Pronunciación

[valleymist]

Tratar de aprender las diferencias en la pronunciación entre español latinoamericano y europeo. (I need help correcting this sentence too)

I bought a computer program to learn Spanish then realized it was European Spanish but I originally wanted to start with Latin American. I decided to stick with the program I have and also bought a book with exercises. I would like to know the differences in pronunciation.

So far I noticed in the book;

Latin America - in c + e, i; the "c" is pronounced as "s" instead of "th"
"ll" is pronounced as "y"
z is pronounced as "s"

Are those the major differences? What about jeuogo (the book pronounces it with the phonetics khweh-go) or gigante (khee-gahn-teh)? Are these correct?

[bobjenkins]

Escrito originalmente por valleymist

Tratar de aprender las diferencias en la pronunciación entre español latinoamericano y europeo. (I need help correcting this sentence too)

I bought a computer program to learn Spanish then realized it was European Spanish but I originally wanted to start with Latin American. I decided to stick with the program I have and also bought a book with exercises. I would like to know the differences in pronunciation.

So far I noticed in the book;

Latin America - in c + e, i; the "c" is pronounced as "s" instead of "th"
"ll" is pronounced as "y"
z is pronounced as "s"

Are those the major differences? What about jeuogo (the book pronounces it with the phonetics khweh-go) or gigante (khee-gahn-teh)? Are these correct?

Querría añadir que en Argentina pronuncian LL como "sh"

Me llamo
/meh/ shamo/

La principia diferencia entre ambos es que en España se usan vosotros, no estoy seguro de las diferencias de la pronunciación.

Trato de aprender las diferencias en la pronunciación entre español latinoamericano y europeo.

Quizá puedes decir

Trato de aprender/Quisiera saber las diferencias entre cómo las palabras (españolas) son pronunciadas por los Españoles y los Latinoamericanos

[chileno]

Escrito originalmente por bobjenkins

Querría añadir que en Argentina pronuncian LL como "sh"

Me llamo
/meh/ shamo/

La principia diferencia entre ambos es que en España se usan vosotros, no estoy seguro de las diferencias de la pronunciación.

Quizá puedes decir

Trato de aprender/Quisiera saber las diferencias entre cómo las palabras (españolas) son pronunciadas por los Españoles y los Latinoamericanos

/meh/ shahmo/

A little correction on your pronunciation.

[brute]

Escrito originalmente por chileno

/meh/ shahmo/

A little correction on your pronunciation.

Esta prononciación me parece como "chamo-me" en el portugués.

[bobjenkins]

Escrito originalmente por chileno

/meh/ shahmo/

A little correction on your pronunciation.

Gracias

[Caballero]

Escrito originalmente por chileno

/meh/ shahmo/

A little correction on your pronunciation.

Actually, because he is Canadian, "a" might be a better fauxnetic transcription than "ah". The reason is that in Canada (as well as parts of the US), there is a vowel shift that was triggered by the merger of the vowel in the words:
Bother - Father - Cot - Caught

Since the vowels merged, there is no longer a distinction between "ah" and "aw"--they are exactly identical. * Over the last hundred years or so, the vowel (which was originally closer to the "ah" vowel in Cot) is now approaching the original "aw" vowel in Caught. It is also pronounced very back in the mouth. So it is quite different from the vowel /a/ found in Spanish. Because of this merger, for the last 20 or so years, the "a" vowel /æ/ in IPA found in words such as Cat, is now approaching /a/, especially for younger, middle-class speakers. So, because of that "shamo" might in some ways be a better fauxnetic transcription than "shahmo", which would be pronounced with a very back and rounded "aw" sound by a person with the Canadian vowel shift and Cot/Caught merger.

See the Wikipedia article on the Canadian shift for more information.

*some people from the US still retain the distinction, particularily in much of the Midwest, South, and parts of the East coast, and actually pronounce as well as perceive a different between "ah" and "aw", which can be very diffult for merged speakers to even hear any difference at all, especially when pronounced by Midwesterners. Southerners and East coasters often have a much less subtle distinction in those vowels.

Nobody realiced of pronounce the sound (th) he pronounced the sound (f). Nobody realiced of this trick and he became into the most important speaker of his time.

Very interesting. Is that really true? Nobody could tell the difference?

[ookami]

/yamo /shamo for me is fine, it's not a too large sound. (it's like the shi/sha/sho of japanese)

Hmm diferences...

Oh... here we don't respect as much as in europe the "z"... (definetely is like an "s")

Then, the main diference is about the words that are frequently use and some acents - tones.

[chileno]

Escrito originalmente por ookami

/yamo /shamo for me is fine, it's not a too large sound. (it's like the shi/sha/sho of japanese)

Hmm diferences...

Oh... here we don't respect as much as in europe the "z"... (definetely is like an "s")

Then, the main diference is about the words that are frequently use and some acents - tones.

Hi:

yamo in English would be pronounced as iamo.

Most latins and others will pronounce you as YU and it should IÚ.

YU is the pronunciation of JEW and it means judío,a

[ookami]

Escrito originalmente por chileno

Hi:

yamo in English would be pronounced as iamo.

Most latins and others will pronounce you as YU and it should IÚ.

YU is the pronunciation of JEW and it means judío,a

I see where it goes, thanks chileno.

[Apalánter]

Escrito originalmente por chileno

Hi:

yamo in English would be pronounced as iamo.

Most latins and others will pronounce you as YU and it should IÚ.

YU is the pronunciation of JEW and it means judío,a

Interesting...