1. Sounding great in Spanish Finding the emphasized syllable. Learning the accent rules.

2. Which syllable is loudest? hermano trabajo bueno ganas importante inteligente

3. Which syllable is loudest? hermano trabajo bueno ganas importante inteligente

4. What is the rule that you think makes the emphasis fall on the next to last syllable?

5. If a word ends in a vowel, n or s, the next-to-last syllable is the loudest.

6. What about the following words? Where does the emphasis fall? pared madrid tenedor leal mudar eficaz

7. What about the following words? Where does the emphasis fall? pared madrid tenedor leal mudar eficaz

8. From the examples given, what would you hypothesize is rule governing where the emphasis falls in the words you just examined?

9. If a word ends in a consonant other than N or S, the last syllable is the loudest.

10. What would you hypothesize the accent marks in the following words tell a speaker to do? día fácil difícil rápidamente águila

11. An accent mark tells you that one of the two rules: ends in vowel, n or s or ends in any other consonant HAS BEEN BROKEN. When you pronounce a word differently than the rules say, you write in the accent for a reader.

12. How do I divide words into syllables to find the loudest syllable? The only letters that can start a syllable are letters that can start a word in Spanish normally. importante im por tan te There are no words that begin with mp or rt or nt. Split these consonant groups.

13. a, e, and o are strong vowels and they can stand by themselves. leal has to be split le and al. You cannot have two strong vowels side by side in the same syllable.

14. That leaves i and u as weak vowels that dont stand alone well. They often blend with a strong vowel, another weak vowel or have an accent in an emphsized syllable.

15. buenos bue nos sietesie te almuerzoal muer zo duermeduer me colibríco li brí

16. The most common pattern in syllables in Spanish is…

17. Consonant followed by vowel. For example. sí la ba pa la bra co no ce