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The Sounds of Spanish How they are the same How they are different The KEY to good

Spanish The vowels The consonants Letter combinations Pronunciation guidelines

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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 doin English. Your English-speaking brain will say these

correctly without any thought on your part. Thats good news!!

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The Sounds of Spanish How they are different There are three kinds of letters which

make different sounds in Spanish. Vowels Consonants Letter combinations

These are easy to learn!!

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The Sounds of Spanish The KEY to good Spanish

Learn the vowel sounds first. Then add the consonants in. Watch for letter combination sounds.

Dont be afraid to try!

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The Sounds of Spanish The Vowels

Even though the vowels are the

same letters as in English, theymake different sounds inSpanish.

A E I O U

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The Sounds of Spanish The letter A makesthe sound of a like

in father. It sounds like ah. Say ah

Say casa( kah -sah)

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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 caf (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 lpiz

( lh -pees)

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The Sounds of Spanish The letter O makes the

sound of o like ingo.

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 oolike in cuckoo.

It sounds likeoo.

Say oo. Say msica( moo -see-kah)

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The Sounds of Spanish The Consonants

B/V G H J Z

These are easy to learn!

There are many consonants in Spanishthat look the same as the letters inEnglish but they sound different.

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The Sounds of Spanish B and V sound enough

alike to be the same inSpanish.

There is no vibration for the V sound.

Make the sound of a soft

b like in boy and useit for both B and V.

boca=boh -ka

vaca=bah -ka

start withthe samesound.

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The Sounds of Spanish The letter G inSpanish makes two

sounds just as it does

in English.

Gato= gah -toh

Gente =hehn -teh

The hard G is the sameas in English. The soft G soundsounds like our letter h in hen.

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The Sounds of Spanish The letter H is silent in

Spanish.

It makes no sound. It is like the letter h inthe English word

hour. Hombre is pronouncedohm -breh. hombre

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The Sounds of Spanish The letter J in Spanish

makes the sound of hlike in hard.

Jardn is pronouncedhahr-deen.

jardn

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The Sounds of Spanish The letter in Spanish

makes the sound of nylike in the word onion.

It sounds like nya. It has atilde over it to

show that it does notmake the regular nsound. Nios= nee -nyohs

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The Sounds of Spanish The letter Z in

Spanish makes the

sound S like insimple. There is no

vibration for theZ sound.

zapato = sah-pah -toh

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The Sounds of Spanish Letter Combinations

CH CU GU LL QU RRSome letter combinations make specialsounds in Spanish that are different than in

English.

Pay attention to these!

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The Sounds of Spanish The letter combination

CH in Spanish soundsthe same as in English.

However, it isconsidered a letter inSpanish and has itsown section in manydictionaries. chile =chee -leh

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The Sounds of Spanish In Spanish, if the letter

combination CU isfollowed by a vowel it

makes the sound kwlike in quarter. cuaderno =kwah-dehr -noh

cucharas =koo-chah -rahs

If CU is followed by a consonant, itsounds like koo asin cuckoo.

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The Sounds of Spanish In Spanish, if the letter

combination GU isfollowed by an a it

makes the sound gwlike in guacamole. guantes =gwahn -tehs

guitarra =gee-tahr- rrah

If GU is followed by a consonant or one of the other vowels, it makesthe hard G sound.

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The Sounds of Spanish In Spanish, the letters

LL together make asound 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 QUmakes the sound kas 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 tomake sure you are pronouncing it correctly.

When you read the word using these guides,your English-speaking brain will make thecorrect sounds for the Spanish words.

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A = ah E=eh I= ee O = oh U = oo

B=BV=B

Ga, o = G

Ge, I = H

H = nosound

J = H

= ny Z = S CH=ch CU vowel =

kw

GUA = gwa

LL = y QU = K RR = rrr = meanssounds

like

meansfollowed by

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The Sounds of Spanish Casa ( kah -sah) - house Caf ( kah -feh) -coffee Lpiz ( lah -pees) -pencil Mono ( moh -noh) -monkey Msica ( moo -see-cah)

-music Boca ( boh -cah) -mouth Vaca ( bah -cah) -cow Gato ( gah -toh) -cat

Gente ( hehn -the) -people Hombre ( ohm -breh) -man Jardn (hahr- deen ) -garden Nios ( nee -nyohs) -kids Zapato (sah- pah -toh) -shoe Chile ( chee -leh) -pepper Cuaderno (kwah- dehr -noh)

-notebook Guantes ( gwahn -tehs) -glove