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!

That would be a good band name- "Alveolar Flap" Okay maybe I study too long...wait- "Alveolar Flap and the Trills" 8-D

Thank you! You've made it a lot clearer to understand how I'm supposed to say the words properly.

Wow I'm from Spain and this video is worth gold!!! I wish there were videos like these for Spanish people learning English

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.

This video really deserves more views. Thank you for making it.

I'm surprised you dont have more views and subs. Thank you so much for the informative videos.

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 KZfaq 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!

I can't believe I've been pronouncing all /d/ sounds with the dental [d]. Thank you for making this!

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!!

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!

Please make more! Great videos

Amazing attention to detail. Love this channel!

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!

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.

Thank you sooo much for the video!! It helped me a lot :)

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!

Wow que bueno!! Llevo años hablando español pero nadie me había explicado esto hasta que vi este vídeo. Muy útil. Muchísimas 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!

honestly as a native spanish speaker I always thought there was just one sound of the letter D xd

I'm a native spanish speaker and I'm here to learn how to pronounce the english D more clearly.

I never comment but this makes so much sense now. Thanks a lot!

This is SUCH a great video

It's smart explaining. Thanks

I guess that's why English speakers hear meda meda when they say mira mira.

Thank you so much. Your explanation is great 👍🏻👍🏻

So helpful, thank you. Subbed

Great!

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.

Thanks this is very helpful 👍👍👍

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.

Thank you for a very clear explanation of the question

the way this dude is way better than my spanish teacher 😭

Genius!

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?

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.

Very clear explanation.

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!

Por fin. Lo entiendo! Bien hecho!

Incredible explanation.

Muchas gracias!

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)

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!

Dang! Muy Bien Senor. Gracias

Perhaps you could do a video on how to perfect the Spanish apical s?

So helpful 🤩

I'll probably be well understood using the D as zi do in English. Most foreigners have a accent

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.

"Dura"

Are there lessons on verbs

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 .

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)

So they are allophones for the same phoneme /d/?

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 😩

chileans ignore the interdental one as if it doesn't exist.

You provide 1 on 1 training? Facetime/Skype