How do you say 'banjo'?
Just doing lesson 4.12 and two words are without audio. One is 'banjo'. Same word in English, but how is it pronounced in Spanish?
I know from the rules it would be 'banho' (to an English person) but there are a number of imported words which keep their pronunciation, so I wondered if this was one?
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When I looked " banjo" up in the Real Academia Española it sent me to ...
banyo.
(Del ingl. banjo, de bandore, y este quizá del esp. bandurria).
- m. Instrumento musical de cuerda que se compone de una caja de resonancia redonda cubierta por una piel tensada, un mástil largo con trastes y un número variable de cuerdas que se hacen sonar con los dedos o con púa.
banjo, pronounced banho, according to yahoo
I'm gonna make up a symbol for that gargly k/h sound that Spanish makes for j or for g....let's see...kh will work.
/BAN-kho/
Just take the jo from José and make that sound after ban.
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