Spanish Latin American Pronunciation Video 1: The Spanish Consonants 

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Marvin Jones Me too

Can I say todo like totho and toro like todo?

***** I don't speak Spanish, but I do speak American English. Judging by that, and what I know about Spanish phonology, that seems correct to me.

ThePassingVoid yep

You mean 'did' exist.

Necesito*, fonémicos*, inglés*.. tienes que aprender la ortografía correcta del español.

Es bueno conocer primero lo correspondiente al propio idioma nativo de uno, para después asimilar mejor lo de otro idioma, para, por ejemplo, hacer asociaciones, etc.

Well, you're name is Language Learner, so I assume you're gonna be learning more languages in the future. Understanding the IPA and especially how it works can really give you an advantage in pronunciation and accent reduction. The IPA is, basically, a list of symbols that represent sounds. The symbols are mostly taken from the Latin and Greek alphabets, and so might not be perfectly accessible, especially when you get to stuff like [c] and [θ]. *But here's the thing: you can learn the names of the parts of your mouth and how sounds are produced by them.* If you look at an IPA consonant chart, you can see what they call "Places of Articulation" along the top, and "Manners of Articulation" along the left side. If you compare sounds on the chart and take note of what they have in common and what they don't, you can get a good understanding of the IPA symbols and their meaning. If you're having trouble memorizing all of this information, I'm afraid I don't have much to offer beyond saying that if you see a symbol you're unsure of, there's no shame in looking it up and reading it's name to help understand the sound it makes. Also, Wikipedia offers sound files of some people saying a lot of consonants and a few vowels, you can find the recording on the Wikipedia article for the respective sound. Or just look up "IPA chart with sound". Also, if you're confused about the articulation of any consonant, you can paste it into RU-vid and hopefully find a video of someone saying it, with their tongue highlighted via some magic technology. *Good luck!*

+rzeka Thank you for the tips!

+Language Learner It takes work but you can explore IPA and the tongue positions at a great interactive website from the University of Iowa soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu/english/english.html in English or soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu/spanish/spanish.html in Spanish.

+Donna Daulton thank you for the links!

+Language Learner Your welcome! I think the pictures of the mouth in motion along with the explanation is the best. I do have to warn you, on the English site, the pronunciations which accompany the drawing are not always the best but the pronunciations with the video of the actual speaker are great. Not knowing Spanish, I don't know about the accuracy of the pronunciations. Understanding the phonemes and the IPS is good idea if you want to hear and learn a language. I would recommend beginning with your native language. I hope this helps.

+tico4612 Es que en America ustedes tienen al menos 5 variedades de español, tan distintas como pueda serlo el español de España. Los gringos creen que existe el español latino y que en el DF hablan como en Buenos Aires o en Lima

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La descripción es precisa su acento es un poco extraño.

Do you think that these minor issues might correct thru exposure and imitation?

There's a seperate video for that.

Yes it does exist, it's an alophone /dezde/ /mizmo/

However it's perceived as a variation of an S, Spanish speakers can't distinguish them and can't really pronounce /z/ separadamente

​@@compulsivecommenter990 i love how you forgot english separetely and used separadamente because you were talking about spanish

@@AnaPaula-sc7xy That was totally random, only multilinguals can relate.😂😂

@@compulsivecommenter990 YES lol I only noticed a minute after I read it because it was so natural to me