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In Spanish B and V sounds exactly the same. H and J are strictly different. H is the only silent letter. Let me remind you that I was answering to your comment
by narag 5y ago
In Spanish B and V sounds exactly the same. H and J are strictly different. H is the only silent letter.
Let me remind you that I was answering to your comment where you say:
...read signs and essays aloud without having the faintest idea of what they're saying.
This can be done just learning the independent sound of each letter and the six exceptions that I mentioned.
Graphic accent rules are a bit more complex, but we also learn them by the time we're seven or eight years, so we can use in our writing. They're not essential for reading.
- Phrodo_00 5y ago> In Spanish B and V sounds exactly the same Depends on accent. Some regions do diferenciate. Same with S/C/Z
- narag 5y agoThe person I was responding to said that German can be read without knowing the meaning, unlike Spanish. That's not correct. Depends on accent. Some regions do diferenciate. Maybe because, as I wrote in a previous comment, they speak another language that does have different sounds. But again: it's irrelevant for a foreigner learning to read standard Spanish. When you learn English they won't teach you cockney, they teach you some standard pronuntiation.