How do you pronounce the verb "leer"?
How do you pronounce the two e's in "leer"?
Do you rearticulate the second e, or does it sound like you're saying "ler"?
And for its conjugates -- lees, lee, leemos, leen?
Also, does this apply to all pronunciations on double vowels?
3 Answers
Yes to my knowledge- for vowels that are the same- some double vowels form dipthongs (single sound) if they are not the same. In those cases accents are used to tell you when not to meld them. Your best bet is to use the videos in the dictionary here to get a sense of how to pronounce different combinations.
http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/leer
After the word leer there is a sound icon followed by a video icon (arrow to the right)- the video icon has a young gentleman native speaker pronouncing the word then using it in context. Listen to how he says it.
It is pronounce like "leh-ehr".
