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Well we have to make shows on english on every new year . So we want to make a meet of Santas (well Ukrainians have Father Frost , but thats the same) . We (santas) are meeting in Finnland - the mother land of santas . Well im playing Santa from Spain . The thing im asking here the spanish accent . I dunno how everything *reads* + i need to change some english words on spanish . And i also need to say one problem of country that i will fix in the next year .


Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:48 pm
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Roll your 'R's. Thats all there is to it.


Mon Dec 08, 2008 5:41 pm
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There's a bit more to it than that depending on where it's spoken but for the most part, letters always sound the same. (unlike English)

http://www.lingolex.com/pronounce/ is a decent site that should show you letter pronunciations.

Another thing to consider is you (almost?) always stress the second-to-last syllable unless there is an accent mark somewhere else.


Mon Dec 08, 2008 6:07 pm
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CommanderCool wrote:
Roll your 'R's. Thats all there is to it.


Do you mean "It Woroks" ok "It worrrks" ???


Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:01 pm
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The second one. Remember, roll the R's, but dont drag them.


Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:42 pm
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Ack! No no no that isn't all.
If it has an 's', pronounce it as a 'th'. A slight lisp is included in the European Spanish accent.
Just don't lisp on the Z sounds.
Also, it helps if you have at some point heard Spanish.


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The Fat Sand Rat wrote:
Ack! No no no that isn't all.
If it has an 's', pronounce it as a 'th'. A slight lisp is included in the European Spanish accent.
Just don't lisp on the Z sounds.
Also, it helps if you have at some point heard Spanish.

So you say we're wrong, and then you mention something completely unrelated to anything we've said so far.
Well done.
Oh yes, and:
If there's a tilde'd n (n with a ~ over it), it has to be pronounced ny.
Like Espana (Spanish for Spain), has a tilde over the n that I can't reproduce at the moment, pronounced Ess-pahn-ya.
And yes, in Spain they do in fact have a lisp as mentioned.
I believe it had something to do with one of their kings having one or something...


Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:18 am
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Ok , i'll use that .


Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:49 pm
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