{"id":9343,"date":"2016-01-18T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T15:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=9343"},"modified":"2016-01-06T12:34:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T17:34:36","slug":"8-video-tutorials-to-perfect-your-spanish-pronunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/8-video-tutorials-to-perfect-your-spanish-pronunciation\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Video Tutorials to Perfect Your Spanish Pronunciation"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we mentioned in a recent blog post, pronouncing Spanish<\/a> can be a lot harder than people think.<\/p>\n

Maybe you’ve been learning for years, even living abroad in a Spanish-speaking country, and are still struggling with the stigma of speaking too\u00a0gringo, <\/i>so you’re\u00a0striving for spectacular Spanish speech sounds. Or maybe you’re just starting out learning and you’re\u00a0making sure your pronunciation is on point to avoid\u00a0giving the locals any indication they should speak English to you.<\/p>\n

Whatever your reason, there are plenty of concrete ways to improve your pronunciation in Spanish or any other language.<\/p>\n

In our recent post on the 5 sounds that are making you sound super gringo<\/i> in Spanish<\/a>, we identified five of the key suspects. To continue working on these sounds, we’ll go through some practical instructional videos, all of them showing you what your mouth needs to be doing differently to make these sounds properly. If you like some or all of these videos, consider subscribing to their Youtube channels and incorporating them into your language learning routine!<\/p>\n

Here are five of the trouble-making Spanish speech sounds we looked at last week, and 8 videos to help you pronounce them better.<\/p>\n

1) La v y la b<\/i><\/h3>\n

The pronunciation of \/b\/ and \/v\/ don’t make a whole lot of sense to non-native speakers of Spanish. Even worse — most learners don’t realize that the English v<\/i> sound doesn’t exist in Spanish at all.<\/p>\n

These two seemingly unrelated letters actually make the same sound, and the details of that sound depend on where it occurs in a word.\u00a0This video looks at how the \/b\/ and the \/v\/ are distributed\u00a0in Spanish, how to pronounce them, and when.<\/p>\n