Monday, July 5, 2021

Pronounciation

The second part of today's homework was to explore Pronunciation in Spanish. Our instructor suggested two videos both from Ana Padilla with Butterfly Spanish. I ended up watching her whole series on the Spanish alphabet, because why wouldn't I do that on a lazy holiday Monday. 

Be forewarned, I'm about to get super geeky. The one I found really interesting was how to pronounce the letters LL and  Y. She explained the LL sound as: between the English sounds for J (ch) + Y (io).

The technical term was fricativas palatales sordas, which include LL, RR, Ñ and CH. Technical term aside, you put your whole tongue (not just the tip) up against your palate and make the english JY (ch-io) sound. 


Plus she's just fun to watch! She makes me laugh 😄😄

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