European consonant pronunciation guide suggestionMaybe there already is one, but a nice reference would be an explanation of the Spain-spanish pronunciations from a Latin American perspective. Because I am hearing the "th" sound in at least three different letters: c, g, and z. I sometimes hear "d" pronounced as "v".
Several letters (g, q, d, and even j) are often pronounced with a rough sound that has no equivalent letter sound, more like a middle eastern language sound.
Others (heard in the listening exercise following this one): T pronounced as d, d as q, and z as j. It's as if the european spanish mushes different letters into one sound, and many letters are pronounced differently depending upon the word.
Maybe there already is one, but a nice reference would be an explanation of the Spain-spanish pronunciations from a Latin American perspective. Because I am hearing the "th" sound in at least three different letters: c, g, and z. I sometimes hear "d" pronounced as "v".
Several letters (g, q, d, and even j) are often pronounced with a rough sound that has no equivalent letter sound, more like a middle eastern language sound.
Others (heard in the listening exercise following this one): T pronounced as d, d as q, and z as j. It's as if the european spanish mushes different letters into one sound, and many letters are pronounced differently depending upon the word.
Hi,
I completed a test today on the above topic. The sentence included the word 'cuidálo' but I cannot find it in my dictionary or the online dictionary I use.
I assume it means to treat or take care of.
Gracias.
Colin
may i check if both situations mean the same thing?
I will speak to her when she gets home.
because i do not know when will she get home so i will use subjunctive.
How about if i DO know when she will get home and i am referring to the future time when she gets home, say maybe 9pm, is this still using subjunctive? although i do know the time, we are speaking of a non general situation that is happening in the future. Does this trigger the subjunctive too?
Thanks
I was marked wrong for using “habían” when the sentence was something like “habían muchos mensajes …”. If “había” is used for one thing or many things when would you use “habían”? It sounds more natural to say “habían muchos mensajes …”
Hola Inma,
Is there a reason why the construction “llegar a conocerse” doesn’t work in this context?
I felt that the text “get to know each other” required something that would capture the process over time [llegar a], rather than simply the reflexive verb [conocerse], or is it simpler than that? Saludos. John
Does “¿Dónde estarán?” mean both “where will they be?” and “where might they be?” ?
I would think there would be different ways to express the two different meanings in Spanish.
I'm new. I'm a beginner and wish to learn Castilian Spanish (including the pronunciation). I just took the first lesson (above). It has "confirm" buttons after all the lines, but they all lead to an error message. And I took the "test" but it was only two questions. What is going on? Seriously, a test with only two questions? And what are the non-functional "confirm" buttons even for? Oh, and the pronunciation does NOT use Castilian Spanish in the examples where I paid attention for that.
My quiz included the example: 'Éramos nosotros los que llamamos a la puerta.'
Why is the pronoun positioned after the conjugated verb in this case?
Another explanation I have seen tells that when the pronoun is part of a phrase within brackets we should be using el que etc rather than just que. I have fed the sentence into the respected SpanishChecker with both alternatives and neither was identified as wrong.
Can I use both por and con el ruido. Is there any difference between them?
Can I use mi pierna? In other lessor it was siad that it should ne la pierna. When can I use pronoun with body?
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