remember where accent marks are placed

Question

I am having difficultly learning and remembering where accent marks go to properly move the stress on words. What is the easiest way to learn and retain this?

Answer 1

Thank you Moe and Lorenzo. I know there are exceptions to the rules and that I will just have to learn those. But I need to start somewhere!! I don't know why it is that certain things act as stumbling blocks, but mine at the moment are accent placement and remember articles! gracias por su ayuda

Answer 2

Unfortunately, all rules have exceptions:

A los singulares régimen, espécimen, carácter, se oponen los plurales con acento desplazado regímenes, especímenes, caracteres (de acuerdo con el esquema acentual del latín originario: régimen/regìmina, spècimen/specìmina, charàcter/charactéres).

Answer 3

¡Hola!, LarryKiller:

You might find this information helpful as it relates to the accent (ot "tilde") marks over the letters.

Accent Marks and Pronounciation Stress

Span¡shD!ct.com has two Reference articles dealing with the meaning and significance of the "Tilde" accent marks that are placed above some of the Spanish letter characters. Here are links to those two articles:

Tilde Accent Marks, and

Kinds (Categories) of Stress (or syllable emphasis)

Our teacher, Paralee Whitmire created these in the hope they would help you to understand how the tilde accent marks affect word pronounciation.

Muchos saludos/Best regards,

Moe