Hello, I'm Fernando.

Basic pronunciation 1.

I'm here with JP.

JP, what's going on?

Hey, Fernando, I'm ready to talk about pronunciation.

How about you?

I am ready as well.

Cool.

So in this pronunciation series, we're going to talk about the different sounds of the Spanish language.

That's a big topic.

And there are all kinds of variations, a lot of stuff to cover, and we're going to try to do it all in five podcasts.

Basically, what we're going to do is to go through the alphabet and talk about the different sounds.

Now, before we start, Fernando, can you tell us a little bit about the kind of

Spanish that you speak? Sure thing. Now, because I went to school in Chihuahua, that's in northern

Mexico, I speak Mexican Spanish. Okay, now for all our listeners out there, Mexican Spanish is a great

place to start learning Spanish because everybody understands Mexican. Mexicans pronounce all the

letters.

Gee, JP, thanks for the endorsement.

Okay, now this is important because I want to say that every once in a while I get email from people saying, I only want to learn European Spanish, or I only want to learn Chilean Spanish.

And so I want to say at the beginning that it really doesn't matter which Spanish you start

with, because they're not all that different. Do they really send you emails? Yes, they too. Absolutely.

You have to believe me. And it's ridiculous. To me, it's like saying, I don't want to learn American

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