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Before going into the terminology I want to firstly give an understanding of the format and structure of reading Spanish. The letter are the same as English letters however the pronunciation is different. In Spanish when you see the letter Q it is often pronounced as a K. For example “Que Pasa” pronounced Ke pasa. When you see the letter J in Spanish writing it is pronounced like the letter H. For example “Jesus” or “Jose” are pronounced hesoos and hozey. In the word “trabajo” meaning work it is pronounced trabaho. This rule also applies when you see the letter G at the beginning of a Spanish word. For example the word “Gente” means people but it is pronounced Hente. Likewise with the word “Emergencia” meaning emergency but the G is pronounced as an H therefore it is pronounced “emerhencia”

A few more common techniques is to know that when you see a double L in a Spanish word “llamar”; the double L is pronounced like a letter J or like a letter Y depending on the dialect. Therefore “llamar” is pronounced Jamar or in another example is the word ella meaning she. Ella can be prounced eya or eja depending on the dialect but they are both correct. When you see an accent mark over the letter n remember that the accent mark gives that n a ny sound. For example in the words niñaor niño meaning child. niña is pronounced neenya and niño is pronounced neenyo because of the accent signified over the letter n.

Last point is to remember when you see a double r like in the last name Cabrera remember to roll your r’s with flutter in your tongue. And when there is a double letter C used in words like “identificaccion” meaning “identification” the double c gives it a s sound therefore making it pronounced “identifi casee on”