Ir + a

[Josh]

When I say voy a hacer or voy a alquilar should I be pronucing the "a"? In essence I'm getting a double "a" sound because of the a followed by the "h" and the "a" in these cases. Is that correct? Thanks.

[wrholt]

In everyday speech many native speakers habitually pronounce sequences of two or more identical vowels as a single instance of that vowel: "voy a hacer" sounds like /boyaser/, "voy a alquilar" sounds like /boyalkilar/, and both "va a ser" and "va a hacer" sound like /baser/. When confusion is possible some speakers may pronounce the vowel for double or triple the length of time, perhaps with a change in intonation from one segment to the next, and most speakers do this when they speak slowly and carefully. Most native speakers typically do not stop the voice between segments as we often do in English by using a glottal stop (the 'catch' that one sometimes hears in words like "bottle" in some regional varieties of English).

[chileno]

Like in "gotta do it", wrholt?

[wrholt]

Originally Posted by chileno

Like in "gotta do it", wrholt?

Slurring together like "gotta do it" or "I'm gonna do it", yup. Or as my high school Spanish teacher wrote on the board on the first day of class in my first-year Spanish class:

"Jeet yet?" "Yeah, jew?"

He said it was English. We said it couldn't be. He said to say it out loud. We did. And we instantly understood it:

"Did you eat yet?" "Yeah, did you?"

[chileno]

sonlasunas y ya comí, cada vez que como muchomincho