shila
z sound in español

How do Spanish people pronounce (z) and (c) sound??are these pronounced differently??

I know Mexicans pronounce them like (s) sound, but what about people in Spain??

16 ago 2015 06:49
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There's a lot of differences.

 

Z sound how said C95, is a /θ/. And always sound like /θ/

 

Ej: Zapatilla.

 

With C there are two sounds. We can find a /θ/ sound only if the next letter is an "e" or and "i"

 

ej: cielo, cereza, in these words "c" sounds like "z"

 

If the next letter is "a", "o", "u"; c sounds like /K/. 

 

ej: Casa, coco, cuchara. C before these letter NEVER sounds like /θ/

16 agosto 2015
3

The 'th' sound - I'm talking about /θ/ - only comes with a "z" or with a "c" before an i or an e. So words like 'zapato, 'cielo' or 'cerveza' would sound 'thapato', 'thielo' and 'thervetha'. Only "s" is pronouced like /s/.

However, Spain has many dialects and not all them follow this pattern :) This is to be considerated standard Peninsular Spanish or "Castillian Spanish". Hope this helps!

16 agosto 2015
2

Yes, our pronunciation is different, and not easy to foreigners, I think.

The sounds can be grouped in that way:

 

sa se si so su (no problem here)

 

ca que qui co cu (can be read as ka ke ki ko ku. Ce and ci make a differen sound!)

 

za ce/ze ci/zi zo zu (And here they are. We usually wrote incorrectly the words with ce/ze or ci/zi, as the sound is the same.)

 

Please, use this link to hear the pronunciation of people of different countries.

 

http://forvo.com/word/cereza/#es

 

 

 

 

16 agosto 2015
1

SHILA, first you are a beautiful girl.

regarding your second question, All people in all latin america, I speak billions people. Pronunce the z and c like s sound. in fact, the most people here think that people in spain sounds funny. but everything is in the eye of where you look. spanish speakers understeand with two sound without problem

1 settembre 2015
1

Thank for your answers, my friends.

So now I have a question: if I pronounce z and c like s sound, don't I seem like a fool stranger??I mean will I be coprehensible enough just like a native Spanish speaker?isn't it funny or ridiculous for native speakers??

I really care about normal speaking.

27 agosto 2015
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