Are you in the UK? In the US it would sound very off to hear “junta” with a hard “j”. That doesn’t mean that English speakers try to fully reproduce how a Span

Are you in the UK? In the US it would sound very off to hear “junta” with a hard “j”. That doesn’t mean that English speakers try to fully reproduce how a Spanish speaker would pronounce the word and I think that is appropriate. If you are speaking one language to completely switch pronunciation for one word just breaks the flow of speech. Some compromise can be found.