Thursday, July 17, 2008

Las Vocales

This is a song by Cri Cri that I found in Youtube. I have used it in my Spanish classes for children to get them interested in the vowels.


LAS VOCALES
Let's practice the sounds of the vowels. If you are an English speaking person, you are going to experience some difficulty in saying Spanish vowels because they are short and tense. This means that they are never drown out with a u or an i sound at the end like in : lo is not pronounced/low/ and de is not pronounced / day/Las vocales: There are 5 vowels in Spanish:

a........................like in the
a in father but shorter and tense
e........................like in the
e in they but without the glide in i
i.........................like in the
i in machine but shorter and tense
o........................like in the
o in home but without the u sound following
u........................like in the
u in rule but shorter and tense.


VOWEL: A 

   
cama=bed
papa=potato
casa=house
mamá=mother

nada=nothing
cara=(noun) face; expensive(adjective)
mapa=map


VOWEL: E
 

Bebé=baby
nené=baby
tendré=will have
cerveza=beer
cereza=cherry
leche=milk
lente=eyeglasses
 

VOWEL: I 

idea=idea
igual=equal
infancia=childhood
ir=to go 
importancia=importance 
Inca

VOWEL: O
 
 
oso=bear
olvidar=to forget
ocho=eight
ola=wave
ojo=eye
olor=smell


VOWEL: U
 

uno=one
uña=fingernail
uva=grape
una=one

un=one

In later posts, I'll have videos or sound files with the vowels paired with consonants to help you with pronunciation. The first post of this kind is:

Las Vocales -practice the sounds (click under related posts and it will take you directly to that post.)

Next, I'll be adding other posts with more opportunities to listen and practice.

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Great post on the vowels in Spanish and I like the video too.

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