Práctica oral

 

Saludos y despedidas:

Salude a su profesor/asistente, debe presentarse a sí mismo, y luego pregúntele al profesor cómo está y su nombre. Después, debe preguntarle el nombre de su mejor amigo/a, esposo/a etc.

Greet your language assistant/professor, you should introduce yourself, then ask your profesor how he/she is, and his/her name. Then, ask him/her the name of his/her best friend, spouse, child, and/or roommate.

Descripciones con ser:

Use el verbo “ser” para describirse, a su mejor amigo y a alguien importante en su vida – como un miembro de su familia o su compañero/a de cuarto. Debe estar listo/a para decir el nombre de la persona y cómo es. Después, debe preguntarle al profesor/asistente cómo es y también sobre alguien importante en su vida.

Using the verb ser, describe yourself, and your best friend, or someone important in your life, like a family member or roommate. Be prepared to tell your professor/assistant this person’s name, what they look like, and what their personality is like. You should then ask the professor/language assistant what he/she is like, and about someone important in his/her life.

Práctica oral: grabación

Below, you will see a long list of various words that incorporate the letters of the alphabet. Listen to these words, and practice repeating them. You are not responsible for knowing the meanings of these words, but do familiarize yourself with the pronunciations.

a Play Audio agua, Play Audio año, Play Audio árbol, Play Audio arriba, Play Audio arte
collage of some of the items

Foto: Art Explosion
b Play Audio bata, Play Audio boca, Play Audio Bogotá
c Play Audio Cali, Play Audio carta, Play Audio casa, Play Audio caza, Play Audio cena, Play Audio César, Play Audio cigarrillo, Play Audio Colombia, Play Audio cuestión, Play Audio curso
ch Play Audio cucaracha, Play Audio charro
d Play Audio David, Play Audio deuda, Play Audio doña
e Play Audio elefante, Play Audio Elena, Play Audio está
f Play Audio fábrica, Play Audio felicidad, Play Audio ferrocarril, Play Audio fútbol
g Play Audio gato, Play Audio gitano, Play Audio gol, Play Audio guitarra
h Play Audio hermano, Play Audio hija, Play Audio hoja
i Play Audio igual, Play Audio introvertida
j Play Audio Jesús, Play Audio juzgar
k Play Audio Karina, Play Audio kilo
l Play Audio largo, Play Audio loma
ll Play Audio llegar, Play Audio lleno, Play Audio llanto, Play Audio ella
m Play Audio maní, Play Audio menso, Play Audio México, Play Audio muchacho, Play Audio Muñoz
n Play Audio nada, Play Audio ningún
ñ Play Audio Nuñez
o Play Audio octavo, Play Audio ojalá, Play Audio once, Play Audio otro
p Play Audio papá, Play Audio papel, Play Audio Pedro, Play Audio pez
q Play Audio que
r Play Audio radio, Play Audio reto, Play Audio reloj
s Play Audio solo, Play Audio subir
t Play Audio tapas, Play Audio tarde, Play Audio taza, Play Audio todo
u Play Audio uvas
v Play Audio vaca, Play Audio vez, Play Audio voto
y Play Audio yo, Play Audio ayer, Play Audio muy, Play Audio y
z Play Audio zapatos, Play Audio zorro

You may have noticed a few different things as you listened to the alphabet and to the above words. As you can tell, the h in Spanish is silent. In other words, you don’t pronounce it. If you didn’t notice this, go back and listen to the words hija and hoja again.

As you heard in the words gato, gitano, the g does not always have the same sound. When g is followed by an a, o, or u, it has a hard sound, like in gato. When g is followed by an e or an i, it has a soft sound, like in the word gitano. The j in Spanish sounds very much like an English h. Go back and listen to the words Jesús and ojalá.

The letter c also represents two sounds. When c is followed by an a, o, or u, it has a k sound. When c is followed by an e or an i, it sounds like an s. (In most Peninsular Spanish dialects, it sounds as the th sound in the word “think.”)

One other thing you may have noticed is that the ll sounded a little different, depending on the voice that you heard. In the Rio de la Plata region of Latin America, which incorporates Argentina and Uruguay, many people pronounce the ll sound a bit differently than in other parts of Latin America and Spain. If you go back and listen to the words llanto and ella, you will hear an example of the Rio Platense ll. The words llegar and lleno will give you an example of the ll you will hear in other parts of Latin America and Spain. Both of these pronunciations are perfectly correct.

As you learn more and more Spanish, you will probably notice that you will not see the letters k and w in many words. These letters are used mostly in words that are borrowed from other languages.

Now that you have seen and heard the alphabet and many examples of words, try the following exercises.

Ejercicio:

En español, deletree las siguientes palabras. En adición, escoja 10 palabras de vocabulario de esta lección para deletrear. Las palabras deben ser grabadas usando la herramienta de grabación en Recursos para estudiantes en la introducción de este curso para grabar. Mándele a su profesor su grabación por correo electrónico. (In Spanish, spell out the following words. In addition, choose 10 vocabulary words from this lesson to spell.)

  1. ejercicio
  2. divorcio
  3. llamar
  4. cumpleaños
  5. familiarizar

 

 

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