In the recording below, I say the phrase Got to eat a matador two times.

Typically, the.

But there are at least 39 phonetic sounds in modern Spanish speech.

Be sure to return this page regularly as you improve your pronunciation.

X is usually pronounced like the English KSsound when between vowels.

As an English speaker you developed hearing and speaking patterns that clash with the Spanish sound system.

The diacritical mark over this letter is called a tilde. In English we create the T and D sounds by touching the tip of the tongue against the upper gumline.

Remember, the only way to actually become fluent is to practice speaking Spanish until the new sounds feel natural and the pronunciation becomes automatic. So to review, here are all five vowels of Spanish with the ways we tend to pronounce them in English.

This audio compares the English and Spanish Pronunciation of the name Ana. Mimic my pronunciation so that you can feel the difference.

This does nothappen in Spanish. For this letter, there is a soft and a strong sound.

El periodista Fernando Navarro acaba de dar a la imprenta una recopilacin de sus piezas escritas durante la pandemia. There are two sounds associated with the letter r in Spanish (see above), but the most difficult one to pronounce is the rolled rr. If it is a cousin of the English r, it is a very distant cousin that never visits. The audio compares the English and Spanish pronunciation of the word no. Mimic my pronunciation so that you can feel the difference. In the beginning of words, make this sound exactly the same as in English (noche, nada).

You might feel silly stepping our of your comfort zone and sounding like someone else, but trust that you will look even sillier if you dont. /p/pillow, paper/p/peso, sopa

For this, our tongue needs to come further down and further.

For E we glidenear to I as in the word Hey! (He->i). etc.

At The Mimic Method, we like to use a, But to make things easier for you, were going to be talking about Spanish alphabet pronunciation as well as. Even more important, they are also one of the most common speech sounds in the language. Nenenoche, antes For this letter, there is a soft and a strong sound.

A vowel chart plots the location of a vowel sound in your mouth. Sesecasa, seor /f/foot, fire/f/fuerte, gafas Listen to the audio example between the words two and t. As said earlier, most guides just teach you things like the alphabet and make you miss out on the nuances of sounds which really give you better pronunciation.

You might feel silly stepping our of your comfort zone and sounding like someone else, but trust that you will look.

Lelehola, leche A vowel chart plots the location of a vowel sound in your mouth.

In Spanish, vowel sounds account for only five letters but make up over 80% of the actual speed sound you will produce. /.

To do this, you have to stick your tongue out a bit further. For example: si (conditional, similar to if) / s (yes) and tu (your) / t (you). In all cases, and A is and A no matter which part of the word it occupies.

As a Spanish learner, you may have a strong tendency as an English speaker to replace the Spanish /.

The three vowel sounds on this page are the extremes in Vowel Height and Backness. There are three unique features which make the vowel sounds distinctively, Since we all speak our native languages without thinking about the movements in our mouth, you probably cant feel what direction your tongue is moving when you speak.

This is actually a very common sound in English. Uujugo, mucho

By understanding the things youre inclined to do wrong, you can begin to make sense of these differences.

Just like learning your native language, producing Spanish sounds will require a lot of repetition and a willingness to sound a little silly.

glide up near the I vowel. This consonant is important to pay attention to in order to sound more authentic.

Please review our Privacy Policy to learn more about how we process this data. Acoustically, the English // sound is completely different from the Spanish R //.

Soft C turns into silent TH in Spain.casa, cine

So thats why we make the first step to learning a language about learning what the people actually sound like so you can sound like them, too.

LLellecalle, llama

In general, Spanish pronunciation is quite regular. This sound is slightly more open (tongue lower in mouth) and frontal (tongue closer to teeth) than the vowel sound in the American English words jot, poppa, Ana.

Now, try saying it with a Spanish pronunciation (i.e., with emphasis on the vowels): con-fig-ur-able.

SGenerally similar to Englishcasa, s

Even more important, they are also one of the most common speech sounds in the language.

Record the pronunciation of this word in your own voice and play it to listen to how you have pronounced it. Below, I categorize and explain all the major English vowel mispronunciation tendencies.

Halways silent (note that CH is a separate character)hola, hijo

I know many adults are embarrassed about speaking with a foreign intonation.

However, your mouth and throat need to learn how to coordinate in unfamiliar ways to pull off this new task. Intonation is the most characteristic element of an accent. Again, these five tendencies will account for 80% of your pronunciation errors.

This is incorrect because vowel reduction does not occur in Spanish.

Sometimes pronounced as fricative (think Darth Vader), pronounced two ways in English, pronounced only one way in Spanish, in most places, pronounced as Y. For instance, gracias (gra-syas) changes in Castilian dialect (gra-thyas).

You can contribute this audio pronunciation of de to HowToPronounce dictionary.

For example, native speakers of Spanish have a difficult time distinguishing between the English phonemes associated with the letters b and v, because these two letters are associated with the same sound in Spanish.

Mememesa, mam

Rounding does NOT occur in Spanish.

There is definitely some overlap, so the skills youve learned arent useless and some of the muscle memory may even translate well. When this sound. /x/ (dialectical)mujer, ojo Because of this, youll tend to closethese vowels.

In contrast, you make these sounds in Spanish by touching the blade of your tongue (just behind the tip) to this same spot. A word that defines 'from' in Spanish and English means away or opposite form of deactivate. The English version is also rounded, meaning you will curl your lips at the end of the sound.

Persist in saying the English r in your Spanish, and you will NEVER achieve Spanish fluency.

Try replacing the r with an l and only a slight adjustment is needed.

Native speakers do this by touching their lips together for a moment and holding the sound for less time.

Xvaries, but often like KS sound in Englishexcelente, exacto

Vowels sound the same regardless of location in a word.

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Both the B and V are not the same as they are in English.

You may have noticed that the pronunciation of certain sounds differs depending on which country someone is from.

When this sound occurs in English, it glides towards the U vowel forming a diphthong. This sound does indeed exist in some dialects of English, but with limited usage.

The acoustic differences between these sounds is small, but the physiological effects are huge. GHas three sounds: like English H before E or I; like English hard G at beginning of a word before A, O, U or consonant; can be pronounced weaker when in the middle of wordsgato, gente, agua Seems like your pronunciation of de is not correct.

Most of the time, you can replace the trill (rr) with a tap (r) and youll be fine.

As a result, many native speakers will often replace V with B and vice versa.

You've got the pronunciation of de right.

They do not change at all depending on where they are in a word and will always be the same.

//roll, armor Trilled R sound.

If we keep the rhythm and phonemes the same for a phrase, a change in intonation will result in a change in meaning.

Like the sounds of vowels, intonation follows very predictable and orderly rules in Spanish. Spanish pronunciation is about the speech itself, which youll end up speaking if you want to truly learn the language.

Rereseor, fruta We actually replace the T and D sounds with this sound when we talk fast, like in the words butter and better..

Yalmost always like English Y soundy, ya, Yucatn

There is a soft sound and strong sound G. In general, soft (like English H) sound when before E or I (i.e. In other words, the other vowel sounds for a given language are going to occur at some point between these three extremes.

almost always pronounced as English S. Turns into silent TH in Spain.

E vowel in the words hey, bay, say, lay glide up near the I vowel.

For vowel pairs, the same rule applies for each letter in the alphabet.

The challenge will be to rewire the your brain so you can produce sounds for letters that sound different from what youre used to. Note that in the third case, native speakers are actually using the blade of their tongue rather than the tip to create this sound. This sound is more open (tongue lower in mouth) than the vowel sound in the English words.

KOnly in words of foreign origin.whiski

It sounds like the ni in onion. It is just a matter of hearing these patterns and incorporating them into your own speech.

Vowels are created by completely opening the vocal tract and allowing air to flow out unobstructed. For instance, they may pronounce the word vaca (cow) as baca. You will notice that this difference is much slighter than it would be in English. This creates the n-y-ah n-y-oh n-y-eh sound which is common in all words with the letter . Doing this wrong is perhaps the biggest giveaway of whether you have a bad accent.

In general, stress is usually placed in the second-to-last syllable in a word: Tengo, gustan, E-spaa, e-xcur-siones.

You can tell how to pronounce a word from the way its written once you know what sound each letter (or group of letters) represents.

Trills can also occur at beginning of words that start with R. varies, but often like KS sound in English.

Whereas in English we often put emphasis on consonants, in Spanish it is exactly the opposite.

These sounds are short and sweet with no additional vowels added on the end.

o. Listen below and try to imitate my speech. * These letters appear only in words of foreign origin. Ppepap, peso

The pronunciation is different because of the vowel that comes after the letter G. The same idea applies in English with the word going /go..i/. Its common for people to have the tendency to close this vowel (as explained in the next section).

/n/ (blade)antes, banana

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This means that your tongue is lower and further back to the extremes of your mouth. Listen to the audio example between the words two and t.

Yet this is still the most common pronunciation error that English speakers make.

It is not that difficult to process, once you tune your ear to it.

> UUUU!

Note: In some cases, the accent mark is used simply to differentiate between two homonyms (words that sound the same with different meanings) in the written form.

K*kakilo, kiosko

Spanish Alphabet

Tarticulated with blade of tongue (often like TH), especially between vowels and at end of wordtaza, fruta

After mastering the guidelines above, you can read a word almost exactly how its spelled, rather than memorizing seemingly endless rules and their many exceptions (Just think of how differently you pronounce tough, through, and though). Always silent except for when you see the letter c next to it like in the word chocolate.. eeseor, nio

In English, diphthongizing is a fancy word meaning we add an additional vowel at the end of words as we close our mouths.

All Rights Reserved, {{app['fromLang']['value']}} -> {{app['toLang']['value']}}, Pronunciation of de with 2 audio pronunciations. Both the B and V are not the same as they are in English. As a Spanish learner, you may have a strong tendency as an English speaker to replace the Spanish // with the English // sound.

Ggejugo, general

Use the chart below to see how these sounds appear in both English and Spanish speech.

For example, the city of Barcelona in Spain should not be pronounced Barcelon-uh, but with a consistent a sound: Barcelona..

This traditional approach is a learn by eye approach.

This consonant is important to pay attention to in order to sound more authentic.

By the end of the recording, my tongue is moving too fast to make the Dsound, so I am effectively saying &a.

At The Mimic Method, we like to use a learn by ear approach to language learning. Bbebien, beb varieties. On Youtube you can alter the speed of any video (gear icon > Speed), making it perfect for listening to genres like rap and singing along.

They do not change at all depending on where they are in a word and will always be the same. The U vowel has the exact same tongue position as the vowel sound in the English words who, shoe, two, Sue. Rounding does NOT occur in Spanish.

// (dialectical)llamar, pollo, all gente, general).

This means that your tongue is lower and further back to the extremes of your mouth.

As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, we need to ultimately look behind the letters on paper and figure out the actual sound they represent.

Try saying configurable out loud.

This sound is usually rounded in English, meaning you will curl your lips at the end of the sound.

But there are at least 39 phonetic sounds in modern Spanish speech.

For vowel pairs, the same rule applies for each letter in the alphabet.

RRerreperro, carro

with the English // sound.

With vowels, these five tendencies will account for 80% of your pronunciation errors so thats why it is important to review them early on. In Spanish, there is no rounding so your lips should never curl like this. It will seem silly at first, but it will become more natural with practice. This does NOT occur in Spanish (as explained in the next section).

/j/yes/j/llamar, yo, hielo

Remember to keep your E vowel short and crisp. VOften identical to sound in Bvaso, vive Fsame value as in Englishcaf, fruta El Hospital San Juan de Dios del Aljarafe retoma las jornadas presenciales con pacientes tras 19 meses de pandemia.

Eemesa, cine Though you may not remember the experience of learning your first set of sounds, it certainly involved a lot of practice. Sometimes pronounced as fricative (think Darth Vader)hijo, jugo, ojo Soft C turns into silent TH in Spain.

There are two exceptions: Like we said earlier,becoming aware of these nuances is the first step towards fluency.

Use the listbelow to identify the movement vowel pairs in the words for numbers one through ten. And this pattern continues for other similarly spelled words in the dialect.

Msame value as in Englishmesa, mam

Trills can also occur at beginning of words that start with R.perro, carro, ratn, seor

The reason why there are more sounds than letters is that these sounds are used for the same combination of letters or syllables when spelled at different places in words. This does NOT happen in Spanish.

/g/go, give/g/gato, tengo

Use the speech recognition technology built into your phone in the.

The challenge will be to rewire the your brain so you can produce sounds for letters that sound different from what youre used to. LetterShort DescriptionIn words

It sounds like a K (hard) next to the vowels A, O and U (banco, capital).

This audio compares the English and Spanish Pronunciation of the name Ana. Mimic my pronunciation so that you can feel the difference.

The three vowel sounds on this page are the extremes in Vowel Height and Backness. The letter S is more or less the same as you would pronounce in English. When spoken at normal speeds, some movement vowel pairs will be spoken so that they will blend together to make a W sound.

In fact, some studies say that this process begins in the womb with exposure to the acoustics of a mothers speech.

But it can help you a great deal by starting on the nearest English vowel and going in the right direction from there.

Lpronounced two ways in English, pronounced only one way in Spanishhola, gol, alto

Native speakers do this by touching their lips together for a moment and holding the sound for less time. For example, the first vowel in the word about sounds more like uh-bout. We do the same thing with words like roses (ro-zihs) and manatee (ma-nih-tee).

/v/very

This may seem like minor detail, but it is important because certain fast sound combinations are impossible to make without doing this.

Congrats! If you want to perfect this, try biting your lower lip to while practicing these words.

For instance, they may pronounce the word vaca (cow) as baca. You will notice that this difference is much slighter than it would be in English. The audio compares the English and Spanish pronunciation of the words se and sed. Notice the movement with the English say and said. Mimic my pronunciation so that you can feel the difference.

Like the "nio" sound in English word "Onion. You will need to know how to do this when you get to speaking at faster and faster speeds. The audio compares the English and Spanish pronunciation of the words se and sed. Notice the movement with the English say and said. Mimic my pronunciation so that you can feel the difference.

Iiiba, cita

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They are usually softened in their Spanish pronunciations. This does NOT occur in Spanish (as explained in the next section).

/n/no, never/n/noche, no

In all cases, and A is and A no matter which part of the word it occupies. /b/bat, book/b/bueno, vino The first time I say it slowly and enunciated, the second time I say it quickly and naturally.

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