Spanish Alphabet and Pronunciation Lesson

[FATWILLLL]

thx, where u from?

[TheAjmacni]

Im a Filipino. I want to learn Spanish

[MrArabatxo]

Harmonía hasn't got any H. It is armonía (I'm Spanish)

[languagenow]

@MrArabatxo Sí, lo sé, por eso le he puesto al vídeo una anotación a los 3:02 mins

[mo0xXa2593]

muy buena tu clase de pronunciacion.. de hecho este es mi idioma materno.. y el video se lo envie a una amiga que quiere aprender a hablar mi idioma =)

[jentaSole]

thanks :)

[GamingNews64]

thank you, because i passed my spanish test and we had no notes to look over.

[RaiiStarr]

Thank You !

[MrRoy1234567]

gracias

[freemspointsful]

thumbs up if your in middle school or taking a spanish class

[ausratol]

@freemspointsful LOL.. im in high school..

[freemspointsful]

@ausratol you shouldn't be in spanish then unless you just started taking spanish in hs

[ausratol]

@freemspointsful Yup.. we take english as second language in here. Spanish is 4th language ;)

[Kierstinjade123]

i'm so confused :(

[5SuperMeme]

he is THE BEST am defiantly subscribing ^^

[ewwwaem]

YOU'RE THE BEST ;) I'm in shock: this is not borning! ;))) this is really good job. JUST MUCHO GRACIAS! Thank You, thnak You thank You!!!!

[ragazzo0625]

Muy buen video, me parece que queda muy clara la pronunciación de cada letra........

[RCAMPOMAS]

Saludos. Es usted venezolano profesor Jason ?

[Kool4Sure]

I lol'd when you used idiota as an example. :P Gracias! I already learned this, but just wanted to review. :D

[tradguitarplaya]

Muy Bien! this stuff is great. I am making real progress with Spanish. Thanks Professsor

[tinacroft]

Very helpful thank you very much :) I owe you !!! xx

[eucalipto11]

@casalivan ¿Y tu que sabes si todos en España opinamos igual? De verdad que mania tiene la gente con generalizar...

[laloxito1]

in Spanish of Spain Z consonant is pronounced like the English pronunciation TH

[MissWynne100]

I was reading in the notes at the beginning of the video that the Alphabet changed in 2010. What exactly changed? Me gustan tus videos. Ya me ensene espanol, hace 9 anos. Quiero ensenar a mis hijos. Mi hija tiene 7 anos y me imagino que ella hablo el espanol mejor que you porque su papa la llevo a mexico de donde el es. Muchas gracias por tus videos!

[kostaryka5]

o ludzie benzadziejne nie rozumiem tego wogóle

[lesane20]

enseno espanol a mi mismo :-)

[Arcks120]

Me puedes explicar porque pones Yerba? xD? No querras poner Hierba?

[languagenow]

@Arcks120 No, quería decir justamente YERBA, la cual es una palabra tan legítima como HIERBA, existen las dos, y YERBA es hasta más común en las Américas: yerba mate, etc. Confírmalo en cualquier dicionario de calidad, como el de la RAE, por exemplo. Vas a ver :)

[casalivan]

Wrong accent my friend, "C" before I and E is pronounced "TH" and not "S", thats basic!!

[languagenow]

@casalivan no existen dialectos buenos y malos, amigo, eso simplemente no existe, es un prejuicio de tu parte... El espaÑol de Mexico o de Chile es tan " bueno" como cualquier otro... Nuevamente y en buena onda te insto a que superes tus prejuicios y que te informes sobre linguistica basica....

[casalivan]

@languagenow No son prejuicios, el castellano standard diferencia afortunadamente la C de la S y de la Z. Y ese es el oficial para todo el mundo, pues todas las academias están integradas en la RAE. Cuando un dialecto pierde capacidad de comunicación y de entendimiento, realmente no es un buen dialecto. Se que politicamente lo correcto es decir que es igual de bueno, pero no lo es. Cazar y Casar son dos cosas MUY distintas. Como cocer y coser, zeta y seta, roza y rosa, ceno y seno, etc...

[guidoylosfreaks]

@casalivan Bienes y vienes; bota y vota; bello y vello; aya y haya y muchos pares más que no involucran c, s o z suenan igual pero significan cosas diferentes, pero por el contexto se entiende, no hay que ser un genio para eso y se dice estándar no standard ya que hablamos de castellano. Por si nadie te lo ha dicho los que seseamos somos mas y la RAE acepta el seseo, por lo tanto la distinción no es oficial para todo el mundo.

[casalivan]

@guidoylosfreaks En españa la gente no opinamos lo mismo que vosotros.

[casalivan]

@languagenow Te vuelvo a decir lo mismo, tienes muy buenos videos, pero realmente si un dialecto pierde capacidad de comunicación no es igual de bueno, siento tener que decirlo, se que es politicamente incorrecto, pero es la verdad, y a veces la verdad no gusta, puedes preguntar a cualquier español. Debemos promover el standard (el castellano de España) y no los dialectos que pierden capacidad comunicativa. Un saludo.

[lepm2006]

@languagenow Excelente respuesta. Saludos de Venezuela!!

[criskwi]

@languagenow Déjate de populismos por favor.

En España se habla el castellano, esto implica que se pronuncie la "C" como "th" y no como si fuese una "S", de ahí la corrección de " @casalivan ", es absurdo pensar que un acento es mas importante que otro, pero si debes dejar claro a la gente que ve tus vídeos e intenta aprender contigo que tipo de español estas enseñando.

Un saludo

[banerplayboy]

con todo el debido respero chinge a su madre profesor jeisen [jason]

[tooawefullydifferent]

I'm studying spanish at the university and got taught that the "c" is pronounced like the english "th" in "think" if "e" or "i" follow, otherwise like k.

Does the pronounciation depend on the country it is spoken in?

[languagenow]

@tooawefullydifferent yes, exactly, what you describe is ONLY in Spain. See my video on dialects :)

[casalivan]

@tooawefullydifferent Thats right, thats the good standard, this guy from the video speaks a NON-STANDARD dialect from some south american country. NO GOOD spanish, hard to understand.

[languagenow]

@tooawefullydifferent yes, it does depend on the country. Read the wikipedia article on SESEO, which explains that SESEO is actually the overwhelming norm throughout some 90% of the Spanish-speaking world. Only in a few regions of Spain is the Z or C before E/I pronounced as TH, but please see my videos on Spanish consonants, I give both pronunciations, See also my video on dialects.

[pablopirineos]

@languagenow I'm sorry, i'm from Spain, and SESEO is only used in a little region of Spain. It sounds horrible when a person who is learning spanish pronounces the C like an S, you have to learn the true Spanish.

[Yonderin]

@languagenow That's true, but not in Spain. I'm spanish, and I can assure the letter C before E and I is pronounced as TH in the whole country except in Canary islands and some parts of Andalucia. Actually it's the main difference between the spanish of Spain and the american spanish.

[pablopirineos]

@tooawefullydifferent you've been well taught, the correct pronounciation of the letter C followed by ''E'' or ''I'', is like the english ''TH''. But the american countries where spanish is spoken ''C'' is pronounced like an ''S''. I'm spanish from Spain. Bye and good luck with your spanish lessons.

[mrcatrinmiss9]

@fireinthegol Bueno, ya que todos nos vamos a acabar, por lo pronto te deseo a ti y a todos los que esto lean, una muy felíz Navidad y que el año próximo tengan éxito en todos sus proyectos. saludos desde México.

[mrcatrinmiss9]

@fireinthegol Yo creo que la población de moros (que eso son los españoles) va a dismunuir y los pocos que queden se van a matar entre ellos ya que como no tienen cerebro y si mucho higado terminarán en otra guerra civil. Los indios de América ya nos estamos apoderando de E. U. y acabaremos quedandonos con gachupilandia. Conservaremos los moros que queden en el zológico (somos ecológicos).

[mrcatrinmiss9]

@fireinthegol Afortunadamente con la taza natalidad que tiene España antes de que termine el siglo ya no habrá gachupines y tu país lo poblaran sudamericanos y africanos. Afortunadamente no entiendes lo que te escribo porque te escribo desde América ¿verdad pinche gachupín de mierda?

[Qu33nOfXtreme]

Very good job! Easy as well :D

[sunshine7018c]

Que bien! con musica de Juan Luis Guerra! "Si tu te vas"

[adiller666]

thank you for these lessons, there maybe hope for me yet.. lol.. thanks

[aresangel77]

if any one would help me learn spanish and chat spanish with me id apreciate it

[joaki16]

gimnasio no se acentúa (gráficamente, claro)

[ElCaballeroDeMexico]

Well sorry dude, but b and v are used for the very same sound which is absent English. Also the ll/y sound is the very same and it is unlike english y. Unless you wanna sound like you're learning Spanish.

The letter w is commonly spelled as doble u, very rarely, mainly in Spain, it is spelled as doble uve. Anyways, the words Washington would be most likely pronounced as /guachinton/ due to the ignorance of Spanish speaking people.

Your video about brazilian portuguese was better actually...

[PocholoMaricon]

english people are very lucky. Spanish pronunciation IS VERY VERY EASY. For spanish to learn english pronunciation takes a lot of years to be understanded by native people.

If you dont beleive me, try to pronunce 'SHAPESKEARE' like a spanish native. If you dont know we say SHA - PES - KE - A - RE LOL

[anlee617]

You just get hungry, I did. xD

[issacgreaves]

This would be better if the professor could look at the camera the whole time rather than looking down to read from another screen/book?

[realjason4567]

Proper way to say Z is "TH"

[banerplayboy]

@realjason4567 just for spain stupid fag piece of shit

[cruss8880]

this is a good video for people who have trouble with Spanish

[cruss8880]

this is a good video for people who have trouble with spanish

[JaalLowliett]

the correct way to pronounce Z in spanish is ''TH''

[phantomfan87]

I like your shirt!

[phantomfan87]

I like you shirt!

[wrldrocks]

Thank you so much.

[Arcks120]

Ey friend , in spanish we don't say sesilia ,we say cecilia with C

[banerplayboy]

@Arcks120 but it's the same sound idiot

[joaki16]

@banerplayboy no en españa, idiota

[banerplayboy]

@joaki16 como no hijo de tu puta madre? españa es el unico pais que pronuncia la "z" como en ingles la "th" es pronunciada.

maldito hijo de puta dime otro lugar donde la z sea pronunciada como "th"?

[joaki16]

@banerplayboy tu agresividad irracional te ciega, eres tan retrasado que eres incapaz de ver que mi respuesta no se referia a tu respuesta a realjason, si no a la de arcks. y de todas maneras en españa hay sitios (por ejemplo en algunas zonas de andalucia) donde la "z" es pronunciada como una "s"

[Arcks120]

@banerplayboy No es lo mismo, se nota que no tienes ni idea de Castellano , C no es igual a S por favor....

P.d: No voy a perder el tiempo en insultarte porque ni mereces la pena

[97Guille]

no is doble ele is uve doble

[97Guille]

JUGO!?????????????????????????­???????Im spanish

[97Guille]

I SPEAK IN SPANISH: El perro de san roque no tiene rabo por que ramon se lo ha robado huevonaso del gimnasio!!

[benicl1]

You are a genius, thank you very much for this, its a great start to learning spanish. Like any child learning english, the alphabet is the best place to start for all the rule's and this is brilliant. Thank you.

[benicl1]

You are a genuis, thank you very much for this, its a great start to learning spanish. Like any child learning english, the alphabet is the best place to start for all the rule's and this is brilliant. Thank you.

[Fkreisler]

impresive!! perfect pronunciation thanks for the lessons :)

[bobbyfaith]

ok, so when does s sounds like a z, is there any rule for that?

also when it is soft t and hard t? like u explained for d, is there any rule for that?

please help.

[Scoobygirl213]

Correction. At the beginning, you should've said "Como Esta Usted" being formal. You said it using familiar. You don't know us so it is supposed to be formal.

[Mlbfan1315]

Good video but you forgot the letter u

[car72smy]

spanish alphabet

[pochsancab]

Perfecto. Usted pronuncia bien el español, saludos!

[ohiovr]

Good lesson! Thanks Jason!

Does this lesson cover all the letter sounds in spanish? In English the letter O can represent 6 sounds.

[nickgms]

i have a oral test on this tomorrow........ i suck at it

[dagopax]

@gohan40129 lol you're the idiot cuz spanish is my native language... I mean I'm fron Colombia dumb ass =D

it's just it sounds funny when he says idiota that's it

LOL

[mixolidianmode]

¡Hola!, Muchas gracias por el curso que se ha tomado la molestía de concebir para el beneficio de otros.

[GeMiNiiii87]

@wwekidtanman It is my belief that there's a tendency towards approximation of the consonant (as in the case of the allophonic values for /b/ or /d/ when in between vowels). Perhaps in the future it might actually get to be a full aspiration /h/ as in English?

[GeMiNiiii87]

@wwekidtanman Go to Venezuela and Cuba (I think) and they will.

Riverplate Spanish, on the other hand (my own accent), features a voiceless velar fricative /x/ for "j" and "ge; gi." The one you're talking about (the Spanish from Spain one) is produced further back in the mouth (at the uvula); it is, therefore, a uvular voiceless fricative /X/

[mickeymouseboo]

this is really helpful, thanks

[morinnana]

this helped alot thanks!(:

[qaaqaaww]

Thank you very much this video helps me a lot!

[4LackOfaBetterNam3]

so, to sum up, here are useless letters in Spanish that have no sound of their own

C, G(sometimes), V, H, X, and J=H, and a rolling R in the begining of a word should be RR

[Kikipotamus]

Professor Jason, you have a little bit of an offglide on your o and u in Spanish.

[WALOKEINELUSTful]

@TheGoddessofmusic007 Generally v has more presence than b in spoken Spanish.

[WALOKEINELUSTful]

@alanacadence In American Spanish it sounds like s, but in Spanish of Spain it sounds like th of think.

[emilsst2]

thanks for this video

[SuperRebafan1]

Professor jason and you post a lesson on things in the home in spanish thanks

[anwervictor]

i love this video

[InMessy]

I'm from China.And there is no sound like "rr" in my native language.So is there any better way to pronounce it? Thanks a lot.

[2009jacklee1993]

This is the Spanish from Southern Spain/Latin America no? porq es la theta por Z, no es seta :/ ...

[CuppyCharms]

@2009jacklee1993 es zeta

[eusatine]

La letra "c" y "z" suena como "th" en inglés. En dialectos suenan como "s" pero su verdadero sonido es como "both". Me alegra que hagas estos vídeos. Si tienes dudas sobre el español no dudes en preguntarme. :)

[123Debug]

Very Good! thanks!

[ciclope22]

soy hispanoparlante... recien me doy cuenta de lo dificil que debe ser la pronunciacion del español in english, i made the opposite work to learn some english... straaaaange... lol

[simoneturunen]

I did it with jason, aprendi a hablar español con el.

[clementenaza]

U're great man :) im from argentina and i like your pronunciaton, although almost any native speaker of spanish can infer u are a foreign speaker of the language! i think u should add that letter Z in spain is pronounced like the TH sound in english, such as in the word THINK. because we southamerican speakers pronounce it that way (like S) but the spanish correct way of pronouncing it, is like TH (that is, voiceless dental fricative)

UN ABRAZO DESDE ARGENTINA :)

[utuberiando]

@clementenaza About the sound for Z, what do you mean by 'the Spanish correct way of pronouncing it'? Si bien es cierto que al grafema Z se le asigna uno u otro fonema según el dialecto del que se trate, no hay una forma correcta de pronunciarlo. Si esto último fuera cierto, deberíamos decir que algunas variedades del castellano son correctas mientras otras no lo son. Cada comunidad castellano-parlante ha gestado su propio dialecto junto con el resto de su cultura. Hay culturas incorrectas?

[clementenaza]

@utuberiando yes! u are right about that! I just thought u were teaching Spanish from Spain! Sorry! Very good job indeed :)

[clementenaza]

U're great man :) im from argentina and i like your pronunciaton, although almost any native speaker of spanish can infer u are a foreign speaker of the language! i think u should add that letter Z in spain is pronounced like the TH sound in english, such as in the word THINK. because we southamerican speakers pronounce it that way (like S) but the spanish correct way of pronouncing it, is like TH (that is, voiceless dental fricative)

UN ABRAZO DESDE ARGENTINA :)

[ifba100]

idiota!

[f11111122]

thank you

[irrovoodoofan]

here is a full trasslation of saying bad tings when u are mad ( vete a la verga puto gringo pendejo ) fuck you stupid american or (gringo)

[ladypirate009]

it's so like tagalog

[JohnDoeXIV]

The Z shuold sound like the C in "cisne".

[likeluisTV]

'idiota'  LOL

[CookieFridays]

Not bad, not bad, thanks for the lesson for those who are learning. =D

Your pronunciation can still be improved but oh well, Spanish pronunciations are hard to master. Hard to speak like a native.

I'm actually currently pronouncing the 'V' as it is in English (is that an error? :P), although I've heard it pronounced as 'B' too. Things become complicated when the letters start sounding the same :p.

[muuuuuuuuybien]

@CookieFridays Antiguamente la"V"se pronunciaba parecido al inglés,de hecho,en la escuela aun se enseña pronunciarla de esta forma.Pero poco a poco la gente fué pronunciándola más parecido a la"B",y así quedó.

[lsleena]

good job i want to learn spanish with u...thanks

[Raimondo123456]

lots of spannish letters sounds the same like polish  LOL ;)

[goeloegoele]

Helpful (:

[micheljr17]

i have a question,

how did you learn Spanish

did you learn it, or are you from a Spanish speaking country

[Jalpseon]

This is sooo hard to memorize! But I want to do it badly! Thank you for this.

[sosbigote]

and what about the "y" like an "and"

[Daames2004]

Great!Wspecially love the text that goes with it.Super helpful.Gracias!

[xxImSexy7272xx]

Thankyou for this video!

"Taco. Did anyone else just get hungry? I did.."

hahaha!

[unstopable629]

Very helpful. Many thanks.

[jaysolo12]

Thank u professor u helped me alot and everyday i get closer to knowing the whole spanish vocab and u were a big part of it gracias

[mrbumblebee361]

idiota lol thank you helped alot

[midgemirage]

Saludos desde México.

[NexLvlDad]

Careful not to soften the of o into a u like in English and keep your e like an e not letting it morph into ey like in the word hey.

[TheOsirisskater69]

This video is very helpfull

[averroes1138]

Don't some speakers make the 'Z' sound like 'TH' in english?

[languagenow]

Yes, speakers in most of Spain do. See my series on consonsants, specifically part 3.

[CuppyCharms]

@averroes1138 thats in spain

[guitarralaraja]

@averroes1138 exactly but it woulnd too useful, it's the same as learning for example southafrican english accent if youre going o fly..

everybody learns american accent =s..

a tip..

if you want so speak spanish and SOUND like ur speaking .... loose ur lips, and mak it soft.. that's pretty much the difference, and what most english native spakers cant achieve,,, you are not speaking english, you dont have to think that... it's a new language.

[Bountylicious]

Thank you very much for this Video. I speak Fluent English and Fluent Somali too which is why it is easy for me to pronounce all of the Vowels perfectly as it's virtually the same in the Somali language and some of the Constants are too.

You did a great job. Thank you again.

[AGA67427]

the english o is prounounced like o + u. you need to drop the the u sound at the end of your o's

[bodtorent]

You may be creating the first great spanish language videoencyclopedia.

Congratulations for such a great effort and good job.

[Jabriel86]

I would love to speak Spanish

but its just too fast for my mouth:/

[mijotito09]

el español es más difícil de aprender que el inglés, en serio

[midgemirage]

Exactamente, auqneu cada idioma tiene su particularidad :D

[dagopa626]

lol why did you use "idiota" for the vowel "I"? :D

[gohan40129]

@dagopa626 because your a idiot if you cant say i correctly Lol..

[languagenow]

thanks for the comment, yeah I know what you are saying about those sounds (same sound actually, different letters), but the pronunciation depends quite a bit on the dialect. what you are saying describes some people's pronunciation -- in Spain, for example. I comment on this in my videos on consonants and pronounce them both ways, raspier and clearer, both are very common and correct

[postcopy]

Gracias por tu tiempo, se que dar clases es dificil y solo deseas ayudar, en verdad te agradezco tu esfuerzo, tambien creo que tus videos son muy buenos y ayudan bastante a la gente que los quiere aprovechar y aprender y no a los que solo malgastan su tiempo solo para criticar.

[ForevahMJ]

OOBLE DOOBLE EHKEES HAHAHAHHA

[daromagreat]

he is pronouncing in latin american way, there are not mistakes, I'm from peru, well, actually there are some mistakes, but they are not important.....

[iSPaLiTo]

Me hace gracia, En los videos que has subido se pronuncia como digo yo, salvo en uno donde unas veces "sesea" y otras no y pronuncia bien tal y como digo

Yo solo pretendo ayudar y no forzar a que se hable como en España, sino el español internacional

Pero sí sé por donde váis vosotros

[HunterMann]

If "idiota" is not a nice word to be repeating, then why did you use it in this video? Nice polo shirt, bad hair cut.

[jamarijr]

Wow, negative much?

[HunterMann]

He says idota is "not a nice word to be repeating, but a good word to practice with". Why? There are other words that can provide practice without using the word "idiota". I didn't bring up the word "idiot", he did. He should, at the same time he teaches the vowels, teach people to speak with a native-sounding accent, rather than just sounding like a gringo talking. What do I know... I've only been speaking Spanish for 30 years.

[iSPaLiTo]

"ZA, CE, CI, ZO, ZU" are pronuouced like "th" in english like "with" or "without"

like all anglophones you pronounces bad this letters. There are some mistakes more but not important

[michsports]

@iSPaLiTo

su inglés es peor

[iSPaLiTo]

@michsports

yeah, but i am not teaching english

I'm sorry. I only want to help to learn spanish

espero que se me haya entendido, ya se que mi inglés es muy malo

[selcuk61]

it is same with turkish

[megaheartz]

how do you pronounce 'ci' in a word, i listened to some tutorials and they pronounced it as'fi'

[alucoq]

ci in a word could be ciudad (city) or ciervo (deer) sounds like "si" not "fi". Do not confound "si" with yes.

[inmancebo]

You need to lisp your ces and your zees.

[meikofrank]

Hi! I'm Chilean and I must say that our language is awful, I mean ... Our "Chilean language" our accent... People don't use the correct words or pronunciation. For example in words that have a "D" in the last syllable and they end with a vowel, the "D" does not exist!!  ( Pescado- pescao) and I dislike that. I speak that way , thou. However, I often try to speak well.

Sorry if my english is too bad! I'm still learning!

BTW: Está muy bueno el video!

[sunbrek]

Yep O is O not Ou that is the only bad i can see so far

[buttaz3000]

you pronouncing the letter a bit rong. because you say instead of streit O you say Ou like americano ina wey

[Ixtlilxochitl85]

The labiodental sound for "V" doesn't exist in Spanish. Those who pronounce it that way are mainly influenced by the English and other Romance languages pronunciation, such as French or Italian. They might think that if in those languages the labiodental sound for "V" exists, then it is the same in Spanish. For further information on this I recommend you the Manual de Gramática Histórica Española by Ramón Menéndez Pidal.

Greetings.

[languagenow]

Greetings! In the prescriptive phonetics of Spanish, the [v] labiodental should not exist, but many speakers do pronounce it in different contexts. In some dialects, the [v] is practically normative (in Chile, for instance, where even B is often pronounced as a labiodental)... But you are right, TECHNICALLY it is not part of Spanish phonetics

[languagenow]

It's like I say in the video, SOME speakers do pronounce it, but it (should) be pronounced just as the phonomes for the letter B.

[Ixtlilxochitl85]

I didn't know chilenos pronounce the labiodental [v]. There's no doubt we learn something new every day, mainly about languages, the eternal changing systems. Keep up the good quality of your teachings.

Greetings from Mexico!

[isasave]

@languagenow i´m a native spanish speaker from venezuela and i pronounce "v" difrerent than "b". I¨m from the andean region and that´s something caracteristic of us (de los andinos de mi pais, nos llaman gochos, pero es un termino que algunas personas consideran despectivo xq significa cochino) , also some little towns in the area have the "c"and "s" sound, not so hard like spanish people but u can notice their speak way is different from the rest of the country :)

[utuberiando]

@Ixtlilxochitl85 I couldn't agree more!