Bienvenido o bienvenida, my dear beginner! In this podcast, we are going to face with a new problematic sound in Spanish. And, again, it happens because of this two troublemaker vowels «E» and «I». We go back again to SESEO. As you listened to in the podcast 23 with the consonant «G», the consonant «C» […]
Spanish aspiration (ep. 25)
Bienvenido o bienvenida, my dear beginner! In the previous podcast, you heard one of the most difficult sounds in Spanish: the Spanish velarization sound /X/ that you must pronounced everytime that you find a word written with «J» (jota, like, for example: JAMÓN, EJEMPLO, JIRAFA, JOTA, JUGAR) or with G+E or plus +I, for example […]
Problematic Spanish sounds and letters (III): «G» and «J» (Ep. 24)
Bienvenido o bienvenida, my dear beginner! In the previous podcast, I told you what happen when «G» meets with «E» and «I». I told you that you must pronounce this sonud as velarization /X/ and not as an English /G/ because this is the sound that you will find with the rest of the vowels. […]
Problematic Spanish sounds and letters (II): Why «G» does not get well with «E/I» (ep. 23)
Bienvenido o bienvenida, my dear beginner! We continue with more problematic Spanish sounds and letters. In this third podcast about orthography and pronunciation problematic letters, we are going to see how vowels «E» and «I» can make pronunciation troubles when combines with some consonants. In the next podcasts I will tell you which consonants are […]
Problematic Spanish sounds and letters: /B/ and /V/ (Ep. 22)
Bienvenido o bienvenida, my dear beginner! Today we are going to talk about Problematic Spanish sounds. We are going to begin with a serie of podcasts about varieties and particularities between pronunciation and ortography in Spanish. And we are going to begin, with an easy one: vamos a empezar con una fácil: the distinction between […]
¿Is Spanish pronounced in the same way as is it written? (Ep. 21)
Is it said that Español is written in the same way as it is pronounced, so, es decir, that if you know the basic pronunciation rules of Spanish, you will be able to read perfectly any text. However, eso NO es del todo verdad (it’s not absolutely true). I explain you why in this podcast […]