Spanish Sounds

This video shows some spanish words, for introduce the sounds of the spaniss letters in words, sound is very clear and it will give you a really good idea to know how to pronounce spanish in a right way. remember that spanish writting has a only one accent (´) called "tilde" the syllab which take the tilde, will be the stronger syllab of the word like fábrica FA-bri-ca

El Abecedario

This is a very interesting video, for help in the learning of the spanish alphabet. take into account thatin this video are mentioned to more letters ch (che) and ll(elle). they were part of the alphabet until some years ago, now words starting with these two letters are included in the "c" and "l" on the dictionaries.

ch sounds like the english ch (chinese)
ll you should pronounced like two "l" at the same time. for a better pronounciation you can practice saying ele-ele as faster as you can, trying to join this two sylabs.. in the case you cannot.. just pronounced it as a "y", there's a lot of native speakers that use to pronounce it as "y".. so don't be worried about it..

ñ is pronounces as an nh, in some regions people pronounce it as "enie" niño (ninio), it could be understood but it's incorrect.

Lesson 1 - The alphabet

El Abecedario



Here is the spanish alphabet (el alfabeto) or normally named as "el abecedario", remember that spanish vowels never change their pronuntiation.

a
b (be)
c (ce) remember that the syllabs ca,co,cu have a k sound (ka,ko,ku) and ce,ci have a
s souns
d (de)
e
f (efe)
g (ge) ga,go,gu, gue,gui are pronounce like the english g as gate. ge and gi are
pronounced as a j(jota =equivalent to the english h)
h (hache) spanish "h" has no sound.
i
j (jota) sound like the english h (hit)
k (ka)
l (ele)
m (eme)
n (ene)
ñ (eñe) has a nh sound
o
p (pe)
q (qu) it could combined just as que (ke) and qui (ki)
r (erre)
s (ese)
t (te)
u
v (ve/ ve labial)
w (be doble/ doble be)
x (equis)
y (ye/ i griega)
z (zeta) it has a "s" sound but with the tongue between the teeth, in latin america speaking there's no difference in the pronountiation of z,s, ce,ci.. all are pronounced with a "s" sound.

For more information about the spanish fonethic, please check the categorie "Fonética"