Spanish Latin American Pronunciation Video 2: The Spanish Vowels

This is the second of a multi-part series on Latin American Spanish pronunciation. The goal is to get familiar with the sounds of Spanish and the IPA symbols. You'll then be able to learn them faster, either through your own studies or through my pronunciation trainers. More links below:
Flashcard Designs for Teaching Yourself Pronunciation: blog.fluent-fo...
My Pronunciation Trainers: fluent-forever...
Anki Language Learning: ankilanguagelea...
More Anki Decks, including Spanish Pronunciation: speakada.com
Reddit's Anki Language Learning Community: / ankilanguagelearning
A super detailed discussion of the IPA: • Pronunciation Tutorial...

[@leydidiyt]

Your work is amazing 🤩! But, as a Spanish speaker, I have to say our /a/ is not a spread /ɐ/ as in "bUs", but the difference is in that the jaw drops more. I've listened from more fronted /a/ to more back /ɑ/ As and people will perfectly understand cause there's no other vowel with which it can be mistaken. In unstressed position it sounds like /ɐ/ as in "bUs" or even like schwa /ə/ as in "About."

[@ramzy-6566]

Thank you so much. for Spanish Vowels.

[@FluentForeverApp]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching our videos. 😃

[@alexandracalvario9122]

Mi amigo me recomendó este video, hola keith ☺️👍

[@KeithHoranParkour]

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[@FluentForeverApp]

Happy to help! 🙌

[@gabrielromig3090]

Aye!!!! We need another gabe !!!!! Eskettit!!!

[@FluentForeverApp]

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[@Mirador1]

The Spanish O is between the English OH and AW, just like its E which is between AY and EH. By the way, I would add two more vowels, the E in "Línea" and the O in "Coacción" which seem to be more raised, like closer to I and U respectively, so they'd be 7 vowels.

[@FluentForeverApp]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

[@oliver_siegel]

Amazing video i learned soo much

[@languagelearner2268]

Hi, thanks for video. Some good information. One thing I would suggest is a little slower on the pronounciation and also taking a little more time in between them. The concepts you talk about are some what difficult, in that they're not that familiar. This may just be me, but I found it difficult to keep up and properly pronounce and follow before you began the next example.

[@evanhamilton7105]

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[@Vitorruy1]

/u/ is a unrounded [w] and there's no long vowel so no [i:] and short vowels becoming long before voiced consonants.

[@ketsalmishtlemikkapantlits3743]

7:22 *¡Olvidaste el tilde en "día"! :'v*

[@DjAngelloFerreira]

Hi friend Gabriel Wyner. Do you use a special book for English Phonetics vowels o consonants? Thanks.

[@HolySoliDeoGloria]

What about the \ou\ strong-weak diphthong, as in estadounidense?

[@HolySoliDeoGloria]

*****: Thank you, Gabriel. I believe there's no pronunciation rule that says that it is not pronounced as a diphthong. The diphthong \ou\ DOES exist in Spanish, but only in directly (or nearly so) adopted foreign words and in words created from combinations such as this. So one might say that \ou\ doesn't "naturally" occur in Spanish, but it does exist and it is pronounced as a diphthong when it occurs. See, e.g., www.enla.net/diptongo-ou/.

[@Emile.gorgonZola]

That's not a real diphthong... since it's /ou/ rather than /ow/...

[@Mirador1]

@@Emile.gorgonZola They are equivalent, since /ou/ is actually [o̞u̯], and [u̯] is the same as [w], just like [i̯] is the same as [j].

[@veronicaeskaros3244]

The [e] vowel is the first of the diphthong [eI]

[@Mirador1]

Not exactly, it is more open than that one.