Thread: Letter Accents?

Originally Posted by risque

Hi everyone! I have a question about accents, meaning accents above letters in a word and which one is appropriate =)

Hi Risque, here is a good Web page to learn the rules for written accents in Spanish

http://coe.sdsu.edu/people/jmora/accents.htm

Originally Posted by risque

Basically how to make the "ue" part silent. Thanks so much in advance everyone!,

This is an entirely different thing Risque, In Spanish with a few exceptions there are no silent letters. The letters "ue" would never be silent in words lie "fue", "juego" etc. Now the letters "ue" preceded by "q" (que) sound "Ke" like in the word Chemestry.

Hope this helps

You can take advantage of computer speech synthesis software to get familiar with pronunciation, it reads with natural voices just like a radio broadcasting. take a look at the web site below.
http://www.panopreter.com/

There are many voice engines, the following voice engines are of high quality. You can install it on your computer, then panopreter will read with it.
http://www.acapela-group.com/infovox...solutions.html

Whenever you have accent problems, you can run the software, it will pronounce the words or sentence correctly.