Hello everyone and welcome. You're listening to pronunciation series. This is lesson two, and this is J.P.

Hello, I'm Fernando. Last week in lesson one, we talked about the five vowels in Spanish.

We also talked about the sounds in Spanish

that are similar to the sounds in English.

Right, and there were a lot of them.

Today, we're going to talk about another set of sounds.

We're going to talk about the sounds in Spanish

that are slightly different in Spanish than in English.

Okay. Now, Fernando, you're Mexican,

so are the sounds we talk about today going to be especially Mexican?

I am Mexican, but what you hear today is going to hold true for standard Spanish all over the Spanish-speaking world, including Mexico, Spain, the Caribbean, Central and South America.

Shall we get started?

Okay, what do we got first?

Let's start with La Be de bourro, which is the English letter B.

So, for example, El burro.

El burro.

Now, that's the donkey, El burro.

So when you have la Be that starts a word, you get exactly the same B sound as in English.

I think in Spain they call that La Ve de Barcelona, right? B is in

Barcelona. Now the trick about la be de burro is that most of the time it doesn't start a word.

Most of the time you find la B between vowels. And when it's between vowels, it's pronounced as a

bilibial fricative, which is a sound we don't make in English. So to make the bilabial fricative, try making the English V sound,

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