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    Name of Spanish sound English sound

    the letter of the letter equivalent


    The Spanish letter

    A a padre father

    be grande or bomba bomb


    B
    be larga

    *C
    * The letter C sounds like a "k" when it is
    followed by the vowels a, o and u: casa,
    Cadaver Cadaver
    cosa, cuchara. It is pronounced as an "s" Composicin Composition
    ce
    when it is followed by the vowels i and e: Cementerio Cemetery
    ciudad, cebra. This occurs in English as well: Cigarro Cigar
    carrot, cold and cucumber, but celery and
    city.

    CH che nacho nacho

    *D
    *When D is intervocalic (between two
    vowels) as in the word nada [nothing], or
    when it occurs at the end of a word, like de detective detective
    verdad [truth], D is pronounced like the "th"
    in the English word "they": NAH-thah, ver-
    DATH.

    -- pronounced like
    E e espaol
    the "e" in `egg'.

    F efe fbrica factory

    *G
    * The letter G is hard (like the English G in
    "gate") when it is followed by the vowels a,
    o and u: gato, gordo, gusto. It is soft (like the Gobierno Government
    English 'H') when it is followed by the ge General --pronounced like
    vowels i and e: gimnasio, general. This the English letter "h"
    occurs in English as well although with
    different "g" sounds: game, gone and gulp,
    but gentle and giraffe.

    *H
    * The H is always silent. You might try to
    pretend it is invisible too, when you see
    words with h's. For example, the verb hay is honor (the letter "h"
    pronounced like the English word "eye", not hache honor
    like the horse-food! Alcohol is pronounced
    is always silent)
    "al-col" as if there were no `h' in the
    middle. Don't forget that ch is a separate
    letter that cannot be split.

    1996 Deborah Lemon all rights reserved


    i i polica police

    --pronounced like the


    J jota justicia [justice]
    English letter "h"
    *K
    ka kilmetro kilometer
    *K is a foreign letter and used only in words
    borrowed from other languages.

    L ele legal legal

    --pronounced like the


    LL elle llave [key] English letter "y", as
    in "yahoo"

    M eme madre mother

    N ene nacionalidad nationality

    ee can canyon

    O o votar vote

    P pe pennsula peninsula

    *Q

    *Q never occurs without u, so think of Qu as


    one letter. Qu is always pronounced like a cu qumica Chemistry
    `k'. It never makes the `kw' sound as it does
    in English. Try to visualize a K every time
    you see Qu.

    *r --a 'tap' like the 'd'


    ere pariente [a relative] sound in the English
    *r occurs only within a word. It cannot word 'ladder'
    begin a word.

    * rr
    --a 'trill', extend the
    *Rr is spelled r when beginning a word: rojo erre radio
    'tap'
    [red], but is spelled rr when it occurs within
    a word: pelirrojo [redhead]

    S ese sopa soup

    T te texto text

    1996 Deborah Lemon all rights reserved


    --pronounced like the
    U u uniforme
    English 'u' in 'tutor'
    *V
    *V is pronounced the same as B. The names
    ve chica and be grande mean `little b' and
    `big b' respectively. A common native ve chica/ve
    speaker error is to switch these letters vendaje bandage
    when writing. Do not pronounce this letter
    corta
    like the English letter `v'. Both V and B are
    pronounced like a softened version of the
    English letter `b'.
    *W doble ve or uve
    *W is a foreign letter and used only in Washington Washington
    words borrowed from other languages. doble

    X equis excelente excellent

    Yucatn Yucatan
    Y i griega
    Paraguay Paraguay

    *Z
    *Z occurs only in front of strong vowels (A,
    O, U.) The Z "time-shares" the vowels with
    C. C also has a soft "S" sound in front of the
    weak Vowels (I, E.) Therefore, when the Z is --an 's' sound, as in
    zeta zapatos [shoes]
    placed in a position where it is faced with a 'socks'
    weak vowel, it changes into the letter C. (for
    example, we spell pencil "lpiz" but the
    plural form pencils needs to change the Z to
    C "lpices.")

    1996 Deborah Lemon all rights reserved

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