Wow, what an excellent video! I've been looking for such a thorough explanation of the different "d" sounds in Spanish for some time now, and finally found your video. This is brilliant and very well explained -- thanks!
Once again, I find your tutorial very informative and helpful to my learning. It is a well prepared lecture. Compact with info but clear to understand. I hope more people will benefit from watching your channel. I am surprised that your channel didn't show up despite I had tried many different keywords. Would you please making a video of the Spanish "T" and "P"? To my ears, Spanish T sounds like an English D, and Spanish P sounds like an English B to me. Thanks.
Thank you very much for the kind comments. Yes, the p, t, and k of Spanish sound much like b, d, and g of other languages, such as English. This is because Spanish p, t, and k are pronounced without any accompanying puff of air. They have much less tension and energy than in English. I have made a video on Spanish p, t, and k. It is one of my older videos, so it isn't quite as new-looking, but it is very accurate. Here it is: th-cam.com/video/qapXCrr-Hpw/w-d-xo.html I will update p, t, and k with a new version soon.
I am a native English speaker. I have been studying Spanish for 20 years and have been fluent for 13 years, but my accent isn't perfect. I just discovered this video today and will probably need to go thru each and every letter on your channel to figure out what exactly i need to do to improve. This is the most useful explanation I have ever seen on this topic. You use just the right amount of academic language to be useful, but not so much as to be overwhelming. Thank you for helping native English speakers like me to bring their Spanish pronunciation to the next level!!
Thank you for your kind words. I'm so happy you found this useful. If you want to go sound-by-sound, I recommend going through my "Core Phonetics and Phonology" playlist.
This is the best explanation of the Spanish D pronunciation that I’ve found. It’s hard trying to explain to non Spanish speakers that, yes, the Spanish D actually presents different variants of the D sound. Thanks for the video.
I don’t know if it’s something normal to say, but when I found your videos I sent a link to a friend with a comment "I’m in love". But I AM totally in love with your channel! :) I spent hours watching and rewatching your videos and I would have watched them all in one go if I had enough brain capacity to assimilate it all at once. But I intend to watch and rewatch them all and recommend them to other people. What you have here is SO much more clear and complete than everything else I could find on pronunciation. Me encanta tu estilo minimalista e idealmente eficaz, ojalá todo el TH-cam fuera así. También me encanta tu voz, tu manera de hablar es muy calmante y placentera, es fácil escucharte todo el día. Y cuando pronuncias las palabras en español las pausas entre palabras son ideales como para poder repetir las palabras (pero bastante cortas para no aburrirse si no estás repitiendo). Muchas gracias!
This is the reason why Spanish speakers are mocking at Nicki Minaj’s Spanish pronunciation in the song “Tusa” because she says “pero hice toro ese llanto por nara” when she should have said “pero hice todo ese llanto por nada”. Great video! Hopefully thousands of English speakers will improve so much their pronunciation thanks to this video!
Wow this video blew my mind! Spanish is my first language, I struggled to pronounce the English interdental TH, the,they, to my surprise this sound appears in the Spanish word Cada,(which is a high frequency word) I hadn't realized this till I watch this video!! Amazing content!
Una vez, cuando dije la palabra "todo", un amigo Mexicano me dijo que oyó la palabra "toro". Fue hace varios años pero aún estoy forcejeando arreglar mi problema con "d". Ésta es la mejor explicación sobre la pronunciación de la letra d que he oído nunca. Me fue fenomenal. Ya estoy deseando ver cada uno de sus videos. Liked & Subscribed. ¡Muchísimas gracias por el contenido genial!
Usar exactamente el sonido de th son para principiantes. La d suave es algo que sé, no son lo mismo. La lengua no debería tocar los dientes en español, almenos que sea castellano, por la (z) o (c). Tengo español como idioma nativo y intenté usar la th para remplazar la d y me resultó muy agotador. Y también escucho un accento muy extranjero.
Great job! I’m happy I found this video. I am a native speaker and was looking for a good explanation of the different pronunciations of [d] sound. After watching several other videos on the pronunciation of the [d] In Spanish, yours is the most simple yet understandable. Thank you!
Exacto. no sabía que la estaba pronunciando mal (la "d") hasta que dos amigas me lo mencionaron EN LA MISMA SEMANA...después de llevar casi 10 años hablando español 🥲. Me encanta este video (y este canal por lo general)
This is normal. In American English there are 5 or 6 /t/ sounds. Ask a typical American, and they are completely unaware that there is more than one /t/ sound. We are each fluent in our native language, but we manipulate the details of the language subconsciously.
It doesn't really affect your discussion but I thought I'd point out that the symbol for the "th" sound (voiced dental fricative) is actually the lower case letter "eth" which used to be in Old English and is still used in Icelandic.
While trying to use voice to text on Google translate, my phone would hear a word like "Todos" as "Toros". Now I understand why and am working to correct my pronunciation. Thanks again.
@@tenminutespanish Yes it actually does. It now recognizes my "Todos" as "Everybody" rather than "Bulls". It's also helped voice to text recognize other words such as "Codos" which was coming up as "Coros". I really thought I was saying these words correctly and that voice to text was at fault but it turns out it was catching something that I wasn't aware of. Sometimes voice to text is truly just frustrating and wrong but in some cases it can be a good way to identify pronunciation problems. I'm 4 months into studying Spanish and I'm glad that I've caught this now rather than later. You're video couldn't have been better put together. Thank you again.
@@tenminutespanish Please do! Fairly new subscriber here and your content is amazing and so necessary. I spent MONTHS looking for a simple, non-phD-requiring channel that would explain these concepts on phonology and I have no idea how I stumbled across this channel but I am so happy that I did. I'm surprised that there aren't more people subscribed to this channel. Thank you for everything you've done so far! Definitely looking forward to what is in store.
Hi, my name is Lukas. I live in USA but the my country of origin is Poland. I recently started learning Spanish using Pimsleur method (I like it it very much) with a help of your channel. A friend of mine, who is much further in the journey than me, recommended your videos. They help me tremendously with my pronunciation. Fortunately I can roll my "rs" easily due to my native language being Polish, but I still struggle with some sounds. I would love some additional tutorial on how to pronounce the "soft b" in practical terms, meaning how to produce the sound of it without my lips closing. Sometimes with some words I do this perfectly, other times I fail to keep my lips from closing. Any exercises? My second struggle is pronouncing interdental d after a letter s in word compositions like "mas despacio". The speakers in the course seem to pronounce it as a dental d. I find it to be more natural that way. Am I hearing it wrong or they are saying it very softly, so I take it for a dental d. In Polish we pronounce d, b, w (v sound) in a quite hard, plosive and aspirated way. Thank you for all your work, we need more videos!
Regarding interdental d, It's important to realize that pronunciation "rules" are observations about how people speak under normal conditions. Natives frequently pronounce differently from the "rules" when they're trying to speak particularly clearly. This is especially true of approximant/fricative b,d,g. People often pronounce them as stops when speaking slowly, or emphatically, or articulating carefully. I think it's likely that speakers in your Spanish language course are trying to speak very clearly. This, combined with the phonetic context of d preceded by s may result in a more dental d sound.
The d can sometimes be silent whenever it’s between 2 vowels at the end of the word instead of pronouncing the soft d fir example (Calmado) some people will say (Calmao)
Thank you for this contribution. Yes, this is a dialectal variation. I don't describe it here because it is specific to certain dialects and is not considered standard pronunciation.
Hello! I found this video very helpful. I looked it up because I struggle with the 'rd' consonant cluster. So in 'ordenador' and 'desorden' the 'd' here should be pronounced as a dental 'd', correct?
Thank you so much. I'm glad you liked the video. The d in the rd cluster is interdental. d is only dental at the beginning of an utterance, or after n or l. I have a whole video on the rd consonant cluster. You should check it out.
Does the interdental d equal the English th sound in words like the or weather? I have problems pronouncing it because in my native tongues there is no distinction between those sounds. A video about the pronunciation of the interdental d would be great.
Hi , I want to ask if the D in the beginning of an WORD is dental or interdental . I want to know if this rule regarding D is apply to B , V , and ALL the OTHER LETTERS you said has the SAME RULE REGARDING UTTERANCE , but I would like to know if the rule with these letters is same when it appears in a BEGINNING OF A WORD TOO .
The rule for pronunciation doesn't depend on whether the letter appears at the beginning of a word. All utterances are pronounced as if they were one long word. In this phrase -- la dama -- the /d/ is at the beginning of a word, but it is in the middle of the utterance, because it comes after the word la. The phrase "la dama" is pronounced as a single word "ladama". So, it doesn't matter that the /d/ comes at the beginning of a word. It comes in the middle of an utterance. There is no rule about how Spanish /d/ is pronounced at the beginning of a word. Only the beginning of an utterance. This is true also for b/v, and g.
I was understanding up until the “utterance” part. Then, suddenly, none of it made sense to me. I wish there was a more clear definition of an “utterance” I mean, maybe that was clear but I’m just not understanding. Like…………… Do you just pronounce the first d, if it’s at the beginning of the first word in a sentence, as “dental d” or…? I don’t get it 😩
An utterance is any sound or string of sounds without any pauses (could be one word or even a few sentences if someone was speaking fast without pausing)
Is there a difference between how the dental obstruent [d] and the Spanish t are pronounced? For both sounds the tip of the tongue touches the back of the upper front teeth and cuts off the air flow. I find myself pronouncing both of these sounds the same.
I don't have any general grammar lessons. I feel like there's tons of information on general grammar on the internet, and I don't want to just duplicate stuff that can be found elsewhere. I mostly do phonetics and phonology, because pronunciation is not accurately taught anywhere, as far as I can tell.
Wow, what an excellent video! I've been looking for such a thorough explanation of the different "d" sounds in Spanish for some time now, and finally found your video. This is brilliant and very well explained -- thanks!
I'm so glad to hear that you like the video. Thanks for your comment.
Thank you! You've made it a lot clearer to understand how I'm supposed to say the words properly.
I'm so happy you found this helpful.
That would be a good band name- "Alveolar Flap" Okay maybe I study too long...wait-
"Alveolar Flap and the Trills" 8-D
Best comment ever.
Wow I'm from Spain and this video is worth gold!!! I wish there were videos like these for Spanish people learning English
Thank you for your kind comment.
Once again, I find your tutorial very informative and helpful to my learning. It is a well prepared lecture. Compact with info but clear to understand. I hope more people will benefit from watching your channel. I am surprised that your channel didn't show up despite I had tried many different keywords. Would you please making a video of the Spanish "T" and "P"? To my ears, Spanish T sounds like an English D, and Spanish P sounds like an English B to me. Thanks.
Thank you very much for the kind comments. Yes, the p, t, and k of Spanish sound much like b, d, and g of other languages, such as English. This is because Spanish p, t, and k are pronounced without any accompanying puff of air. They have much less tension and energy than in English. I have made a video on Spanish p, t, and k. It is one of my older videos, so it isn't quite as new-looking, but it is very accurate. Here it is: th-cam.com/video/qapXCrr-Hpw/w-d-xo.html I will update p, t, and k with a new version soon.
I am a native English speaker. I have been studying Spanish for 20 years and have been fluent for 13 years, but my accent isn't perfect.
I just discovered this video today and will probably need to go thru each and every letter on your channel to figure out what exactly i need to do to improve.
This is the most useful explanation I have ever seen on this topic. You use just the right amount of academic language to be useful, but not so much as to be overwhelming.
Thank you for helping native English speakers like me to bring their Spanish pronunciation to the next level!!
Thank you for your kind words. I'm so happy you found this useful. If you want to go sound-by-sound, I recommend going through my "Core Phonetics and Phonology" playlist.
This is the best explanation of the Spanish D pronunciation that I’ve found. It’s hard trying to explain to non Spanish speakers that, yes, the Spanish D actually presents different variants of the D sound. Thanks for the video.
I'm very happy you liked the video!
I don’t know if it’s something normal to say, but when I found your videos I sent a link to a friend with a comment "I’m in love". But I AM totally in love with your channel! :)
I spent hours watching and rewatching your videos and I would have watched them all in one go if I had enough brain capacity to assimilate it all at once. But I intend to watch and rewatch them all and recommend them to other people.
What you have here is SO much more clear and complete than everything else I could find on pronunciation.
Me encanta tu estilo minimalista e idealmente eficaz, ojalá todo el TH-cam fuera así. También me encanta tu voz, tu manera de hablar es muy calmante y placentera, es fácil escucharte todo el día. Y cuando pronuncias las palabras en español las pausas entre palabras son ideales como para poder repetir las palabras (pero bastante cortas para no aburrirse si no estás repitiendo).
Muchas gracias!
Thank you so much. I'm so happy you like my videos.
This video really deserves more views. Thank you for making it.
Thank you!
I can't believe I've been pronouncing all /d/ sounds with the dental [d]. Thank you for making this!
This is the reason why Spanish speakers are mocking at Nicki Minaj’s Spanish pronunciation in the song “Tusa” because she says “pero hice toro ese llanto por nara” when she should have said “pero hice todo ese llanto por nada”.
Great video! Hopefully thousands of English speakers will improve so much their pronunciation thanks to this video!
That's a great observation! I can't stand Nicki Minaj, so I'm unaware of that song, gracias a Dios.
Wow this video blew my mind! Spanish is my first language, I struggled to pronounce the English interdental TH, the,they, to my surprise this sound appears in the Spanish word Cada,(which is a high frequency word) I hadn't realized this till I watch this video!! Amazing content!
Thank you! I'm very happy you liked the video.
It's not the same. As a Spanish speaker I'd say it's wrong to pronounce the "soft d "with your upper teeth.
Una vez, cuando dije la palabra "todo", un amigo Mexicano me dijo que oyó la palabra "toro". Fue hace varios años pero aún estoy forcejeando arreglar mi problema con "d".
Ésta es la mejor explicación sobre la pronunciación de la letra d que he oído nunca. Me fue fenomenal. Ya estoy deseando ver cada uno de sus videos.
Liked & Subscribed.
¡Muchísimas gracias por el contenido genial!
Muchísimas gracias por el comentario. Me alegra muchísimo saber que te haya gustado.
Me súper identifico contigo! esta misma cosa me pasó este mes.
Usar exactamente el sonido de th son para principiantes. La d suave es algo que sé, no son lo mismo. La lengua no debería tocar los dientes en español, almenos que sea castellano, por la (z) o (c). Tengo español como idioma nativo y intenté usar la th para remplazar la d y me resultó muy agotador. Y también escucho un accento muy extranjero.
I'm surprised you dont have more views and subs. Thank you so much for the informative videos.
Thank you for your kind comment.
Great job! I’m happy I found this video. I am a native speaker and was looking for a good explanation of the different pronunciations of [d] sound. After watching several other videos on the pronunciation of the [d] In Spanish, yours is the most simple yet understandable. Thank you!
Thank you for your kind words!
Wow que bueno!! Llevo años hablando español pero nadie me había explicado esto hasta que vi este vídeo. Muy útil. Muchísimas gracias!!
Me alegro tanto de que te haya gustado el video.
Exacto. no sabía que la estaba pronunciando mal (la "d") hasta que dos amigas me lo mencionaron EN LA MISMA SEMANA...después de llevar casi 10 años hablando español 🥲. Me encanta este video (y este canal por lo general)
I'm a native spanish speaker and I'm here to learn how to pronounce the english D more clearly.
I'm sorry I don't have a video for you. I only make videos about the Spanish language. I don't know how to teach English phonetics. :-(
the way this dude is way better than my spanish teacher 😭
honestly as a native spanish speaker I always thought there was just one sound of the letter D xd
This is normal. In American English there are 5 or 6 /t/ sounds. Ask a typical American, and they are completely unaware that there is more than one /t/ sound. We are each fluent in our native language, but we manipulate the details of the language subconsciously.
I guess that's why English speakers hear meda meda when they say mira mira.
It doesn't really affect your discussion but I thought I'd point out that the symbol for the "th" sound (voiced dental fricative) is actually the lower case letter "eth" which used to be in Old English and is still used in Icelandic.
Thanks for this bit of information!
While trying to use voice to text on Google translate, my phone would hear a word like "Todos" as "Toros". Now I understand why and am working to correct my pronunciation. Thanks again.
What an interesting observation! If course, that makes a lot of sense. Does it work better when you use an interdental d?
@@tenminutespanish Yes it actually does. It now recognizes my "Todos" as "Everybody" rather than "Bulls". It's also helped voice to text recognize other words such as "Codos" which was coming up as "Coros". I really thought I was saying these words correctly and that voice to text was at fault but it turns out it was catching something that I wasn't aware of. Sometimes voice to text is truly just frustrating and wrong but in some cases it can be a good way to identify pronunciation problems. I'm 4 months into studying Spanish and I'm glad that I've caught this now rather than later. You're video couldn't have been better put together. Thank you again.
I'm so glad to hear you found the video helpful.
Amazing attention to detail. Love this channel!
Thank you!
Please make more! Great videos
Thank you so much. Your explanation is great 👍🏻👍🏻
@@shinypearls4 You're welcome. I'm so happy you liked the video.
I never comment but this makes so much sense now. Thanks a lot!
I'm so happy you liked the video.
Did you ever end up making the video about dialectal variation of the interdental d? Can’t seem to find it, but would love to see it!
Great work!
I have not made that video yet. Thank you for the encouragement.
@@tenminutespanish Please do! Fairly new subscriber here and your content is amazing and so necessary. I spent MONTHS looking for a simple, non-phD-requiring channel that would explain these concepts on phonology and I have no idea how I stumbled across this channel but I am so happy that I did. I'm surprised that there aren't more people subscribed to this channel. Thank you for everything you've done so far! Definitely looking forward to what is in store.
@@gcyrus25 Thank you so much. Comments like these keep me going.
It's smart explaining.
Thanks
This is SUCH a great video
I'm so glad you like it!
"Dura"
I'll probably be well understood using the D as zi do in English. Most foreigners have a accent
Very clear explanation.
Thank you.
So helpful, thank you. Subbed
I'm very happy you liked the video.
Thank you sooo much for the video!! It helped me a lot :)
You're welcome. I'm very glad you liked it.
Hi, my name is Lukas. I live in USA but the my country of origin is Poland. I recently started learning Spanish using Pimsleur method (I like it it very much) with a help of your channel. A friend of mine, who is much further in the journey than me, recommended your videos. They help me tremendously with my pronunciation. Fortunately I can roll my "rs" easily due to my native language being Polish, but I still struggle with some sounds. I would love some additional tutorial on how to pronounce the "soft b" in practical terms, meaning how to produce the sound of it without my lips closing. Sometimes with some words I do this perfectly, other times I fail to keep my lips from closing. Any exercises? My second struggle is pronouncing interdental d after a letter s in word compositions like "mas despacio". The speakers in the course seem to pronounce it as a dental d. I find it to be more natural that way. Am I hearing it wrong or they are saying it very softly, so I take it for a dental d. In Polish we pronounce d, b, w (v sound) in a quite hard, plosive and aspirated way.
Thank you for all your work, we need more videos!
Regarding interdental d, It's important to realize that pronunciation "rules" are observations about how people speak under normal conditions. Natives frequently pronounce differently from the "rules" when they're trying to speak particularly clearly. This is especially true of approximant/fricative b,d,g. People often pronounce them as stops when speaking slowly, or emphatically, or articulating carefully. I think it's likely that speakers in your Spanish language course are trying to speak very clearly. This, combined with the phonetic context of d preceded by s may result in a more dental d sound.
@@tenminutespanish Thank you, I will pay more attention to it and keep watching of your videos.
Thanks alot
The d can sometimes be silent whenever it’s between 2 vowels at the end of the word instead of pronouncing the soft d fir example (Calmado) some people will say (Calmao)
Thank you for this contribution. Yes, this is a dialectal variation. I don't describe it here because it is specific to certain dialects and is not considered standard pronunciation.
That's a dialect.
Muchas gracias!
¡De nada! Me alegra que te haya gustado.
Hello! I found this video very helpful. I looked it up because I struggle with the 'rd' consonant cluster. So in 'ordenador' and 'desorden' the 'd' here should be pronounced as a dental 'd', correct?
Thank you so much. I'm glad you liked the video. The d in the rd cluster is interdental. d is only dental at the beginning of an utterance, or after n or l. I have a whole video on the rd consonant cluster. You should check it out.
Great!
Thanks this is very helpful 👍👍👍
Thank you for a very clear explanation of the question
You're welcome. I'm happy you liked the video.
Does the interdental d equal the English th sound in words like the or weather?
I have problems pronouncing it because in my native tongues there is no distinction between those sounds. A video about the pronunciation of the interdental d would be great.
Yes. The same th as in weather.
Incredible explanation.
Thank you
Genius!
Hi , I want to ask if the D in the beginning of an WORD is dental or interdental . I want to know if this rule regarding D is apply to B , V , and ALL the OTHER LETTERS you said has the SAME RULE REGARDING UTTERANCE , but I would like to know if the rule with these letters is same when it appears in a BEGINNING OF A WORD TOO .
The rule for pronunciation doesn't depend on whether the letter appears at the beginning of a word. All utterances are pronounced as if they were one long word. In this phrase -- la dama -- the /d/ is at the beginning of a word, but it is in the middle of the utterance, because it comes after the word la. The phrase "la dama" is pronounced as a single word "ladama". So, it doesn't matter that the /d/ comes at the beginning of a word. It comes in the middle of an utterance.
There is no rule about how Spanish /d/ is pronounced at the beginning of a word. Only the beginning of an utterance. This is true also for b/v, and g.
@@tenminutespanish Alright, same with Nn right ?
@@danielshalev50 I do not know what you mean by "Nn".
@@tenminutespanish the letter Nn.
@@danielshalev50 Do you mean ñ?
I was understanding up until the “utterance” part. Then, suddenly, none of it made sense to me.
I wish there was a more clear definition of an “utterance” I mean, maybe that was clear but I’m just not understanding. Like……………
Do you just pronounce the first d, if it’s at the beginning of the first word in a sentence, as “dental d” or…? I don’t get it 😩
An utterance is any sound or string of sounds without any pauses (could be one word or even a few sentences if someone was speaking fast without pausing)
An utterance is any string of speech between pauses. The beginning of an utterance is any time you begin speaking after a pause.
Im sorry but I have watched this video like 7 times and still don’t get how to say the other D (not the Th one)
Place your tongue low on the back of your upper front teeth.
Por fin. Lo entiendo! Bien hecho!
Me alegro mucho que te haya ayudado.
Is there a difference between how the dental obstruent [d] and the Spanish t are pronounced? For both sounds the tip of the tongue touches the back of the upper front teeth and cuts off the air flow. I find myself pronouncing both of these sounds the same.
[d] is voiced, [t] is voiceless
@@tenminutespanish ahh I see. Thank you, man. I really appreciate the help.
@@teamo8033 You're welcome.
Dang! Muy Bien Senor. Gracias
Glad you liked the video.
Perhaps you could do a video on how to perfect the Spanish apical s?
Sadly, I have no expertise in apical s.
i think he means the Spanish (Spain) S, it is very distinctive and only used in the northern half of spain.
@@chileanguyfleegman mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmhhhhhh. Also some latin American countries
Are there lessons on verbs
I don't have any general grammar lessons. I feel like there's tons of information on general grammar on the internet, and I don't want to just duplicate stuff that can be found elsewhere. I mostly do phonetics and phonology, because pronunciation is not accurately taught anywhere, as far as I can tell.
So helpful 🤩
I'm very happy that you liked the video.
chileans ignore the interdental one as if it doesn't exist.
no creo que sea correcto lo que dijiste
You provide 1 on 1 training? Facetime/Skype
I'm sorry. I don't do any private lessons.