Speaking like a native, that's the ultimate goal right? Pronunciation plays a big part! Here, everything in my blog that touches on that.
This is a practice to improve your listening skills, challenge your vocabulary and discover some expressions. All of the questions are in Spanish and will be answered in Spanish as well if possible. Are you up for it? »
When we talk, we tend to link words achieving a flow as we talk faster Being aware of this and trying to implement it is one way to sound more natural and fluent in a language. Vowels together »
I divided the exercise in three categories. The first one is catered to beginners but students of all levels can do it. If you have intermediate or advanced level you can go ahead and do sections two and »
What is accent and what is tilde Every language have emphasis in their words: Ex: In "beautiful", the syllable "beau-" has more emphasis than the other ones. You can say each syllable louder than the other ones and »
The changing "G" When a "g" is before an "e" or an "i", the sound is of a strong English "h". Ex: Genial (great) - Sounds like "he-nial" Gigante (giant) - Sounds like "hee - gan-teh" When a »
¡Hola hola! Today I wanted you to take 20-25min to practice your Spanish and get a little bit familiar with the pronunciation in Andalucía, in the South of Spain (Sevilla, Málaga, Marbella, Granada...). This task is based on »
If you are familiar with the basic rules for accentuation you know what a tilde is. If you don’t know, a “tilde” is the visual representation of the accent, found always on top of a vowel. Every »
You might have noticed that in Spanish we don’t have just one question mark, but two. We use an inverted question mark at the beginning of the sentence, and the same happens with the exclamation mark. ¡Wow, »
If you read the previous post you know why the “c” is pronounced in two different way The “g” follows the exact same pattern. Let me refresh it for you. It all depends on which vowels are next. »
Have you ever wondered why you say “cine” (thee neh) but “casa” (kah sah)? Well, this is why. The letter “c” behaves in a different way depending on which other letters are around. When there’s an “I” »
