"Yo nunca le daré por perdido"

Question

How do you pronounce "Yo nunca le daré por perdido" (I will never give up on you) ? It's for a song. Thanks!

Welcome to the forum :) - 00b6f46c, Apr 18, 2011

Answer 1

Hi Amanda,

This is how I pronounce it :

yo non-ka lai daray por per-dedo

I hope this helps

*noon-ka, *Lay, *dar-AY *pair-dedo if you're going by English phonetics. - RommpinCrab, Apr 18, 2011

yo nun-ka lei da-rei por per-deedo - samdie, Apr 18, 2011

le and daré don't have the diphtong "ei" sound. le in english is more like leh, and daré is da-REH. - Deanski, Apr 18, 2011

Thank you! This helped so much. I only take Italian, so I barely know anything about Spanish. - amanda514, Apr 19, 2011

Answer 2

Welcome to the forum!

You can put this in http://translate.google.com and click the "Listen" button below the entry box.

Answer 3

Lovely, Lovely, RommpinCrab, and I all offered "phonetic" transcriptions (more like "sloppy approximations" than , real transcriptions. Mine is, of course, the most accurate (for American English) but they are all poor approximations (one cannot accurately represent Spanish pronunciation by using English spelling/sounds).

Follow instead, the suggestion of Pesta and simply listen to the Spanish.

Answer 4

Just a suggestion, but if you are telling someone that you'll never give up on them, wouldn't 'te' be more appropriate than 'le'?