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The Sounds of Spanish
♦How they are the same…
♦ Nearly half the letters in the Spanish
alphabet make the same sounds as they do
in English.
♦ Your English-speaking brain will say these
correctly without any thought on your part.
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The Sounds of Spanish
♦The “KEY” to good Spanish…
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The Sounds of Spanish
♦ The letter E makes
the sound of “e” like
in “hey.”
♦ It sounds like “eh.”
♦ Say “eh.”
♦ Say café (kah-feh)
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The Sounds of Spanish
♦ The letter I makes
the sound of “i”
like in “ski.”
♦ It sounds like “ee.”
♦ Say “ee.”
♦ Say lápiz
(láh-pees)
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The Sounds of Spanish
♦ The letter O makes the
sound of “o” like in
“go.”
♦ It sounds like “oh.”
♦ Say “oh.”
♦ Say mono
(moh-noh)
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The Sounds of Spanish
♦ The letter U makes
the sound of “oo”
like in “cuckoo.”
♦ It sounds like
“oo.”
♦ Say “oo.”
♦ Say música
(moo-see-kah)
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The Sounds of Spanish
♦The Consonants
♦B/V G H J Ñ Z
♦There are many consonants in Spanish
that look the same as the letters in
English but they sound different.
jardín
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The Sounds of Spanish
♦ The letter Ñ in Spanish
makes the sound of “ny”
like in the word “onion.”
♦ It sounds like “nya.”
♦ It has a tilde over it to
show that it does not
make the regular “n”
sound. Niños= nee-nyohs
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The Sounds of Spanish
♦ The letter “Z” in
Spanish makes the
sound “S” like in
“simple.”
♦ There is no
vibration for the
“Z” sound.
zapato = sah-pah-toh
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The Sounds of Spanish
♦Letter Combinations
♦CH CU GU LL QU RR
Some letter combinations make special
sounds in Spanish that are different than in
English.
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The Sounds of Spanish
♦ In Spanish, if the letter
combination CU is
followed by a vowel it
makes the sound “kw”
like in “quarter.” cuaderno =
kwah-dehr-noh
If CU is followed
by a consonant, it
sounds like “koo” as cucharas =
in cuckoo. koo-chah-rahs
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The Sounds of Spanish
♦ In Spanish, if the letter
combination GU is
followed by an “a” it
makes the sound “gw”
guantes =
like in “guacamole.”
gwahn-tehs
♦If GU is followed
by a consonant or
one of the other
vowels, it makes guitarra =
the hard G sound. gee-tahr-rrah
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The Sounds of Spanish
♦ In Spanish, the letters
“LL” together make a
sound like the “y” in
“yam.”
♦ “LL” sounds like “ya.”
♦ It does not sound like
the English “L.”
♦ “Llama” is pronounced
“yah-mah.” llama
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The Sounds of Spanish
♦ In Spanish, the letter
combination QU
makes the sound “k”
as in “king.”
queso = keh-soh
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The Sounds of Spanish
♦ In Spanish, the letter
combination RR is a trilled
“r” sound.
♦ The sound is trilled with the
tip of the tongue against the
roof of the mouth.
perro =
pehr-rroh
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The Sounds of Spanish
♦Pronunciation guidelines
♦ Use the guides on the next page to sound
out words in Spanish.
♦ Write the Spanish word with these guides to
make sure you are pronouncing it correctly.
♦ When you read the word using these guides,
your English-speaking brain will make the
correct sounds for the Spanish words.
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A = ah E=eh I= ee O = oh U = oo
B=B G G H = no J=H
V=B a, o = G e, I = H sound
Ñ = ny Z=S CH=ch CU GU
vowel = A = gwa
kw
LL = y QU = K RR = rrr = means means
sounds followed
like by
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The Sounds of Spanish
♦ Casa (kah-sah) -house ♦ Gente (hehn-the) -people
♦ Café (kah-feh) -coffee ♦ Hombre (ohm-breh) -man
♦ Lápiz (lah-pees) -pencil ♦ Jardín (hahr-deen) -garden
♦ Mono (moh-noh) -monkey ♦ Niños (nee-nyohs) -kids
♦ Música (moo-see-cah) ♦ Zapato (sah-pah-toh) -shoe
-music ♦ Chile (chee-leh) -pepper
♦ Boca (boh-cah) -mouth ♦ Cuaderno (kwah-dehr-noh)
♦ Vaca (bah-cah) -cow -notebook
♦ Gato (gah-toh) -cat ♦ Guantes (gwahn-tehs) -gloves
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