LESSON 6 - How we pronounce consonants (B-C-CH)

CONSONANTS

Contrary to the indication for wowels in Spanish, the consonants are pronounced much less emphatically than in English and in some cases are rather slurred.

Has a softer sound than in English, produced by joining the lips, 

without pressure.

Before a, o, u, or before another consonant, has the sound of the English k, as in:

carro    (car) ,
costo   (cost),
cubo    (cube),
clase   (class),
crema (cream),
acto     (act)


Before  e,  i,  has the sound of English  th  in theft, thin, as in cinc, which is pronounced theenk.

However, in many parts of Spain and in Spanish America,  c  in therese cases in pronounced like Spanish  s  (seenk)

Like   English   ch  in cheese, riches.

In Mexico it is often softened to a sound nearly like 

English   sh, like   ch  in machine.