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Phonetic Alphabet Learning Spanish Part 3: Regional Variations
Spanish, as with any other language suffers regional variation and changes dialect. Spanish is spoken as a primary language in more than 20 countries around the world, most of these countries being in the center and the continents of America South, but the mother tongue and the base language for the entire Spanish-speaking world is the national language of Spain, Castilian.
Castilian, although recognized worldwide as Spanish is the regional language of the area of Castile in Spain and Madrid is the capital. Madrid is also the financial and administrative center of Spain, and the capital of the country, so it is understandable that administrative decision makers at the time decided to Castilian as the national language with little consideration other regional languages of Spain.
It is understandable that there is some outrage from the other regions of Spain, because they feel that Castilian has been forced on them. Spain is a country where people fiercely defends many different regional identities of the Basques in northern Spain, through the region Catalan-speaking Barcelona and then through the Valencian-speaking province "Comunitat Valenciana" before reaching Spain. For your information Valencia has a population of over five million people in the east coast of Spain and the first language taught in public schools is Valencia Castilian no!
However, this brief transgression on the different Spanish language, while interesting, keeps us from talking about the different pronunciations Spanish. So I will start with the Spanish "lisp." The lisping "pronunciation of" z "and" c "before" e " or "i" is common in Castilian Spanish, which as mentioned above is the base of Spanish language adopted, however when you visit certain parts of Spain and in many parts of South America, the letters "z" and "c" before "e" or "i", take on a more English "s" sound.
Another common pronunciation is heard is the "v" as a "b", for example, the cow (the cow) is pronounced [lah baka] this is perfectly acceptable, and when using audio materials in Spanish is heard this pronunciation used throughout, whether in Latin America or Spain.
Two are to avoid pronouncing the "final d" as "th" as in the English word "myth" for example, "Storm la "(the storm), that it would decide] Allah [tem-pes-tanha other modification with the letter" d "is when it appears in the middle of a word like" mother " (Mother). This is also pronounced like "th", but like the English word "then", so that it would decide mother] [Thray of mah "instead of [] mah car," but stated that these pronunciations are best avoided.
Finally, the letter "ll" is pronounced in several ways. "LI" is usually pronounced as [l '] and as in "millions", but, as mentioned in Part 3, the "l" sound is dropped in some parts of Spain and South America what the word for butter, "butter" is pronounced [mant-ay-kee-ya].
This covers approximately ratings other than that is likely to find although there will be many more regional differences that are best left for later in their studies. All of the pronunciation issues treated here are much easier to understand the Spanish language using audio software.
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