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S5-E8: Linguistic structure: English vs. Spanish: Dr. Desirée Pallais-Downing

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How to Pronounce Vowels in Spanish and English

Spanish has five vowels and they say the same sound every time they're written in a word. Spanish speaking students need to be exposed to letter combinations that represent one sound that's not common in Spanish. The other aspect is I mentioned it before how Spanish vowels retain their phonemic identity irrespective of the syllabic context. So graphemes representing more than one phoneme do occur in Spanish, but to a much lesser degree than in English.

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