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Voice setup

Browser voices come from your system — install the voice in your OS settings:

  • Windows: Settings → Time & language → Speech → Manage voices → Add voices → select Spanish (Spain)
  • macOS: System Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → System voice → Manage voices → download Spanish (Spain)
  • iPhone / iPad setup: Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices → Tap Spanish (Spain), download a voice
  • Android setup: Settings → Language & Input → Text-to-speech output → Tap gear icon next to Google TTS → Install voice data → Download Spanish (Spain) voice
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Pronunciation

ll, y and ñ

Most Spanish speakers pronounce ll and y the same, a little like the y in yes but stronger: , , , . This is called yeísmo. In parts of Argentina and Uruguay you will hear it like sh: /ˈkaʃe/.

ñ is one sound, like ny in canyon: , , . It changes the meaning: (a, one) and (fingernail) are different words.

Minimal pairs

  • una/uña
  • mono/moño
  • pena/peña

Repeat after the voice

  • la calle Mayor
  • el ayuntamiento y la plaza
  • Mañana voy a la montaña.
  • Mañana voy a España.
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n or ñ?

Listen and choose the word.

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Directions

Listen and write.