help needed with Spanish pronunciation.
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help needed with Spanish pronunciation.
I am confused over the pronunciation of the double L, as in billete, botella etc. I thought it was pronounced as a Y sound , ie boteya. However an on line course I am using pronounces it as a J sound, ie boteja. Is this a South American thing or is it like this in mainland Spain or more to the point in the Valencia region?
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Re: help needed with Spanish pronunciation.
I am confused over the pronunciation of the double L, as in billete, botella etc. I thought it was pronounced as a Y sound , ie boteya. However an on line course I am using pronounces it as a J sound, ie boteja. Is this a South American thing or is it like this in mainland Spain or more to the point in the Valencia region?
in some countries it is even a 'tch' - llueve comes out as 'tchooweveh'
here it is indeed more like the english 'y' sound
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Re: help needed with Spanish pronunciation.
Just as a matter of interest, how is the "c" pronounced before an e or i? And where? (e.g. Barthelona or Barsselona?)
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personally I pronouce it 'th' - I was taught that way, but I had an intercambio for a while with a lady who pronounced it 's'
I can't remember where she was from
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Re: help needed with Spanish pronunciation.
Yes that is the pronunciation on the course I'm using. Like a short J. The reason I ask is that I have heard people in Javea pronounce it that way and wondered if perhaps it is the way it is pronounced in Valenciano/Catalan
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there is no 'll' in valenciano - the 'x' is pronounced 'sh' in valenciano though
so Xabia is pronounced 'shabia' in valenciano
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It sounds like you were learning argentinian Spanish. Very typical is the "j" sound. So calle (caye" becomes almost a caje sound")
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Though even within Argentina the 'hardness' of the ll in, to use that example, varies. Memory fails me but I think Buenos Aires & far west are harder, more like cazhe, or the j in jeremy. Elsewhere more like the sh in share. Andaluz is similarly hard, though inevitably not everywhere!
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Though even within Argentina the 'hardness' of the ll in, to use that example, varies. Memory fails me but I think Buenos Aires & far west are harder, more like cazhe, or the j in jeremy. Elsewhere more like the sh in share. Andaluz is similarly hard, though inevitably not everywhere!
they both used a really hard 'tch' sound
I also know a Venezuelan who has pretty much the same pronunciation
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When you consider the accent variants in the UK, and then of course america, australia etc.. I guess its no different in Spain, its Islands and South America etc
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Curiously enough I was wondering this morning, before I saw this thread.....
Doesn't paella originate from Valencia? If so, is paella a translation into castellano? What's the valencian for paella and how is it pronounced?
Also the name Lluis, with 2 Ls - is a catalan spelling of Luis, isn't it? As far as I know, Valencian is very very similar to catalan, but I may be assuming too much. Have never been in either place.
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Curiously enough I was wondering this morning, before I saw this thread.....
Doesn't paella originate from Valencia? If so, is paella a translation into castellano? What's the valencian for paella and how is it pronounced?
Also the name Lluis, with 2 Ls - is a catalan spelling of Luis, isn't it? As far as I know, Valencian is very very similar to catalan, but I may be assuming too much. Have never been in either place.
Doesn't paella originate from Valencia? If so, is paella a translation into castellano? What's the valencian for paella and how is it pronounced?
Also the name Lluis, with 2 Ls - is a catalan spelling of Luis, isn't it? As far as I know, Valencian is very very similar to catalan, but I may be assuming too much. Have never been in either place.
btw - when I said in an earlier post that there is no 'll' in Valenciano, I meant really that it doesn't make quite the same 'y' sound, so maybe we should be pronouncing 'paeya' as 'paelya'
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Thank you
So ll in valenciano (and catalan?) is -ly- ?
So ll in valenciano (and catalan?) is -ly- ?
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Re: help needed with Spanish pronunciation.
Could do with all our spanish members to help out