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| Mthelms Newbie United States Joined 4230 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes | Message 17 of 26 04 May 2013 at 3:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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| Ravi Newbie Netherlands Joined 5397 days ago 2 posts - 4 votes Speaks: Dutch* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 18 of 26 04 May 2013 at 7:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hello, I just stared working on my Spanish accent and I’m using Fonética y fonología españolas by Schwegler (2010). I always thought the consonants were the trickiest in Spanish, but the first part of the book deals with the vowels and I have to say that I can really feel the muscles in my mouth working when doing the vowel exercises. You are, for instance, not supposed to make a glottal stop in front of a vowel (*a*hora), really difficult for Dutch people like myself, but I imagine that the same goes for English speaking people. As to your question, I had some (theoretical) classes on Spanish phonology in university and I'd say that the /n/ and /l/ are most effected by co-articulation, depending on the consonant that follows (f, d/t, p, g, etc). You also have, of course, the /b/, /d/ and /g/ which are also pronounced differently depending on the vowels and consonants before and after them. I guess it would be easy to find some information about this on the internet. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gomorritis Tetraglot Groupie Netherlands Joined 4279 days ago 91 posts - 157 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English, Catalan, French Studies: Greek, German, Dutch | Message 19 of 26 09 May 2013 at 12:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
I found all the words in this thread very easy to pronounce. :P
Interesting... I have been recently trying to help improve Spanish pronunciation to several Greek speakers, and since both Greek vowels and intonation are so similar in relation to Spanish, I mainly focus on correcting the consonants while trying to pay attention to the slightest details. This made me aware for the first time of some phenomena in my own mother tongue, like /b/, /d/ and /g/ sounding different at the beginning of a word or after a consonant than between vowels. However I don't know about this co-articulation effect you talk about (never heard about it before). In which way do /n/ and /l/ change their pronunciation? Maybe If i say "suelto", the "l" sounds shorter than if I say "calmar"? I think it is, but I'm not 100% sure. I tried to find some information on the internet, but it doesn't seem so easy. I have also noticed that Greeks often pronounce words perfectly if they do it slow, but when they try to say them faster, the intensity of consonant sounds starts to decay, and it shouldn't. Is this because they apply Greek co- articulation to Spanish? Edited by Gomorritis on 09 May 2013 at 12:37pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gala Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4551 days ago 229 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 20 of 26 09 May 2013 at 3:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
So did I, but (as I'm sure you know) there's a big difference between pronouncing a word in isolation when in it's in written form in front of you than being able to pronounce it correctly, smoothly and at proper speed when it falls in the middle of a sentence. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6062 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 21 of 26 10 May 2013 at 6:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
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"Jarra roja" is a classic.
I mean, I speak Spanish, but it's very easy to trip over this one, since you have to switch fast between similar sounds. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 22 of 26 10 May 2013 at 10:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
Where are similar sounds here? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| HopeTea Newbie Japan Joined 4272 days ago 37 posts - 41 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 23 of 26 11 May 2013 at 2:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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I've had some trouble with words ending in "dre". Many years ago I learned the word "madre" from my sister who was taking Spanish in high school, and I had no trouble with it. Now though, I feel my pronunciation is a bit strange. Wondering if living in Japan for years could have affected me somehow.
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| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 6062 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 24 of 26 11 May 2013 at 2:05am | IP Logged | |||||
There are different types of "r-ish" sounds from the letters J and R. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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