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It's also /xo'se/ in Mexico as far as I can tell. I'm not Mexican but I know a lot of Mexicans and am pretty sure that's how they'd pronounce it. I would be ve
by School-Cotton 5y ago
It's also /xo'se/ in Mexico as far as I can tell. I'm not Mexican but I know a lot of Mexicans and am pretty sure that's how they'd pronounce it.
I would be very surprised if the "Spanish J" is silent anywhere; the person you're replying to almost certainly just made a mistake.
- kergonath 5y agoFrom my experience, native English speakers have a very hard time pronouncing the Spanish /j/ (or the German /ch/, for that matter, or even the French /r/), so they just pronounce it as a somewhat stressed /h/ (for lack of a better term).
- School-Cotton 5y ago“ch” in German actually represents two different sounds: e.g. the one in “ich” and the one in “Bauch”. I’m a native English speaker and I find those extremely difficult to distinguish. But the French r is fine. (I spoke French to a near-native level 15 years ago; it’s probably decayed to “advanced intermediate” by now).