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Spanish Visual Dictionary For Dummies

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This Visual Dictionary For Dummies is your ideal travel companion. It can be carried conveniently and consulted quickly; all you have to do is show the picture of the thing youre talking about or of the situation you wish to describe, and presto! And since the pictures are accompanied by the corresponding English words and their Spanish translations, you will also be able to learn a lot of new vocabulary!

Spanish and English have a lot in common, including a common history. While Spanish is a Romance language and English is Germanic, a portion of the English language was influenced by Romance sources and vice-versa. Many centuries ago, as these languages were still fairly new, they began to merge as the Germanic and Roman people increased communication. This common history means our two vocabularies also have much in common in fact, 30 percent to 40 percent of all words in English have a related word in Spanish.

In English, the vowels are divided into two groups: the so-called long or tense vowels, and the so-called short or lax vowels. Spanish does away with the distinction all vowels are pronounced alike.

• agua (A): The Spanish a sound in agua is the same as the a sound in English word father.
• deber (E): The Spanish e is pronounced like the eh in the English word web.
• dificil (I): The Spanish i is pronounced like the ee in the English word deed.
• otoo (O): The Spanish o sound in otoo is a good match for the long o sound in the English word oak.
• sur (U): The Spanish u sound in sur matches the vowel sound we have in the English word tool.

Yes, Spanish speakers tend to talk fast! That means words tend to blend together and you sometimes dont make a clear distinction from the end of one word and the beginning of another. This is especially true in the following cases:

• When the last letter of a word is the same as the first letter of the next word
• When the last letter of a word is a consonant and the first letter of the next word is a vowel
• When the last letter of a word is a vowel and the first letter of the next word is a vowel

Intonation in Spanish deciding which syllable to stress is particularly difficult for English speakers. Words are stressed in a different rhythm than in English. Dont worry, though; if you follow a few simple guidelines, youll soon be speaking Spanish like a native:

• Words that end with vowels are stressed on the next-to-last syllable.
• Words that end with an n or an s are also stressed on the next-to-last syllable.
• Words that end with a consonant that is not an n or an s are stressed on the last syllable.
• Exceptions to the rules above are marked with an accent over the vowel to be stressed.

Most Spanish consonants match the sound of English exactly, but youll need to pay particular attention to some consonants that are tricky for English speakers to pronounce.

• ll: The ll has the same sound that the letter j does in a lot of English words juice, jade, June, and July, for example. That means juice and lluvia (rain) both start with the same sound.
• y: When you have a y at the beginning or middle of a word, the y sound is the same as the Spanish ll or the English j in juice. When you have a y at the end of the word, it acts as a vowel sound just like the ee in eerie.
• b and v: This may take some getting used to. In Spanish, there is absolutely no difference between the sound of b and the sound of v it will always be a b sound. That means Venezuela actually sounds like Benezuela.
• h: Spanish speakers dont generally pronounce the letter h. The one exception is when it is used in combination with a c, as in ch. When that occurs, it has the ch sound we have in English for