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None of these answers answer the question. The pronunciation of the s in Spain will vary a little by region. But, generally, the ese castellana (not unique to Spain but very common, hence the name) i …

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 …

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 [ …

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 …

Es fácil si ya sabes escribir la palabra que quieres decir. Hay tres reglas fáciles (síguelas en orden) Si hay tilde, acentúa la sílaba que lo alberga. Si acaba en A, E, I, O, U, N o S, acentúa la p …

That isn't [ʎ] but a hypercorrective [lj], often used by yeístas when trying to imitate non-yeísta pronunciation, such that I hear camelio, caudilio, etc. Mexico is fully yeísta, so such a pronunciati …

Short answer: no. Long answer: it is possible to hear the sound [v] as an allophone (that is, alternate) for /b/, but you won't hear it in any way systematically between the written letters b and v. …

It does, in the past. It would have been pronounced as [dz] with ç being the unvoiced equivalent [ts]. But following phonetic changes, spelling reforms have made it such that no (native) Spanish words …

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 …

En posición inicial o final, tenía una pronunciación sorda, como la actual, pero entrevocálicamente, salía sonora, como la Z de inglés o portugués. … El portugués mantiene esta diferencia tanto en su ortografía como en su pronunciación y por eso tenemos assim y seis con sonidos sordos, pero casa con el valor sonoro. …

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 …

There's a bit of a difference here between phonetics (represented between slashes //) and phonemics (represented between []). Phonetically, in Spanish, B and V are always /b/. That is to say, in a g …

This is a normal feature of Spanish (and indeed many other languages) called assimilation. More specifically, in this instance, it's called anticipatory coarticulation. When the normally alveolar voi …

If you know Latin and the word is of Latin origin, then it's generally possible to predict. As the RAE went modifying the orthography, while stressing etymological spellings, they recognized that some …

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 …