Jpthompson
A nice concise handout - great for beginning students to use as a study guide. The pronunciation guide is creative - helps students to understand how to make the Spanish d and r, but it does take a little explaining. Make sure students understand that the the "th" in the guide is not the voiceless "th" of the peninsular c/z, but rather the "th" in "mother," which is the Spanish d. My beginning students have a hard time accepting this - probably due to poor instruction in phonetics early on.
July 1, 2010