1) is not pronounced at all. It's a silent letter. The X used to have a sound similar to the SH in English and the J had a sound similar to English's J (if …

There are a few reasons why words get accents: The word does not follow natural stress. The problem you'll find with this rule is that you either need to know a word's pronunciation to know how to a …

Veintidós is by far the most common as that matches the pronunciation of (as far as I know) every single Spanish-speaker. It used to be acceptable to say veinte y dos and you'll probably see it still …

There are three ways that you can pronounce it: /brái.le/ (DUE María Moliner) /brái.lle/ (Fundéu BBVA) /brái.ye/ (Fundéu BBVA, for yeístas) I normally use the first, but Fundéu BBVA argues that th …

All countries use both the /r/ and /ɾ/ phoneme. Not all countries realize them, respectively, as the roll/trill [r] and the flap [ɾ] (for Puerto Rico for instance you often get /r/ as [h] and /ɾ/ as [ …

Normalmente en aquellos casos, no hay una pronunciación asentada en el idioma, por lo tanto, se escucha varias cosas. … estable o estándar, no se puede dar indicaciones de pronunciación. …

The phoneme for a word-final r is /r/, which is generally trilled, that is [r], in most dialects, although it's also possible for an untrilled sound based on emphasis and other contextual factors. …

You can pronounce it as [b] and everyone will understand you no problem, but your pronunciation will sound very forced (as [β̞] is really a softened form of [b], you almost pronounce a B, but you just …

This is a good question, and unfortunately the answer is, "it depends". The Spanish letter d has different pronunciations depending on where it comes in a word. Word-initially, it will generally hav …