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How an english speaker hears Spanish Dipthongs
I am a beginner in learning Spanish, and whenever I come across double vowels I get tongue tied. So, I watched a video on youtube about dipthongs and these are the sounds I heard:
These ones are fairly short, with more of an emphasis on the second vowel:
ia >> "ya"
ie >> "yeah" (rhymes with "say")
io >> "yo"
ua >> "wah"
ue >> "whey" (as in the liquid drained from cheese curds)
uo >> "whoa" (rhymes with a "doe", the female deer variety)
These ones take longer to say than the ones above. They also sound like a trombone slide, from one verb sound to the next:
ai >> "I" (rhymes with "bye")
ei >> "eh" (something Fonzie from Happy Days says)
oi >> " 'oy" (something an Australian says in 80s films)
au >> "ow" (rhymes with "wow")
eu >> (no english equivalent. "EW", when faced with something gross, is the wrong initial vowel sound)
ou >> "oh?" (really a pitch change)
These ones, I heard just a substitute of common English words:
iu >> "you"
ui >> "we"
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How an english speaker hears Spanish Dipthongs
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