#LSOY UNA TAZA FULL#
The giant stork drank eight glasses of whisky, plus fifteen full mugs of cold pale ale, and escaped in a taxi right away. Only then, in this position, you could try a short /ny/ sound that sort of blends with the next vowel.īut it can be even easier: What if I tell you that in a single sentence you can find every possible pronunciation of each letter of the alphabet? La cigüeña gigante bebió ocho copas de whisky, más quince jarras llenas de fría cerveza rubia, y enseguida huyó en un taxi. Ñ is a sort of middle term between those, that is, you should press the roof of your mouth with the middle of your tongue (the tip of it could simply rest behind your lower teeth).
It is not like n in “song” either, because you also do not use the back of your tongue. It is not like n in “son”, because you don’t use the tip of your tongue. Actually, you could think of the ñ as a new variety of n. Unfortunately, that is just a useful approximation, at best. It is commonly said that ñ is pronounced like n in “canyon” or in “onion”. The letter ñ represents a nasal palatal phoneme, which is a sound that does not exist in English. Basically, it may sound like a Spanish B (Wagner) or like an English W (Washington). The letter w is only used in foreign words, and its sound resemble the original foreign sound. The digraph rr is used to force a strongly trilled r between two vowels, e.g., perro (dog), correa (leash). In any other case it sounds as a strongly trilled r (again, Scottish style), i.e., at the beginning of a word, and after n, l, s, or some prefix: rápido (fast), honrado (honest), alrededor (around), Israel (Israel), subrayado (underlined). The letter r sounds like tt in “matter” (with USA accent) when: it is not at the beginning of a syllable, e.g., brazo (arm), tren (train), or when it is placed between two vowels: pero (but), Corea (Korea). The letter ll also sounds like j in “jet”, although in some regions may have a sound similar to y in “yet”. The letter y sounds like j in “jet” when it is placed at the beginning of a syllable: yo (I), mayo (May), and like y in “very” in any other case: y (and), muy (very).
So, Hola (hello) and ola (wave) have exactly the same pronunciation. But… what if we want to force the pronunciation of the u in gue/gui? Then, you must put a diaeresis (¨) over it, as in pingüino (penguin). Also: For g to sound like g in “got” before e/i, it must be followed by a silent u, as in guitarra (guitar). So, ga, ge, gi, ig, go, gu and ga, je, ji, ig, go, gu sound exactly the same. The letter g sounds like the Spanish j when it comes before e/i, and like g in “got” in any other case. The letter j may sound like h in “hot” (Hispanic America) or like ch in the Scottish word “loch” (Spain). Rare exceptions apart, ca, que, qui, co, cu and ka, ke, ki, ko, ku sound exactly the same.
#LSOY UNA TAZA PRO#
Exceptions are some Latin or foreign words such as quórum, quid pro quo, Iraq (Irak) or quark (quark), in which the u is either not silent or not written at all. Almost always, it is followed by a silent u, and is used with i or e only. The letter q always sounds like c in “cat”. Therefore, ca, ce, ci, ic, co, cu sounds exactly like ka, ze, zi, ik, ko, ku. The letter c sounds like the Spanish z (i.e, like s or th, depending on the country) when it comes before e or i, and like c in “cat” in any other case. The letter z may sound like s in “see” (Hispanic American accents) or like th in “thin” (standard Spaniard accent).
Note: in Spanish there is no distinction between short and long vowels as there is in English (e.g., as in “bit”/”beat”). To remember their sound, try this: “part, pet, pit, port, put”. However, they have only one possible pronunciation each. Pronunciation rules These are some easy rules that will help you with the pronunciation of any Spanish word: There are five vowels in the Spanish alphabet, the same as in English: a, e, i, o and u.
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