true but I still can't speak Spanish :(

yeah you need a one to one conversational sessions. It is the only way

+gphycics maybe back in the day, but with the technology available today that is not true. There are apps that check your pronunciation and google translators and KZfaq videos that explain every single nuance you can find. You just need to know how to ask the right questions, or rather, how to Search the right sources.

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Daria Anosova Adorable girl ❤

yeah , i like it too

Yes she can say okay all day long. People complain too much.

AGREED! don't listen to the haters. It's a way to ground yourself since you're going back and forth between two languages.

Bigus Dickus I'm from Spain and that's true I pronounce also both like a y.

I was also taught the same, and I hear many Spanish speakers using the "y" sound when pronouncing 'll'. Very confusing for learners.

@@chukydecieza7767 I studied Castellano in Spain but I found that it was just like what Ana said... that the /LL/ sound was more between the English /J/ and /Y/; then again I was in Galicia studying--- so that's a different beast altogether LOL 😂

@@snmobley03 Aunque si que es verdad que es mas correcto hacer esa diferenciacion yo soy de Burgos, que es la cuna del castellano, y te aseguro que nadie de por aqui nota ninguna diferencia cuando escuchamos esas letras. A si que tampoco os comais la cabeza y permitios el lujo de pronunciar ambas como "y" y conseguireis un acento español neutro.

Pronunce it like dy with a short Y like in During

Yo también! Jaja

true

okay

Yap 👍🏻

me,too

me too

Haha agree!!

Ghea Merry Angel q

Muchas gracias a ti :)

Butterfly Spanish Loooove this girl ! adorable ! ❤👍😘

Try to pronounce this comment right, and you'll get the context of this video😎

In these words ( estoy muy ) how the letter y is pronounced and why.

This is what I'm looking for. Thanks!

El Bandito oœ

I pronounced "Ajow us" 😂😂

You can´t say "Me trying to learn Spanish". You actually have to say I´m trying to learn Spanish.

@@freddysanchez2047 It is called "meme talk", buddy.

@@ElBandito I was going to pop in and say it's narrative form, but meme talk is also correct lol.

+Monika Kääriäinen ¡ehhhh! ¡Qué felicidad ver tus lindos comentarios! Tus palabras son como el café, me llenan de energía y entusiasmo y felicidad :)

+Butterfly Spanish I am happy to know that. You really are doing a great job and helping many people with your explanations. It is the best way to learn a language - with a smile and good emotions. Just perfect! :D

I don´t understand please help me: the problem is with the double LL , so how to pronounce it right as "Jobiendo" or "Yobiendo" and if its still is pronounced is as 'J' then why when you represent yourself you don't say : Me Jamo Ana but you say Me Yamo Ana? please could you explain that important thing to me ?

Lakrago I thought she said me ñamo ana.... (nyamo....)

@@ButterflySpanish hi.. I like to know ur official full name.. Can u plz tell.

+inanna ashtoreth-ishtar :)

Did you achieve your goal?

Hows your goal

Sorry, just seeing these. Unfortunately I had to interrupt my study of Spanish because of my job situation, though I was making decent gains for about 4 months after this comment. I do plan to pick it back up eventually.

@@sonofthunder79 such a shame ): you would've been fluent if you continued i hope you achieve your goal

Yea true

x2 :v

También la mía y me pongo a ver esto 😂 me gusta

My native language is Spanish, I don't know why I'm watching this but I like it.

😎mejor corregir unas palabras

Hablo inglés

Muchas gracias. :) Espero que estés aprendiendo mucho.

People say it when they're not confident at speaking.

Yes 👍

i come to this problem often, some spanish courses i take pronounce llamos like.. jamos and some sound like yamos.. i cant tell which is correct

@@Bobbbbbyhigh Both are correct, although some regions will use one more than the other. I pronounce it like y in yard, like German or Slavic j, as in ja or Jan, and this is common in northern Mexico, including by those who speak no English. Sometimes in emphatic speech, we exaggerate this sound and it may sound like dy, like Serbian dj, as in Djordje, or like BR Portuguese d in dia or dinheiro. In other countries or in very formal context (like an old school politician giving a speech) this dy sound becomes more common. Honestly, if you use dy or y, few people will notice, as it will even be variable from speaker to speaker. If you are ENG or German speaker just use y, and simplify your life. Unless you are living in ARG or URU, there make it SH. Sho no sé si shegó--that's how it it sounds there, and there is no difference in emphatic speech.

Marcos Dean Here you have an exception of "H h" pronunciation: Hámster. lema.rae.es/dpd/srv/search?key=h%E1mster

Marco Manrique Martí Lo sé, but I think it's better to tell someone that's learning Spanish that there aren't any exceptions so they don't get confused, especially if they speak a language where the "h" is not silent or only in a few words (hour, honest, honour, heir). But yeah, H's from other languages, like German or English, may not be that silent. "Sahara (the African desert)" is another example. Pero tampoco creo que haya muchos.

And rarely at the beginning of a name like Yvette. Some Spanish speaking people (females) have that name.

Great explanation!

In standard Spanish h is allways silent , but in some andalussian varieties , h got voiced in some words that formerly had an f sound in old hispanish My husband says jarto , jigo , jiguera , jarina ... , j stands for a voiced h . It is not standard , but travelling for southern spain you'll hear it .

The difference is between countries, in Mexico both "y" and "ll" sound like the "j" in english. In Argentina sound like the english "sh". In Spain sounds little different these two letters.

Sergio Luna Could you name a Spanish dialect which in your opinion is the most standardized one? The one which is easier to comprehend and which is more "learnable" for a foreigner and basically the one you should start with when learning Spanish? (like American among English dialects, Mandarin among Chinese dialects, etc.)

Bag full of crabs Well as a mexican I would say that mexican one, there are less grammatical conjugation than in Spain, and in Mexico we don't use the sound "th", in Spain they do in the "z" and "ce"-"ci". And since is the hispanic country with more population is the most common.

Sergio Luna Oh, I see. Thank you for your response, I'll consider that.

This was a good lesson for me also. My sister in law is from El Salvador. I remember how surprised I was when I first saw her children's names written down. Everyone pronounced their name with the English J sound, so I was very surprised when I learned they started with the letter Y.

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in some provinces, not the entire country, but yes, it's called yeismo

@@nolonger1186 In the most inhabited provinces, I mean most of the country, so ...

She actually mentioned that.

En Argentina se pronuncia como John. No como Sean

@@nolonger1186 Mas del 90%

"ll" in Spanish sounds like "sion" only in Argentina (and usually only in rioplatenese; the dialect that originates in the areas around Buenos Aires). In many countries in Central America (including Mexico) and the Caribbean the "ll" sounds more the "y" in "your". Both of these pronunciations are termed yeismo. However, not all Spanish speakers have adopted yeismo. My family is from Bolivia and there "ll" is pronounced like the "ll" in "millon". Any of the three pronunciations will be understood by a Spanish speaker, but, if you notice, I said people adopted yeismo. The "ll" pronunciation like in "million" would be considered the most proper to the Castillian language (as opposed to Galician or Catalan; otherwise known as Spanish) because that is the way it was pronounced in the historically Castillian areas of the Iberian peninsula. Yeismo is something that developed over time and space; both because it is simply easier to drop the "ll" sound for the "y" sound, and because as the Castillian language expanded some speakers adopting it could not distinguish between "ll" and "y". Interestingly, if you look at the map on the link below, you'll notice that in the Americas "ll" is concentrated in the Andes highlands and Paraguay. Some people propose the "ll" was conserved in these areas because the indigenous populations were an integral part of society there and the "ll" existed in those languages when they adopted Castillian. Equally interesting, at least in La Paz, is that the local indigenous language, Aymara, has no "rr" and you will often hear people pronounce "rr" as "z" or as "r" instead of "rr". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye%C3%ADsmo

@@carlosteran1023 damn.... so all these pronunciation is correct ! right ?

Claro que sí. Haré un video sobre cómo aprender español :)

Muchas gracias!

im also a filipino trying to learn español. hahaha. self study also. becoz its very expensive to hire a spanish language teacher

Hello I am a filipina. Can we help each other learning the spanish language?

@@bryanc2097It was included in old curriculum until it was abolished by the Philippine Government.

Just make something like j in jeans. We may change a bit from one word to another , but we are not conscious of it . Once you speak fast and fluent enough , you'll do it right , and if not , you'll have a slight accent which is nice .

Filipino Language adapted that.

don't be frustrated. since spanish is so widely adpated, that in the philippines we pronounce the 'll' with 'ly'. But we pronounce most of the letters of the alphabet practically the same. Pronouncing it with 'ly' sounds so much more elegant. But it doesn't really matter that much like what maruxa cabaleiro saco said, the pronunciation may vary from word to word or person to person.

yes

Also some english dialects drop their H’s.

Crtaći -- Srpski i Hrvatski qq

Nesto izmedju dj i j

SHUTUP!

dinamikanada4x4 also, if you travel, you'll hear other versions. In my country they're pronounced zh or sh (zh is like s in measure). I also know Spaniards who say ll as ly (sorta like lie in caliente) and y like in English.

Y and LL are pronounced like an English J only before a vowel in the same word, never at the end of a word. By the way, the officialy recomended names are "elle" and "ye"

Hi, Lidya. Pardon for the interference and, if the teacher Ana allows it to me, and that she corrects me if I am wrong, It is said *muchas gracias* [thank you very much] [or only *gracias* (thank you)] without mattering if it is to a man or to (several) men or to a woman or to women and, even, to a group of men and women. It is *muchas* and not *muchos* because the word *gracias* [thank(s) you] is feminine. In general, the nouns or the masculine words end with the letter *o* (vowel) if it is singular and, if it is plural, end in *os* ; for example, el *gato* [cat], el *carro* or el *auto* [car] in singular, and los *gatos* [cats], los *autos* [cars], in plural, respectively. The words are feminine when they end in *a* (vowel), if it is singular and, if it is plural finished in *as* ; for example the words la *gracia* , la *mesa* , la *casa* ,etc. in singular and, las *gracias*, las *mesas*, las *casas* etc., if they are in plural. But also many masculine words end in *e* (vowel) or in *es* if it is plural; for example *hombre* and *hombres* [man and men], respectively. The word *agua* [water] actually it is feminine for which the article would correspond it is *la*, but one prefers the masculine article *el* (el agua) in order that both equal vowels *a* are not joined: *la agua* . And this way it is equal for the feminine words that they begin with *a*, for example: el alma, el arca, el arte, etc. [soul, ark, art, etc.] and not la alma, la arca, la arte, etc.

Antuàn Reynoso Thank you for clearing up the el agua! I took Spanish 101 about 12 years ago and am trying to give myself a refresher course at home. I had completely forgotten about the feminine words beginning with A. Thanks!

Sally Studley Ok, estoy para lo que tú necesites, sólo házmelo saber!

Antuàn Reynoso : hey ... muchas gracias por tu... :)

dhea lovyou Ok, dhea, ¡de nada y encantado!.

+Fiona Chan why they have the same sound...

+gottlos7 no I get that, it's the pronunciation of both that I don't. From my observation sometimes it sounds like English J, sometimes like English Y. and I don't get how it could be in between these two sounds.

+Fiona Chan don't worry about that. just make sure your pronunciation is similar to this one (press listen button) translate.google.com/#es/es/ya%20ye%20yi%20yo%20yu best way to know if your pronunciation of YA YE YI YO YU is correct is if you ask a native speaker. maybe if you upload an audio of yourself just saying YA YE YI YO YU we can tell you.

+Fiona Chan Hi Fiona. IT may sound strange but yes sometimes we pronounce the "LL" or "Y" as the English "J" but it mainly happens when we speak fast or when to enunciate something but dondt worry because its the same thing.Sometimes you might hear Me llamo other times it might sound Me Jamo.Its the same thing.

@@FionaChan just don't make it as strong as J. It's like the sound you make in S with the word "pleasure". Actually, every Spanish speaking country has a different sound for LL and Y. Even in the same country we have some differences, and EVEN in the same city we have differences. I'm from Argentina, and I hear people who pronunce Y and LL as a SH, others pronunce them as Y in YEAR, and we have another sound which is difficult to explain in this comment, but it's very used in the north of Argentina, north of Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador; it's like the GL in Italian or the LH in Portuguese. I may have confused you more, haha but it's just for you to know that we have many different sounds for the same letter and we understand each other.

I can help you to improve your Spanish, I'm a Mexican guy and I'm trying to improve my English. If you want to share with me your knowledge about your native tongue, I'd be pleased to help you out too with my native language: Spanish. Here is my Facebook if you want to add me: Carlos Josué Seamanduras López. Regards! Take care, bye, bye!

By the way, I'm fifteen years old (almost sixteen, in February, 22nd) :).

Si, Senor. Indonesians wouldn't have to struggle with the vowels like English speakers. They're basically pronounced the same way. Iya kan? Jajaja.

Diven Adrienne LL = indonesian y, j = indonesian h, y = indonesian j, ch = indonesian c, q = indonesian k, c = indonesian s...gampang lah

+Alq +Alq "Salah besar" tadi gua belajar bahasa Jerman terlebih dahulu, ternyata gampangan bahasa Spanyol, JAJAJAJAJAJA

+Alq tapi kayaknya lu salah dah, LL itu J, Y itu I/IO

Setuju!

:)Qué felicidad que pienses eso.

+Sara Esquivel Originally, 'll' and 'y' are different sounds in Spanish. 'Ll' sounds similar to 'j' in English just softer in Spanish. Nowadays most people pronounce both as 'y'.

Yamo would be the correct 1

Use either. The "Y" sound can be hear between vowels ans the strong "J" sound after consonants or a pause: "allanar" /ayanar/, "conllevar" /conjeßar/, "dos llamas" /dos jamas/, "la llama" /la yama/.... despite my pronouncing «LL» different than «y-» and «hi-»: «hierba», «yerba» and «Lleras» have different initial sounds for me: /yerßba/, /jerßa/ and palatally /ʎeras/.