{"id":434,"date":"2012-06-01T14:51:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T14:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2013-08-19T12:25:03","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:25:03","slug":"the-words-which-can%e2%80%99t-be-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/the-words-which-can%e2%80%99t-be-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"The Words Which Can\u2019t Be Learned (Part I)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/spanish\/\">Spanish lessons<\/a> I knew that some words would stick in my head easier than others. What I didn\u2019t know it that some would seem impossible either to learn or to pronounce correctly. The most frustrating of these situations is when you know what the word is but just can\u2019t pronounce it the way you want to.<br \/>\nEach person who takes Spanish courses will find that they come across different pronunciation issues and here are 3 of those which sometimes make me feel bad. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Or\u00e9gano<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a Scot I don\u2019t have the same problems which a lot of gringos do with the letters \u201ca\u201d and \u201co\u201d at the end of Spanish words. We tend to cut these off pretty quickly anyway so the word doesn\u2019t end in a long drawn out \u201cooo\u201d as it does when some North Americans get a hold of it. The Scots \u201cnaw\u201d, for example,  sounds very similar to the Spanish \u201cno\u201d so when I started to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/spanish\/\">learn Spanish<\/a> I just imagined that I am speaking to a fellow Jock and I was fine. The problem with this word isn\u2019t the number of vowels in it either; it is the position of the accent. The simplest way to remember it is that you say it the same way North Americans do, not the British way. I still can\u2019t seem to ever get it right though.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.branchhome.com\/images\/large\/ptsh_oregano_grow_LRG.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started my Spanish lessons I knew that some words would stick in my head easier than others. What I didn\u2019t know it that some would seem impossible either to learn or to pronounce correctly. 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