Learn Spanish How To

You may have noticed that elsewhere in this site we have generally used the Spanish alphabet to represent Spanish words and sounds. We’ve also given you some pointers about pronouncing (forming) some of the sounds in the Spanish alphabet.
We know that you are interested in speech–speaking Spanish and understanding the spoken language.  However, in this [...]

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1. The first concept to conquer if you want to learn how to speak Spanish is vowel and consonant pronunciation. Unlike English, Spanish vowels always sound the same–no long vowel sounds.

a sounds sort of like the a in father
e sounds sort of like the e in let
i sounds [...]