Hey guys! I'm Karin, your Spanish teacher from idiomaPRO.com, the fastest and most fun way to learn Spanish. Today we are going to do the third video in our pronunciation series in Spanish. We already learned the alphabet. Then we reviewed the vowel sounds. And now we're going to practice with the letters "C" and "G". But not only are you going to learn the letters "C" and "G"; you're going to master them like a PRO! Remember guys, if you like this lesson subscribe, give us a "like", and leave your comment below. Well guys, remember that the alphabet has two types of letters: the vowels (which are five in total: A, E, I, O, U) and the consonants (that is,
any letter that is not a vowel). Some of the consonants in Spanish can make different sounds depending on their position in a word or what letter follows it. Let's look at our first example: the letter C. We have the words "expensive" and "zero." Did you see that the "C" has different sounds
in these two words? When it's followed by an "A", an "O", or a "U", it has a strong sound. In this bar, when a "C" is in front of
an "A", "O", or "U", it's always strong! I'll show you. Let's see some examples
of words with strong sounds. House, color, path, neck, summit When a "C" is followed by an "E" or an "I" it has has a soft sound. Let's see the words zero, zebra, tape, and city. The "C" has a sound of an "S" in these words because it is followed by an "E" or an "I". -Hello, I'm the letter "E". I have an appointment. -Welcome. I am the letter "C" and I'm always very soft with the letter "E"
and with the letter "I". I think I need a massage too! Well, we have learned well
how the letter "C" is pronounced. We have strong "C" and we have soft "C". The letter "G", like the letter "C", also
has two forms of pronunciation. There is a soft "G" and a strong "G". Before the letters "A", "O", and "U", the letter "G" is soft. A soft "G" has the pronunciation of "Ga ..." as in cat, win, goal, rubber, worm, handsome. In front of an "E" or a letter "I",
the letter "G" has a strong sound. The strong "G" is similar to the sound that a "J" makes as we can see in the examples: people, moan, gypsy, gym. But here's a trick. If we want to have a soft "G"
(that is, the sound of "ga ...") in front of an "E" or an "I", we can place a "U" directly
after a "G". This is one of the few cases in Spanish that a vowel is silent. Here the "U" only serves to give
to the "G" a soft sound but the "U" is not pronounced. Let's look again at the examples of "ge" and "gi". people, moan, gypsy, gym. But when we have "GUE" or "GUI", watch how the sound of the "G" changes: war, cheetah, guitar, guide. You can see here that the "G" is soft and the "U" is not pronounced. In the case that we want to pronounce the "U", we put two dots on top of the "U"
(which is called umlaut). such as penguin, bilingual, shame. And to review everything we have learned,
Let's see some examples. How are these words pronounced? claw, twin, spin, fat, glove water, hamburger, takeoff, script, stork Well, guys, we're finishing today's lesson. In a next video, we will see the pronunciation
of other consonants. If you liked this video, share it with your friends, give us your "like" and leave a comment below. See you in the next lesson! Bye!