{"id":15612,"date":"2022-06-28T10:45:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T14:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=15612"},"modified":"2022-06-28T10:40:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T14:40:58","slug":"spanish-grammar-part-1-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/spanish-grammar-part-1-6\/","title":{"rendered":"The pronunciation of &#8220;B&#8221; and &#8220;V&#8221; in Spanish (Listening Practice)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered whether there is a distinction between the pronunciations of letters &#8220;B&#8221; and &#8220;V&#8221;? If so, then today&#8217;s blog is for you! Watch the video below to learn how these two letters should be pronounced in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 tenemos la B y la V en espa\u00f1ol si suenan igual? | BBC Mundo\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vmn_Arwoev4?list=PLLhUyPZ7578eOhaDzuQaUohvgFzplupf-\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video transcription and translation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00bfPara qu\u00e9 tenemos dos letras para un mismo sonido que a veces nos confunde al escribir?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why do we have two letters for the same sound that sometimes confuses us when writing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Muchos de ustedes nos han preguntado por la &#8216;V&#8217; y la &#8216;B&#8217; o, como se dice en algunos pa\u00edses, &#8216;Ve baja&#8217;, &#8216;V corta&#8217; o &#8216;Ve chica&#8217; y &#8216;Be alta&#8217; o &#8216;Be larga&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many of you have asked us about the &#8216;V&#8217; and the &#8216;B&#8217; or, as they say in some countries, <em>&#8216;Ve baja<\/em>&#8216;, &#8216;<em>Ve corta&#8217; <\/em>or <em>&#8216;Ve chica<\/em>&#8216; and <em>&#8216;Be alta<\/em>&#8216; or <em>&#8216;Be larga<\/em>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Por ejemplo, \u00bfc\u00f3mo dir\u00edas &#8220;bienvenidos&#8221;, &#8220;ambivalente&#8221;? \u00a1Exacto! En el idioma espa\u00f1ol no existe diferencia en la pronunciaci\u00f3n de estas letras.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example, how would you say &#8220;bienvenidos&#8221;, &#8220;ambivalente&#8221;? Exactly! In the Spanish language, there is no difference in the pronunciation of these letters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Las dos representan este sonido &#8216;B&#8217; que se llama bilabial sonoro.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both represent this &#8216;B&#8217; sound, which is called sonorous bilabial.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aunque es posible que hayas o\u00eddo la pronunciaci\u00f3n de la &#8216;V&#8217; con este otro sonido &#8216;V&#8217; que se llama labiodental.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although you may have heard the pronunciation of the &#8216;V&#8217; with this other &#8216;V&#8217; sound which is called labiodental.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Esta &#8216;V&#8217; puede aparecer en algunas zonas de Espa\u00f1a, como Valencia o Mallorca, por influencia de sus lenguas regionales.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This &#8216;V&#8217; may appear in some areas of Spain, such as Valencia or Mallorca, due to the influence of their regional languages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Y tambi\u00e9n puede aparecer en algunos sitios del continente americano por la cercan\u00eda con las lenguas amerindias.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It can also appear in some places of the American continent due to its proximity to Amerindian languages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pero podr\u00edamos decir que la existencia de estas dos letras se debe a una cuesti\u00f3n de tradici\u00f3n.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But we could say that the existence of these two letters is due to a matter of tradition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>En lat\u00edn representaban sonidos distintos y por eso la ortograf\u00eda espa\u00f1ola las mantuvo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Latin they represented different sounds and that is why the Spanish orthography kept them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Si repasamos un poco la historia, la letra &#8216;V&#8217; est\u00e1 emparentada con la &#8216;U&#8217; latina, que a su vez deriva de la ypsilon griega, mientras que la &#8216;B&#8217; proviene de la letra griega beta.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Looking back in history, the letter &#8216;V&#8217; is related to the Latin &#8216;U&#8217;, which in turn derives from the Greek upsilon, while &#8216;B&#8217; comes from the Greek letter beta.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Con el paso del tiempo estas dos letras representaron el mismo sonido, pero la confusi\u00f3n con su pronunciaci\u00f3n no es nueva, se remonta al espa\u00f1ol medieval.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the passage of time, these two letters represented the same sound, but the confusion with their pronunciation is not new, it dates back to medieval Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>De hecho, entre los siglos 18, 19 y principios del 20, varias ediciones de la ortograf\u00eda y de la gram\u00e1tica espa\u00f1ola describieron e incluso recomendaron la pronunciaci\u00f3n de la &#8216;V&#8217; como labiodental. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In fact, between the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries, several editions of Spanish orthography and grammar described and even recommended the pronunciation of &#8216;V&#8217; as labiodental.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00bfPor qu\u00e9? Bueno, porque los expertos creyeron que era conveniente distinguirla de la &#8216;B&#8217;, como ocurr\u00eda en varias lenguas europeas, entre ellas el franc\u00e9s, el portugu\u00e9s y el ingl\u00e9s que ten\u00edan mucha influencia en la \u00e9poca.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why? Well, because the experts thought it was convenient to distinguish it from the &#8216;B&#8217;, as was the case in several European languages, including French, Portuguese and English, which were very influential at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pero<\/strong> <strong>esto se elimin\u00f3 en 1911,<\/strong> cuando la Real Academia Espa\u00f1ola dej\u00f3 de recomendarlo y desde entonces ambas letras se dicen igual, oficialmente hablando.<\/p>\n<p>But this was eliminated in 1911, when the Real Academia Espa\u00f1ola stopped recommending it and since then both letters are said the same, officially speaking.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00bfC\u00f3mo lo ves?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"234\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-28-103522-350x234.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-28-103522-350x234.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-28-103522-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Screenshot-2022-06-28-103522.jpg 962w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Have you ever wondered whether there is a distinction between the pronunciations of letters &#8220;B&#8221; and &#8220;V&#8221;? If so, then today&#8217;s blog is for you! Watch the video below to learn how these two letters should be pronounced in Spanish. &nbsp; Video transcription and translation &nbsp; \u00bfPara qu\u00e9 tenemos dos letras para un mismo sonido&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/spanish-grammar-part-1-6\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":15617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[509761,12,547410],"class_list":["post-15612","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-language","category-pronunciation","tag-learning-spanish","tag-spanish-language","tag-spanish-pronunciation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15616,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15612\/revisions\/15616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}