Which Spanish speaker prounces Spanish best?
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I was having trouble with the pronunciation for " la librería" trying to say it the way Spanish -Antonio says it. But I think Spanish - Ines says it better.
Who do you think pronounces the Spanish best?
2 Answers
Acapela is totally free! I just accessed it and yes, you are right! Antonio's pronunciation is not right. It actually sounds like he is placing the "tilde" in the wrong place.
- Both, María and Inés pronunciations are correct. I tend to prefer María's over Inés' though!
- However, I typed "librería" not "la librería" When I typed "la librería", Antonio's pronunciation was perfect. Weird eh?
You must have a paid version of Acapela. I could only access English, French, and a language I didn't recognize. I did manage to find samples of Antonio and Ines. These two seem to have similar accents (both appear to be from Spain) but Antonio's accent is more marked and might make it more difficult for a non-native speaker to understand him. The third Spanish voice, María, seemed to me to have a cadence and pronunciation similar to parts of Central America. Such pronunciations are often easier for non-native speakers to understand. As a linguist I can't really answer your question because I don't actually believe there exist better and worse dialects of any given language, but it is possible that the computer program Acapela mispronounces a word from time to time in a way the is not related merely to differences in dialect but rather problems in machine text to audio software. As a second source you can consider using the audio feature of our dictionary here on Spanishdict.com most Spanish words in the dictionary have an audio symbol you can click to hear the word pronounced.
Follow this link to see a video pronunciation of the word librería on Spanishdict librería
