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I hear a lot of juvias, gajetas and javes around here in Valencia. From both castellano and Valenciano speakers. Also yo said as jo.

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is that an english or spanish sounding 'j'?

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according to my 13 year old who speaks valenciano all day at school


I will listen very carefully to canal 9 later when they do today's weather


today is dilluns!

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as in Lundi, ie like Catalan, sounds like a meld of Spanish & French ? (tho' no doubt a dodgy thing to say with a Catalan or Valenciano around:ohmy:)
The only Catalan word coming to mind is (probably spelled wrong) Mercien, for thank you, not pronounced like Merci, but with Spanish phonetics!

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just watched the news on canal nou

hui/hoy/today, dilluns/lunes/monday - sounds like 'dilyuns' to me


then it's dimarts, dimecres, dijous, divendre, dissabte, diumenge

I can see a smilarity to both French & Spanish

a lot of the english kids reckon valenciano is easier to learn than castellano, because a lot is very similar to english!

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In Catalan and its cousins (Valenciano/Mallorquin etc) there is definitely a double l sound and it is very similar to Castellano.

There are louds of names like that, e.g. the basketball player who just won the European championships is called Sergi Llull. Pronounced almost the same as in Castellano (kind of like yulyi)

Double l is promounced like a ch/j in some Argentinian dialects like others have said. And also I think they speak like this in Canarias

I have some Argentinian friends here in CDS, they said it took them months to work out what Andulicians were saying :)

Also, worth bearing in mind just how many Latin Americans there are in Spain. My parents always say "the Spanish do this or that" and my OH has no idea what they are going on about until we realise that they had seen/heard some Latin Americans. e.g. calling a baby "gordo" is a compliment in some parts of LA, but not in Spain

I had an Auntie who told me people in Barcelona looked like Mexicans! :eek: I guess the waiters at the bars she went to must have been Ecuadorian

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Sort of like shoe.

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Around here its generally more like "jo" which is also my name "jo soy Jo"!

Jo xxx