sounding great in spanish finding the emphasized syllable. learning the accent rules

Sounding great in Spanish

Finding the emphasized syllable.

Learning the accent rules.

Which syllable is loudest?

• hermano

• trabajo

• bueno

• ganas

• importante

• inteligente

• What is the rule that you think makes the emphasis fall on the next to last syllable?

• If a word ends in a vowel, n or s, the next-to-last syllable is the loudest.

What about the following words? Where does the emphasis fall?

• pared

• madrid

• tenedor

• leal

• mudar

• eficaz

• From the examples given, what would you hypothesize is rule governing where the emphasis falls in the words you just examined?

• If a word ends in a consonant other than N or S, the last syllable is the loudest.

What would you hypothesize the accent marks in the following words

tell a speaker to do?

• día

• fácil

• difícil

• rápidamente

• águila

• An accent mark tells you that one of the two rules: ends in vowel, n or s or ends in any other consonant HAS BEEN BROKEN.

• When you pronounce a word differently than the rules say, you write in the accent for a reader.

How do I divide words into syllables to find the loudest syllable?

• The only letters that can start a syllable are letters that can start a word in Spanish normally.

• importante im por tan te• There are no words that begin

with mp or rt or nt. Split these consonant groups.

• a, e, and o are strong vowels and they can stand by themselves.

• leal has to be split le and al.• You cannot have two strong

vowels side by side in the same syllable.

• That leaves i and u as weak vowels that don’t stand alone well. They often blend with a strong vowel, another weak vowel or have an accent in an emphsized syllable.

• buenos bue nos

• siete sie te

• almuerzo al muer zo

• duerme duer me

• colibrí co li brí

The most common pattern in syllables in Spanish is…

• Consonant followed by vowel.

• For example.

• sí la ba

• pa la bra

• co no ce

sounding great in spanish finding the emphasized syllable. learning the accent rules

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