The best trick for more native-sounding Spanish

There's a super simple pronunciation trick that helped me and hundreds of my students to sound more natural and gain confidence in Spanish. Let's see it now, step by step, so that you can also do the same. To start, I want you to say these words out loud and pay attention to how you pronounce them. Very good. Did you notice something? If English is your first language, it's likely that you added an extra sound in these sentences. Let's see, what does this mean? In English, we use invisible sounds, that is, sounds that we don't write to connect words. They're like trampolines, small trampolines that we use to go from one word to another. And many times, that extra sound sounds like ya. For example, if we say fast, we add an invisible ya and we say If we say also fast, we add an invisible ya and we say And since we do this in English, we also do it unintentionally in Spanish. This means that we end up pronouncing these sentences like this. In other words, we apply our English habit of using that invisible sound to connect two words. In this case, a sound ya. To correct it, in theory, you only have to eliminate the sound ya and say But in practice, when you're trying to speak and thinking about a thousand things at the same time, it doesn't always work. Because our pronunciation habits are very rooted. It's muscle memory. And we put a sound ya again when we stop paying attention to pronunciation. That's why, many times, we need a second step, which is to eliminate the first e of the sentence. So, imagine it like this. And if you listen carefully to native speakers, you'll see that they rarely pronounce the two complete sounds. By the way, if you want to keep practicing all this, pronunciation, I have a pronunciation guide that you can download for free in the description below. The next step is to make all this become automatic so that you don't have to think about it. A piece of advice that I like to share with my students, although the advice isn't originally mine, but I don't remember where I first heard it. The advice is this. When you finally discover a new sound, that is, when you finally manage to make the new sound, compare it immediately with the other sound. That is, you jump from one pronunciation to another, paying attention to the difference. And I also recommend that you record, that you record yourself, if you can, with your phone. So, the practice looks like this. Now, let's put these examples in longer sentences and pronounce them out loud with me now. No entiendo lo que él dijo. Este es mi auto. Now you have an easy and effective exercise to sound and, above all, to feel more natural speaking Spanish. But if you don't practice conversation, these tips won't help you much. You'll never feel really safe when you speak Spanish. So, watch this video now to improve your fluency with a simple, practical and effective technique.