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luis
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Hello everyone, today I was speaking with an American friend, he's in Mexico studying economics and I always help him to improve his Spanish, because he has problems with the language, Spanish isn't that easy.
I told him that Mexico was the second country with more hummers in the world in Spanish. First he didn't understand me, when he got what I was saying he began to laugh and said hummer, but with a very A (spanish sound of A) sound in the U.
I got a little angry because he was making fun my pronunciation and I don't make fun of him while he's speaking Spanish, actually every time he doesn't understand what I'm saying (that is more than half of the times) I always slow down my pronunciation.
So, when I got home I searched in Youtube some videos of hummers, and everyone there pronounced the U in hummer like an O (spanish sound), or something close to it. I have in my mind the sound of hummer and it coincides with those people. A friend, Mexican, told me that U in hummer was like A (spanish sound, like class), she said it in a very British way, she pronounced U more like an A than my friend Jeff did.
So now I'm like stupid pronouncing hummer and trying to remember how exactly he did it, maybe he pronounced hummer with a more A way, because I was pronouncing the U in a very O way, and he had to emphasize the A sound.
How do you move/put (or gesticulate) your mouth to say hummer??
Do you pronounce hummer, the car, like hummer ((baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity))?
And I was remembering this: I recently attended to a conference about feminism in International Relations (in English), and a two friends asked something, their pronunciation wasn't very good (I didn't understand everything they said), if Jeff had been there, he would have cracked up?
I told him that Mexico was the second country with more hummers in the world in Spanish. First he didn't understand me, when he got what I was saying he began to laugh and said hummer, but with a very A (spanish sound of A) sound in the U.
I got a little angry because he was making fun my pronunciation and I don't make fun of him while he's speaking Spanish, actually every time he doesn't understand what I'm saying (that is more than half of the times) I always slow down my pronunciation.
So, when I got home I searched in Youtube some videos of hummers, and everyone there pronounced the U in hummer like an O (spanish sound), or something close to it. I have in my mind the sound of hummer and it coincides with those people. A friend, Mexican, told me that U in hummer was like A (spanish sound, like class), she said it in a very British way, she pronounced U more like an A than my friend Jeff did.
So now I'm like stupid pronouncing hummer and trying to remember how exactly he did it, maybe he pronounced hummer with a more A way, because I was pronouncing the U in a very O way, and he had to emphasize the A sound.
How do you move/put (or gesticulate) your mouth to say hummer??
Do you pronounce hummer, the car, like hummer ((baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity))?
And I was remembering this: I recently attended to a conference about feminism in International Relations (in English), and a two friends asked something, their pronunciation wasn't very good (I didn't understand everything they said), if Jeff had been there, he would have cracked up?