Pronunciation Errors

 

English Pronunciation Errors in Spanish Speakers 

One of the biggest challenges for Spanish speakers when learning English is pronunciation. English pronunciation can be quite tricky, even for native speakers. From confusing vowel sounds to mispronouncing certain consonants, there are plenty of common errors that many English learners fall into. In this blog post, we will explore some of these frequent pronunciation mistakes and provide helpful tips to improve the spoken English.

In Spanish there’s a tendency to pronounce things the way that they’re written. There are also some big differences between English and Spanish phonetics. Improving your pronunciation is not about sounding native, it’s about making yourself understood.

Firstly, it is important to know the technique called Error Analysis and it’s background history. Error Analysis is used to spot, categorize and explain all the errors made by students who are learning English as a second or foreign language. It first became visible in the 1960s to substitute the job that contrastive analysis couldn’t do; to account all the errors a learner of English could do. Knowing this there was a necessity to solve this problem because it was, and still being viewed in language learning as the result of not accurate use of the phonetic or grammatical rules that archived in our brains. So errors or the little nightmares of every English teacher, need to be seen as the proves of the alive process of learning a new language.

Every time they occur, learning is occurring too, so don't be afraid of them. I know it is easy to say that we need to take errors as not a big deal, I'm not trying to say they are not a big deal, surely they are, but if you learn how to deal with them in a better way using some techniques, your job will be easier in the future.

Now let’s see some of the errors we have chosen that we consider are commonly made by Spanish-speaker students of English.