Unidad 4: En mi casa

2. Escuchemos los diferentes acentos en el español

Observa los videos 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 to listen to the different Spanish accents.

 

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Answer the next question: Why does the accent, vocabulary, style of speaking and structure of arguments identify a speaker as a member to a certain country, if all of them speak Spanish? Document your answer on paper that you hand in the next class. Submit at least 5 different statements based on the two videos you watched. Additionally, indicate what regional differences you noticed from those who spoke per country.

Pay attention, in the first video you will listen to the actual characteristics of each nationality. With the second one, you will listen to the characteristics that differentiate each accent from the point of view of the copycat. Listen several times to these two videos; this will allow you to develop your listening and complete your homework.

Practiquemos nuestra pronunciación:

A woman waving.

Building on the knowledge you gained of pronunciation in the previous unit; in this section we want you to be familiar with the pronunciation of new words. Remember the rules that we studied before so you have better control of Spanish phonetics. The next two charts are a summary of what we studied before: the 10 syllabic rules and irregular phonemes in Spanish:
  1. A simple consonant or consonant group goes with the following vowel.
  2. Two consonants are separated; except when you have an S (goes with the syllable before.)
  3. Three consonants are usually divided after the first one, unless the second is an S.
  4. Four consonants between vowels are always divided after the second.
  5. Diphthongs or triphthongs are destroyed if the soft vowel is stressed.
  6. The diphthong exists also with the h in the middle.
  7. Words ending in vowel, n, or s are stressed on the next to the last syllable.
  8. Words ending in any consonant except n or s are stressed on the last syllable.
  9. When rules above are not followed, it is when we use the orthographic accent.
  10. Diacritical accents are used to differentiate between same words with different meaning.
Sonido: vocal a vocal e vocal i vocal o vocal u
K ca que qui co cu
G ga gue gui go gu
Gw gua güe güi guo
H ja ge, je gi, ji jo ju
Th, S za ce ci zo zu
S sa se si so su
silent ha he hi ho hu

Using the charts that we just presented to you, you need to divide the following new words in syllables. The consonants with the vowel that have an irregular phoneme are marked in yellow; remember the ceceo or seseo as in how these are pronounced in Spain. After you divide the words in syllables, circle the stressed syllable. You need to write the sound that the consonant in yellow (irregular phoneme) needs to follow and the reason it has this sound. Follow the examples.

Remember the highlighted syllable is not the stressed or accented syllable. It is only showing you where the irregular phoneme is.

palabra Sí – la – bas sonido razón
casa ca – sa K Sound K ca, co,cu
gustar gus – tar G Sound g gu, ga,go
cigüeña ci – güe – ña GW Sound gw güe, güi
hacer ha – cer TH/S Sound th/s ce, ci
adjetivos Ad – je – ti – vos H Sound H ja,jo,je,ju
gigante
acordar
goma
conseguir
guerra
pequeño
guante
pingüino
anaranjado*
sugerir
izquierda
jirafa
ciencias
espejo
calor
querer
acuerdo

*Nota: anaranjado en España y el Caribe, naranja en gran parte de Hispanoamérica.

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