hola amigos bienvenidos a la clase de español hi friends welcome to the
language tutor I'm so glad you're with us today
today's lesson is one that's gonna really allow you to learn Spanish and
sound like a native speaker yes you can you see in other languages we have to
learn the phonetics and we have to do all kinds of adjustments and it's a
little bit tough in a lot of languages to really start sounding like a native
speaker but guess what in Spanish we don't have that problem you can really
pay attention to what you're saying and you can start something like a native
speaker it's very easy and so today I'm gonna teach you something that's gonna
allow you to lay a really good phonetic foundation okay guys so today what I
want to do is I want to just go through the alphabet with you and I want to
start by the vowel sounds here's the thing and in Spanish 90% of
pronunciation in reading is knowing your vowels and the great part is in English
we have you know an a sounds like aah sometimes it sounds like a sometimes it
sounds like a sometimes we don't have that issue in Spanish and a has one
sound an e has one sound every vowel has one sound so we want to start with you
really quick and just talk about those vowel sounds so the letter A right here
the letter A is always gonna sound like ah it's always gonna be hi
if you ever hear anybody say something with the AA sound you know that is the
letter A it'll never be different now look at this this is letter E it's
pronounced ah yeah it's like eh almost in Spanish ah and the letter I you this
is a little confusing sometimes because the letter AI actually sounds like e
II okay so any time you hear the sound e it's an eye I do want to go ahead and
tell you that a Y we'll talk about what a Y is called in spanish in just a
minute but in context if you're reading you see the letter Y it's pronounced e
also and it means and but other than that pretty much an e sound it's going
to be an AI and don't confuse E and the letter E because remember ascends like a
okay so so far a sounds like aah sounds like a and I sounds like e now we
come to the letter O and I have to tell you something really important about the
letter O because this is where we can sound like non-native speakers okay when
you're saying the letter O in English we do just what I just did we say o and we
pull our lips together we you know they do that rounding and so sometimes we'll
say hey what are we having for dinner tacos and we pull those lips in that
makes us not sound like it's Spanish speaker when we're speaking Spanish so
what we want to do is whore our mouth straight and not move our lips and just
simply say o try it just say oh okay and that's it same thing for you when we say
u we want to pull those lips in don't do it
just say ooh all right so really quick I want to throw the vowels up one by one
and you just say it out loud what you think the vowels intellect oh here comes
the a it's ah you got it now the e a and now the I remember it's different okay
it's e okay good and we're not gonna confuse the E and the E the letter e all
right now the oh oh right and then the U is ooh all right great
now let's go through the whole Spanish alphabet and I will tell you these are
the names of the letters okay so just remember sometimes we we
don't apply our rules in our way of thinking to other languages but I want
to just bring something to mind when we're talking about the alphabet now I'm
telling you what those letters are called
okay so I'm telling you the names of the actual letters so if
you're gonna spell something this would be what you said but again in context we
just use the letters as they're used here's an example of what I'm talking
about you know if we spell the word baby in
English we spell it be a B Y okay this then those are the names of the letters
B a B Y but in context I don't say oh that's a really cute B a B Y right we we
actually use the letters as they're used baby same thing so what I'm telling you
today in the alphabet is the names are the names of the letters okay here we go
so we ought to learn the a which is aa now a lot of the consonants go ahead and
get this a sound in your mind the S sound because a lot of those consonants
are going to use that sound watch what I'm talking about here we go the B is
called bad bad and the C is called say set and the D is called you're probably
guessing it already dad that now I want to go ahead and tell you push that
tongue forward a little bit day-day okay we don't want to put our tongue back
here on that Ridge right behind our teeth that goes up because that's where
we make the English D and that will sound that'll make us sound like a
person trying to speak Spanish so push your tongue forward a little bit and say
de okay and then the e we already learned is a and the F is fa fa now the
G the G is going to be a little different Spanish we'll use it a lot the
same as we do in English in context but the G is actually I always tell my
students how do you remember the letter G is called because you always say this
to him you always say hey all right so the GTA a word with H in it don't say
the H there's no breath sound or anything it's just silent so you just
kind of ignore it but it is part of the spelling so you want to be a good
speller make sure it's there if you're writing it but don't say it the letter H
I like to tell my students to sneeze it it's I check I check
okay now let's go to the I is e and the J is breathed like our English H the
letter is called Jota K is called God we don't use a lot of caves in Spanish but
it is part of the alphabet now I'll get to the h i j k l we get to the L it is
la la but now we've got a double L in Spanish the double L sounds like yeah in
a sentence so this word right here L L AM a s is pronounced yah mas yah mas as
in what's your name vamos a Hamas okay so that Double L
sounds like that so the single L is called la the double L is called a EA
all right let's move on to the M is called you're probably guessing it
already ma ma the N is called n may and may and
again I want to push your tongue forward a little bit because you know that our
English n is back a little bit and so you push your tongue forward a little
bit and say n me now you have the end this in and it's got a little squiggly
snake over the top of it now first of all I won't tell you that
line is called the dealer day either day that's what that little snakey is called
over it but when you have that over the end it changes it from ma to NEA and yeh
alright let's look at a word would that do with that letter in it here's one
tomorrow like I'll see you tomorrow mañana you say my Nana that's the
difference between the single n and in with the tilde the end yeah all right
that brings us to the oh which we've already learned is all now let's talk
about the P really quick the P is simply called pay but what I want you to do
friends is this I want you to put your hand in front of your mouth really quick
and say the English word Huff puff now when you say the word puff
you're gonna feel a puff of air on your hand and that's because when we do the
English Erin it has that breath sound to it so in Spanish what
you want to do is try to take that air away so put your lips together and go
ahead and try it with me you put your lips together like you're gonna say the
letter of P but then just use it as a starting point and just say hey BAE try
to take that air out and once you start feeling a significantly less amount of
air you're getting really close you're gonna sound like a native speaker now
let's talk about the cue the letter Q is called cool and then we get to the R
let's talk about the are really quick the single are like it is in English
does not exist in Spanish actually no are in English sound that sound does not
exist in Spanish so the single R right here we call this a flap and what I want
you to do is take your tongue and put it right behind your teeth there and then
move your tongue back until you feel that ridge going up okay and then that
is where you want your tongue to be when you say the Spanish are and you're gonna
push air through and just flap your tongue you're gonna just kind of flap it
against that part of your mouth and that's why we call it a flap now you a
lot of my students come and they say I can't really do that Spanish are and I
say yes you can because you do it all the time I'm gonna give you an example
right now I want you to say this word in English and I want you to think I want
you to pay attention where your tongue is say the word butter butter
just tried a couple times butter where's your tongue exactly where I just told
you a minute ago right you're doing the Spanish are right there you didn't even
realize it that's the Spanish are all right so
let's put a word on the screen here PE r oh this is the conjunction but I want to
go but I can't okay so bu T in Spanish let's stay together now first of all
we're gonna do that P we're gonna take the air out of it right so take the air
out use the e sound remember it all YZ sound like a all o sound like all we're
not gonna round our lips and we're just simply going to say this not try it all
together battle battle battle there you go take the air out flap your
are and you're sounding like a native speaker
very good now let's talk about the double heart the double r is gonna be
what we call a trio which is a little unit real it like that with your tongue
so PE RR oh now this word we add an R it means dog
let's try this one take the air out do your vowel sounds trill it and say this
Pedro Pedro Pedro there you go I bet you're selling just like a native
speaker already alright let's move on we've talked about the ours now let's
get those last few letters the S you can probably already guess si it's got those
same s sound si the T I want you to take your tongue and put it forward a little
bit and again take the air out of it okay hey hey now the U is ooh we learned
that already now the V and the W I want to tell you about those it depends on
what country you're in really some people learn for the V they'll say that
and some people learn who they it really depends on where you are so it's best to
know that you can either say this that our move a and when you get to another
country you'll pick up on which one they're using okay the W also has two
ways to say it there's Doble woo and dog lay their dog
leg I bet you can guess means double so dog Levay if I can say the double V or
dog level W all right now the X is simply called a keys the Y is called
agree agra agra agra and that literally means the I Greek that's what you're
saying alright and then finally we're at the
end Z is SATA alright so I want you to practice that alphabet just keep going
over it and just keep practicing and saying those letters while you're
driving in your car or whatever you're doing watching TV practice that alphabet
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