Spanish-Pronunciation+Activities

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**Accent Rhyme for Spanish**
My students had terrible trouble figuring out when to add written accents to words in Spanish, so I created this little poem to help them remember:

If a word ends with a vowel, n, or s The next-to-last syllable gets the stress! For everything else we stress the end And where a word breaks the rules--ACCENT! user:chericem1

[|Fonetiks - Free Online Pronunciation Guides with Instant Sound + Dictionary: English + 9 Languages] - Phenomenal site. Links to color-coded sound files pronunciation of vowels, dipthongs, etc., in MULTIPLE varieties of English (Australian, British, Welsh, etc.), French, & German, Italian, as well as many LCTLs, including Mandarin. Esp. good for ESL user:chericem1


 * Rolled Rs**

//Fox in Socks// by Dr. Seuss is a great book for helping students realize that they already know how to roll their Rs. Have them read the section of the book near the end about "Tweetle Beetles" as quickly as they can. The movements their tongues make in saying those words are the same ones their tongues need to make to roll Rs in Spanish. They just need to force larger quantities of air through their mouths when they say them. user:chericem1

[|Pronunciation Activities] - A list of different types of activities you can use to help students practice pronunciation user:chericem1

Spanish Pronunciation Activity
An activity to practice Spanish pronunciation user:whitesa6

[|Language Guide] - Students can listen to native speakers pronounce words from a variety of typical vocabulary categories.


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