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THE MOST COMMON MISTAKE By Dr. Richard Grayson, University of West Florida Spanish-speaking peoples´ most common mistake in pronunciation is without a doubt the pronunciation of words that begin with "sp", for instance "speak", "special", "Spanish", etc. They have a tendency to put an "e" in front of such words. For instance, the word "special", they pronounce "e-special"; "speak", "e-speak"; "Spanish", "e-Spanish", etc. The following is an exercise to correct this. Pronounce the word first in Spanish, the second in English incorrectly, and the third in English correctly:   Spanish Incorrectly in English Correctly in English especial e-special special Español e-Spanish Spanish hablar e-speak speak Now pronounce the following the same way:   Spanish Incorrectly in English Correctly in English Hablo español. I e-speak e-Spanish. I speak Spanish. Hablas español. You e-speak e-Spanish. You speak Spanish. Él habla español. He e-speak e-Spanish. He speaks Spanish. Now pronounce the following: I speak special Spanish; you speak special Spanish; he speaks special Spanish. If you listen to my pronunciation and copy it, you will have elimated the most common error made by Spanish-speaking peoples.

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Spanish-speaking	de habla española (no "Spanish spoken")	etc.	etc. (pronounced etcetera, not "E-T-C")
for instance	por ejemplo	following	siguiente
mistake	error	the same way	el mismo modo