A Ahhh. ay I e day i ee o oh u oo ca,co,cu c=k.
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Transcript of A Ahhh. ay I e day i ee o oh u oo ca,co,cu c=k.
aAhhh
ayI
eday
iee
ooh
uoo
ca,co,cuc=k
cuaquack.
ce,cic=th or s
h
ga, go, gugah, go, goo
guagwah
gue, gui(hard g sound)
gü(w…)
ge, gihey, he (scratchy h sound)
jh (scratchy)
lly as in yet
ñnya
quk
rrrrrrrrrrrrr
vb
zth or s
u-va
me-le-na
bo-ni-ta
he-re-dar
de
guerra
güera
me
mi
lluvia
gitano
gel
hay
¿Cuándo?
¿Cuál?
¿Qué?
There are five vowels in Spanish, a, e, i, o, and u. Of these, a, e, and o are considered strong vowels, i, and u, are considered weak vowels.
Each strong vowel in a word forms its own syllable. So a combination of two strong vowels forms two syllables. A combination of two vowels in which at least one is weak forms one syllable. This is called a diphthong.
A-ni-mal has three syllables. Bai-le has two syllables, since the first syllable is a
combination of a strong vowel and a weak vowel. Fui has only one syllable, since the two vowels are both weak. Bi-blio-te-ca has four syllables, since the second cluster of
vowels consists of a weak one and a strong one. Ca-os has two syllables, since the two vowels are both strong.
For more practice visit: http://www.austincc.edu/jevatt/accents/syllables.html
1. Words ending in a vowel, -n, or -s are stressed on the next to the last (penultimate)
syllable:
nada compro toallana-da com-pro to-a-lla
origen esta conmemorativoo-ri-gen es-ta con-mem-o-ra-ti-vo
zapatos tele institutoza-pa-tos te-le in-sti-tu-to
2. Words ending in any consonant except -n or -s are stressed on the last syllable:
doctor realdoc - tor re-al
ciudad ciu - dad
comerco - mer
When rules #1 and #2 above are not followed, a written accent is used:
está hablábamos es-tá ha-blá-ba-mos
invitaciónin-vi-ta-ción
vivíavi-vía
Written accents are also used to differentiate between words that are pronounced the
same but have different meanings:
si - ifsí - yes
mi - mymí - me
el - theél - he
tu - yourtú - you
All interrogative (question) words have a written accent to signal that someone is asking a question and not just making a
statement.¿Cómo? How/What?
¿Cuál(es)? Which (ones)?¿Cuándo? When?¿Cuánto(s)/a(s)? How much/many?¿Dónde? Where?¿Qué? What?¿Quién? Who/whom?¿Por qué? Why?