ok, when i listen to a lot of spanish bands they pronounce their "LL" sound like an english "J" when singing. However, when talking in interviews or something they will pronounce it as an english "Y". Whats up? why do they pronounce it one way when singing and another when not? do people switch pronounciations often? (most of the bands are from mexico, none from spain) thanks!
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Different spanish countries have different pronounciations of this letter.  Either way is correct.  Mexicans and Colombians pronounce it like an english J, the rest of us pronuonce it like an english y and the Argentinians pronounce it like and english "sh".  It all depends on where you come from, how here in the states we have different accents and dialects depending on whether you're from the south or the east or the northeast or the west.
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Hehehehe! So I see that my ignorance prompted you to post a question.  My first language is Spanish and in it, a person from India is called indú. So what I did was a phonetical translation. So as to answer your question, at least in my case I'd say it's ignorance. \n\nThanks for the correction, my friend. :)
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(I'm assuming that by asking how you spell "my name" is Spanish, you want to be able to say "My name is Tiana.")\n\nMy name is... : Mi nombre es...\n\nWhat is your name? (formal): ¿Cuál es su nombre?\n\nWhat is your name? (informal): ¿Cuál es tu nombre?
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Every country pronounces it differently.  Just like with any other word across languages.  I'm in Germany and here we pronounce it "oirro" and in Spain you'll hear everyone pronounce it "ehoodo."
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1. "r" is soft, and "rr" is hard. And yes, they really sound different. (eg  pero = but, perro = dog; caro = expensive, carro = car)\n2. it's pronounce like the "g" in general or like "y" \n3. j always sounds like "h" (a little harder though) in hello.\n   ga, go gu sounds the same as in english. ge, gi sonds like j in spanish, like "h" in english.\n   ch always sounds like ch in cheese.\n4. there aren't any spanish native words beggining with "w", but it sounds like "gu"\n5. therre's no difference in pronunciation between "v" and "b" in spanish, they sound like "b" in english
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Oh! What a hot discussion. When a girl with flawless English explains native English speakers with poor spelling that she is discriminated as Spanish speaker and all... That proves only that we are on the eaves of great ethnic calamities in quite a nearest future. By the way I’d like to remind that Jesus spoke Greek as Greek was common in Palestine at those day, Jewish was a dead language by the time. It’s always easy to start a civil war, it’s difficult to stop it – see Afghanistan!
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I am in the electronics business an have had dealings with many different cultures and languages.  The one thing I have been surprised with is how many people to whom English is a second( or third) language can have such great difficulty pronouncing words in English can perfectly pronoun slang and curse words.  For example, many Koreans I know cannot pronounce F's and P's correctly but can say Mother *ucker perfectly.  Interesting.
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It is pronounced Uventus, like U is read in English. As a joke they call the team Juventus like J is pronounced in English. this name means youth in Latin. It is often said about Juve that plays with a strange line-up of players, with a referee behind 2 forwards.
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It says some words in English too, it does not has much sense and speaks so fast, I can understand why you don't get it:\n\nYo soy Raul, pingüino mas "cool", latino por supuesto 100% español, my brothers ¿Que?, luego me llama una señorita me enciende como flama, la fiesta, baila baila muchachita, mi corazón tiene dinamita !PUM¡, !Exacto¡, you look so beautiful to me babe, es tu papi pingüino.\n\nIn English:\n\nI am Raul, Penguin more cool, Latino of course 100% Spanish, my brothers What?, after a miss call me, ignites to me like flame, the party, dance, dance little girl, my heart has dynamite ¡POOM!, exact!,  you look so beautiful to me babe, is your daddy penguin.\n\nI hope it helps, Spanish is my first language.
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Go by what it sounds like, not what it looks like. M is pronounced "em". And in this case with TLA (three letter acronymn) each letter is pronounced as a word. \n\nWhat gets me is the American English had "an history lesson" before 1940... did they used to drop the "h"????
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If everyone is pronouncing it wrong, then I suspect it is an unusual J sound for Americans.  If it does not sound like the J in jeans, jell-o, or jolly, then you should expect that people will get it wrong.  We do not pronounce the letter J any other way.  Also, the first A could be long or short - the second one is most likely short.  So your name would be pronounced either Jay-nuh or Jaw-nuh here in America.  If neither of these is correct, then people will definitely be pronouncing it wrong.  Don't be offended - just correct them and they will learn.  It may take a few times, but that is to be expected.
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break the word and pronounce \n\n\nthlan - fire - poothl - gwin - githl - go - gerry - chwirrn - droboothl - thlanty - silly-oh - gogogoch.\n\nFor extra effect, mix a bit of "ch" in the end-of-syllable "ll"'s.\n\n\nfor more pronouncing guide\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/F49860?thread=216759
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I am from Bolivia, we mostly sing our national anthem in spanish, but we are a multi cultural country, so there are versions of the anthem is several different laguages, mostly native. \nI am okay with that, we sing the anthem as a sign of respect for our country, we just respect it in different languages.
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Depends on how you pronounce the name.\n\nI see the English version of the name may be pronounced four different ways:\n\n(a)  a-LIS-a \n(b)  a-LIS-ya\n(c)  a-LISH-a \n(d)  a-LEE-sha\n\nhttp://www.behindthename.com/php/search.php?nmd=n&terms=alicia&submit=Go\n\nMy bet is it's one of the last two (the most common, I believe).  So:\n\nIf you pronounce it "a-LEE-sha" (long i), it rhymes with:\n Phoenicia, paramecia\n\nIf you say "a-LISH-a " (short i), it rhymes with \nMorticia, milita, comitia, adventitia\n\nFor a-LIS-a:\nmantissa, abscissa, crissa, vibrissa\n\nBeyond that you might need to be a bit more informal.  For instance  \nfor (b)."I'll miss ya" or "..kiss ya"
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dr shorty, VA Girl and Nancy Kay are on the right track.\n\nWhat happens is this:  when you shorten "refrigerator" to the one-syllable "fridge" you move the "g" from the beginning of a syllable (re-fri-ger...) to the END of one.\n\nIn English, g is often "soft" (sounding  like "j") at the beginning of a syllable, before e, i or y (germ, "giraffe, gyrate).  \n\nBut at the END of a syllable/word it doesn't quite work that way.  G all by itself at the end is always treated as "hard" --as in rig, bag...\n\nOR when you DO find a "soft g" sound closing a word it is followed by e, AND the preceding vowel is LONG.   For example:  age, page, etc.\n\nSo, by English spelling conventions, "frig" would rhyme with "rig" and "frige" would rhyme with "OBLIGE" \n\nThe way English usually solves this problem -- when there is a g at the end of a syllable/word after a SHORT vowel, you write in the "d" --to represent a sound which is already actually part of the 'soft g sound'.    There are many examples of this:  badge, ridge, ledge, lodge, budge\n\n(If the adding of a D seems odd, notice that j/soft g is actually not one sound, but a combination of two:  d + 'zh';  a related sound, only not using the voice is the combination t + sh, which we commonly represent with "ch".  'zh', if it looks odd, is simply the "voiced" version of "sh". It is the sound made by the Z in "azure")\n\nActually, I believe the REAL problem here stems from the different ORIGINS of two sets of words.  The words ending with "-dge" are generally of Old English lineage, whereas the final (-ge) are from Latin, mostly through French.  So although "refrigerator" comes from a Latin word, "fridge" accomodates itself to the common pattern used for the 'original English' forms.\n\n----------------\n\nA little overkill (sorry!)\n\nThe "rules" above seem to work pretty well when the syllable we're considering is ACCENTED.  When it loses the accent, things may seem more confusing.  \n\nThus there are, in fact, -age words in which the "a" is not long.   But neither is it an accented short vowel (as in "badge")!  Instead, the vowel has ended up in an UN-accented syllable where it is scarcely pronounced at all.   Example:  garbage, adage, manage, pillage.  (Not surprisingly, these are largely words borrowed from Latin, mostly through French into Middle English.)\n\nThen there is "garage".  Of course, English speakers can't even agree on how to pronounce it!  Dialects differ on the vowel sound, on which syllable to accent, and often on whether the final g is a "j" or "zh" sound .  (In this case I prefer the "zh" as befits its French origin.)
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is this for the WHOLE alphabet or just M? And I think that the words have to be pretty simple so the kids can learn how to start to read. First they learn the vowels a-e-i-o-u and then they add the consonance and finally add other consonance to make simple words. ba-bar  be-bebe  bi-...bo-..Does it have to all be in Spanish?
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You don't pronounce "Hi" like "High", you pronounce it like "Hi".  I've seen it happen before.  Seriously.