SPANISH 1 EL ALFABETO SPANISH 1 BELLRINGER 929
SPANISH 1 - EL ALFABETO
SPANISH 1 BELLRINGER 9/29 • Translate the following into Spanish. • What’s your name? • It is two o’clock. • Repeat. • Monday • It is September 29 th.
THE SPANISH ALPHABET
WEIRD STUFF ABOUT THE SPANISH ALPHABET TO AN ENGLISH SPEAKER • The Spanish language has 27 letters (that’s 26 like English plus the “ñ”) and 3 consonant clusters/digraphs (ch, ll, rr). • The vowels (a, e, i, o, and u) always make the same sound. • “A” sounds like the “a” in “father” • “E” sounds like the “ay” in “bay” • “I” sounds like the “ee” in “feet” • “O” sounds like the “o” in “go”, but shorter • “U” sounds like the “oo” in “boot”
ODD CONSONANT SOUNDS • The “h” (hache) in Spanish is ALWAYS SILENT. • The “ñ” (eñe) sounds like the “ny” in “canyon”. • The “j” (jota) sounds like the English letter “h”. In some dialects it’s harsher and sounds almost like the “ch” sound in German. • The double “l” (elle) sounds like either an English letter “y” or almost like the “z” in “azure”, depending on the dialect (though the former is more common). • The single “r” (ere) is about halfway between an English “r” and an English “d”. The double “r” (erre) is rolled at the tip of the tongue.
• “B” (be) and “V” (ve/uve) are pronounced almost identically, erring on the side of the “b” sound in English. • “CH” (che) is pronounced like the “ch’s” in “church”. • “Q” (cu) is pronounced like the letter “K” in English. • Like English, the letters “C” (ce) and “G” (ge) have hard sounds before a, o, and u and a soft sound before e and i. • Spanish hard “C”= the “c” in “cat” • Spanish soft “C”= the English letter “s” • Spanish hard “G”= the “g” in “goat” • Spanish soft “G”=the English letter “H” (pronounced also like “J/jota”)
SPECIAL SYMBOLS • @=arroba • . =punto • Accent (on vowel)= con acento • Ex. É= “E con acento”
QUESTIONS • ¿Cuál es tu correo electrónico? = What is your E-mail? • ¿Cómo se escribe________? = How do you spell_______? • Se escribe…. = You spell it…. • Ex. ¿Cómo se escribe “talentoso”? • Se escribe te-ah-ele-e-ene-te-o-ese-o. • ¿Cuál es tu correo electrónico? • Es losperrosazules@yahoo. mx. • Y ¿cómo se escribe? • Se escribe ele-o-ese-pe-e-erre-o-ese-a-zeta-u-ele-e-ese arroba i griega-a-hache-o-o punto eme-equis.
PRACTICE • Spell the following bolded words out loud in Spanish when the teacher asks you to. Meanings of Spanish words are given in parentheses. • Llegar (to arrive) • Dogs • Mathematics • Hay (there is, there are) • Máquina (machine) • Computer • Wanted • Jalapeño
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