{"id":13271,"date":"2020-02-24T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=13271"},"modified":"2020-03-15T20:00:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T00:00:32","slug":"spanish-a-language-with-caracter-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/spanish-a-language-with-caracter-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish: A Language with car\u00e1cter (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image taken from Pixabay.<\/p><\/div>\n

Welcome to the second part of this blog post, where we are delving into those special little marks that distinguish altogether Spanish from other languages.<\/p>\n

So, which other character grants la lengua de Cervantes<\/em> its unique flavor? It is, of course, el<\/em> acento agudo <\/em>(the acute accent) and the accentuation principle. Let\u2019s begin!<\/p>\n

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Acento agudo<\/strong> (\u00b4)<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>This little oblique line going up and to the right is only used on the five Spanish vowels (a, e, i, o, u) to indicate one of two things: that the syllable the vowel forms part of is stressed, or that the word is to be understood differently from an unaccented counterpart\u2014the diacritic function of the accent. This time, I will focus solely on the stress.<\/p>\n

When learning Spanish phonology, the student must be always aware of an important fact: almost eight out of ten words of that language are to be pronounced with a stress on the penultimate syllable (called palabras<\/em> graves<\/em> or llanas<\/em>). Because of that, most Spanish words show no accent, as it is unnecessary to remind how the word must sound:<\/p>\n