When speaking Spanish, how do you pronounce the letters "c" and "z"? (user search)

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When speaking Spanish, how do you pronounce the letters "c" and "z"? (search mode)

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#1 Pronuncio los dos como "/s/"		24 (80%)
#2 Pronuncio los dos como "/th/"		5 (16.7%)
#3 Pronuncio "c" como "/s/" y "z" como "/th/"		1 (3.3%)

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Topic: When speaking Spanish, how do you pronounce the letters "c" and "z"? (Read 768 times)

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When speaking Spanish, how do you pronounce the letters "c" and "z"?

« on: April 03, 2015, 04:15:11 PM »

I was taught at a fairly young age to pronounce both with an "/s/" sound, and have always heard native Spanish speakers in Texas do so. I had not been exposed to the "ceceo" phenomenon until having a Spanish professor in college who I assumed for a while had some sort of speech impediment.

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Indy Texas
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Re: When speaking Spanish, how do you pronounce the letters "c" and "z"?

« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2015, 05:04:37 PM »

Quote from: RGriffin on April 03, 2015, 04:56:12 PM

Option 1. I only do what Option 3 says when I'm making fun of Spaniards.

Wait, so you pronounce all Cs as /s/, even at the beginning of the word? Yeah, I can see why your professor thought that... Tongue

Sorry, I meant where they're in the middle of a word.

I mean like in Barcelona - do you pronounce it "bar-se-LOH-na" or "bar-the-LOH-na"?

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