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Old April 11, 2013, 11:44 AM
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I agree with AdA, and what she says is consistent with what I was taught in a class on Spanish pronounciation when I was in college. In ordinary everyday speech most native speakers elide vowels across word boundaries, and the more casual the speech the more types of sounds might be elided in more circumstances. The more slowly and and carefully one speaks, the more likely one is to give each vowel its full sound, so that "que va a hacer" would have one very long 'a' that last 2 to 3 times longer than a single occurrence. One piece of advice: native speakers of English typically try to separate each vowel by using a glottal stop (a distinct ending and restarting of sound) between each pair: native speakers of Spanish do not normally use this sound; they merely stretch the time that the sound lasts.
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