Some Spanish consonants
Listen to how some of the relatively difficult consonants in the Spanish language sound. For each consonant, multiple Spanish words are also spoken as an example.
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Difficult consonants
| ch | Chihuahua, Chile, chirimoya, chorro - cha, che, chi, cho, chu |
| j | jamás, Javier, ají - ja, je, ji, jo, ju |
| ll | llama, calle, lluvia - lla, lle, lli, llo, llu |
| ñ | niño, añoro, año, años - ña, ñe, ñi, ño, ñu |
| r | ra, re, ri, ro, ru - arroz, parra, ruina, riesgo, rincón, párrafo, arruga |
Note: this is a transcripts page for the free Spanish language audio prepared by the Spanish Language Project Team at the University of California.
