I'm hoping someone can correct Spanish? or give me advice

[whooshuvula]

¡Hola!
I hope everyone is doing well today.
Could someone correct my Spanish or give me some advice? Feel free to be brutal, jaja.

This video is me doing a Spanish exercise I found online. The instructions were: 1) Say "hola (hello). 2) Say my name. 3) Spell my name. 4) Use a phrase, and say goodbye.

I would appreciate any general advice, or pointers on where my pronunciation is off. That way, I'll know what to focus on. practice.

[Rusty]

In general, I noticed you're using English vowel sounds and English consonants. Spanish vowels are pure (and there are only five), unlike the twenty vowel sounds we use in English. The American English 'r' is unique in the world. It can't be used in Spanish.

Let's examine the word 'no', common to both English and Spanish.
The vowel in English is said using two vowel sounds, while the Spanish vowel is simply [o]. (In the previous sentence, I used the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) representation for the Spanish vowel sound. The trailing English vowel representation doesn't display correctly.) The consonant 'n' is said the same in both languages.

Now let's have a look at the English word Panama. We use three different vowel sounds for the 'a', while Spanish uses only one sound. The Spanish name for the country is Panamá, which places the word emphasis on the last syllable, whereas we emphasize the first syllable in the English name for the country.

If you use the pure vowel sounds in Spanish, they'll become constant friends (because they're constant).

Your final greeting in the video is incorrect. Perhaps you meant «Mucho gusto».

[whooshuvula]

Thank you! Yea i meant mucho gusto. After recording a few times I think I mixed up muchas gracias and mucho gusto.

It's good to know where I need to practice my sounds and where to target my practice. Thank you!

Everything you said seems to be a constant issue for me.

After reading your reply, I think over the next few months I'm going to focus more on the Spanish "O", "A", and ""R" sound's. I'll try to get them down pat.

Oddly I never used to have been able to pronounce any "r" sounds (English or Spanish) but I've been practicing it a lot lately. And from your response it sounds like I might now have an English "r". If so that's an improvement for me! But I'm going to try to mimic native Spanish youtuber's by recording and listening to my own voice, and there videos back to back. In an effort to attempt to change my pronunciation. I think that might help my Spanish "r".

I agree that I have a tendency to taper the "O" sound like we do in English. I have been trying to practice the solid short Spanish "O". But It now sounds like I need more practice.

Thank you again. In a few months I'll repost another video of me saying the same thing to see if I had any improvement.