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What are Spanish pronunciation that are different to English?

tam_pro8x - 2009-11-28 09:26:05 - Languages

when there is GJ in the vocab it sound as H, H don't pronounce, C sounds see, ZS dont pronounce. Any other things? Other vocabs, I can pronounce same like English pronunciation ? like La Casa, I can say same as English pronunciation.

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V is pronounced like B. But, in some cases, the V sound is more like a vibration of your lips. There are 2 different ways to pronounce D. There's a soft D, which is pronounced like a TH, and a regular D. G is pronounced either like an H or just a regular G, depending on it's position in the word. Z's are pronounced more like an S. E is pronounced like an A in the English alphabet. I is pronounced like EE. U is pronounced like OO. R's are either rolled or just a tap of the tongue against the roof of your mouth, depending on its position in a word. RR is a rolled R. CUA (as in the word "cuatro" ) is pronounced as KWA CUE (as in the word "cuero") is pronounced like KWEY and so on... LL are pronounced like Y in the English word "yuck." Here are words that are close enough to English pronunciation: El agua (ah-gwa) - water El metro (may-tro) - subway Los shorts - shorts Los pantalones (pan-ta-lone-ace) - pants La mano - hand La cama - bed La camisa (kah-me-sah) - shirt marzo (mar-so) - March (the month) El show - show (a TV show) La chica - girl El chico- boy El café (kah-fey) - coffee El papel (pah-pel) - paper El árbol - tree La boca (boh-kah) - mouth Domingo (doh-meen-go) - Sunday I hope this helped. :)

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Spanish "L" is a little different from the English "L". In Spanish, the "L" sounds more like the German "L". Also, Spanish "QU" sounds like "K". The main difference between Spanish and English is that we have just 5 sounds for vowels, we don't have long or short vowels and of course we pronounce every vowel in a word with its distinctive sound, not like e.g. "seam" in English, that sounds like a long Spanish "i".

V is pronounced like B. But, in some cases, the V sound is more like a vibration of your lips. There are 2 different ways to pronounce D. There's a soft D, which is pronounced like a TH, and a regular D. G is pronounced either like an H or just a regular G, depending on it's position in the word. Z's are pronounced more like an S. E is pronounced like an A in the English alphabet. I is pronounced like EE. U is pronounced like OO. R's are either rolled or just a tap of the tongue against the roof of your mouth, depending on its position in a word. RR is a rolled R. CUA (as in the word "cuatro" ) is pronounced as KWA CUE (as in the word "cuero") is pronounced like KWEY and so on... LL are pronounced like Y in the English word "yuck." Here are words that are close enough to English pronunciation: El agua (ah-gwa) - water El metro (may-tro) - subway Los shorts - shorts Los pantalones (pan-ta-lone-ace) - pants La mano - hand La cama - bed La camisa (kah-me-sah) - shirt marzo (mar-so) - March (the month) El show - show (a TV show) La chica - girl El chico- boy El café (kah-fey) - coffee El papel (pah-pel) - paper El árbol - tree La boca (boh-kah) - mouth Domingo (doh-meen-go) - Sunday I hope this helped. :)