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Pronunciation

Written by qualified Spanish expert Inma Sánchez BA
Last updated: 2014-11-25

Sometimes words follow special pronuncation rules that are not apparent from their spelling.

Pronunciation

Ceceo Pronouncing s as soft c/z (0 lessons)
Diéresis Dieresis (0 lessons)
Distinción, Seseo and Ceceo Standard pronunciation of s, soft c and z plus variants "seseo" and "ceceo" (0 lessons)
Glottal Stop (0 lessons)
Highly unphonetic (0 lessons)
Mute ending (0 lessons)
Mute first consonant (0 lessons)
Omisión de la letra d en español colloquial Sometimes the letter d is omitted in colloquial Spanish (0 lessons)
Palabras agudas Words with an accent on the last syllable (3 lessons)
Palabras esdrújulas Words that have an accent on the antepenultimate syllable (0 lessons)
Palabras graves o llanas Words that have an accent on the penultimate sylable (0 lessons)
Palabras sobresdrújulas Words that have an accent on any syllable before the antepenultimate syllable (0 lessons)
Seseo Pronouncing c and z as s (0 lessons)
Tilde diacrítica Acute accent (11 lessons)
Written accents in Spanish The importance of written accents in Spanish (26 lessons)
Yeísmo Pronouncing the Spanish letters ll and y the same way (0 lessons)
Yeísmo rehilado Pronunciation of y and ll in Argentina and Uruguay (0 lessons)
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