The way I was taught is a y sound with the tounge touching the ceiling of your mouth at the start
the stress should be on the first syllable in this word
the stress should be on the first syllable in this word
[help] So this Spanish chick has been trying to "teach" me "words" for a lil while now...
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In Puerto Rico it's very rare to hear someone say "frijoles". We call beans "Habichuelas"
It's more like American English vs UK English. Of course there are some variations, there is an ocean in between and each one has evolved for hundred of years.
I worked with Colombians, and I noticed they leaned on the j for certain words. I was corrected many times when saying Medellin.
How do you pronounce "yema" in your Spanish-speaking region? In a single city in Spain (Sevilla), I heard it pronounced two different ways. Using English pronunciation spellings: "jema" and "yema."
p.s. Wasn't expecting OP's question to be so straightforward. Double-hyphens in the thread title threw me off.
p.s. Wasn't expecting OP's question to be so straightforward. Double-hyphens in the thread title threw me off.
More or less, you just need to find a way to make a very slight "l" noise right at the start
Regional and National dialects are a hell of a thing. OP, you're going to have to flip a coin on Yah vs Jah. Personally, I learned it as Yah and in my experience living in various places within the US, Yah is the most commonly used pronunciation. I'd guess it's because Mexican variations of Spanish have had heavy influence throughout the majority of the US. But it could easily be different in areas of the US where say, Carribean Latin influences are heavy, like South Florida and the East Coast in general.
As an aside since I saw mention of these, I was taught that the "c" as an "s" sound was a Castilian influence of Spanish, heard in Spain and parts of South America. Meanwhile the "v" vs "b" sounds tend to vary almost person to person. There's also Vosotros vs. Nosotros vs. Ustedes which can also be quite confusing to a non-native speaker.
As an aside since I saw mention of these, I was taught that the "c" as an "s" sound was a Castilian influence of Spanish, heard in Spain and parts of South America. Meanwhile the "v" vs "b" sounds tend to vary almost person to person. There's also Vosotros vs. Nosotros vs. Ustedes which can also be quite confusing to a non-native speaker.
If we are talking about pronouncing letters I'm not sure typing will suffice but it depends on the word and where it is in the word. By themselves it's-
Y - why
j - Jay
Colombian here (Bogotá)... Pretty sure we say yah-ve (the tongue is more close to the palate) instead of jah-ve.
XD... We miss you /rr/ (hard r) and /LL/...
XD... We miss you /rr/ (hard r) and /LL/...
Dang I'm shocked lol. I'm Manizales and never heard yah-ve from other Colombians. Also it's kinda hard to tell if when you guys say yah-ve you're using the English pronunciation(I am) of the y or not lol. Because, to me at least, in Spanish 'Y' and 'LL' both sound about the same
This. Colombian here (MedellĂn)
OP, when in doubt, alway go to "La Real Academia Española". Here you can see how we as speakers should make the sound.
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Ll has 3 common pronunciations in spanish as people have mentioned here. But spanish is way more variable than that.
For example conjugations are totally different depending on the accent and region, some places use ud/tu, spain uses vosotros, some places uses ud/vos instead.
Another example is the rr sound. Its usually rolled, but in my country is a hard labial sound with no rolling.
For example conjugations are totally different depending on the accent and region, some places use ud/tu, spain uses vosotros, some places uses ud/vos instead.
Another example is the rr sound. Its usually rolled, but in my country is a hard labial sound with no rolling.
That's why I included shortcuts. That's not a different sound. It's just a sound being left off.
I'm talking about a various symbol or phonics rule that only makes one sound in one region and only makes another sound that is formed completely differently in the mouth in another. "y-" and "j-" involve completely different mouth shapes for the same phonics rule (double l). I cannot think of anything in English like that. At least the odd "ch" sound has some relation to "j-"
New England (most notably Southie Boston) accents. The hard R is Rhotic while the Southie accent is Non-Rhotic.
Chowder (hard R) vs. Chowdah (the R isn't just soft but has an H sound)
Hard (hard R) vs Hahd (h sound)
Beer (hard R) vs Beeah (again the H sound)
Park (hard R) vs Pawhk (H sound proceeded with a bit of a w sound)
Then you have the Dipthong element of Southie.
Honest vs awnest
God vs Gawd
etc...
For more really interesting and entertaining information, I highly recommend Wired's Technique Critique series with Erik Singer.
So this is really going to be a language thread now? You disappoint me ERA.
How about: who the hell is this women and why is she coming by your office on a regular basis OP!?
How about: who the hell is this women and why is she coming by your office on a regular basis OP!?
It's pronounced this way:
I guess jah-veh or yah-veh could work since there are words in English that begin with either Ja or Ya that sound the same like yard or Jack for example.
I guess jah-veh or yah-veh could work since there are words in English that begin with either Ja or Ya that sound the same like yard or Jack for example.
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