25. Problematic Spanish sounds and letters (IV): Velarization and aspiration

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In the previous podcast, you heard one of the most difficult sounds in Spanish: the velarization sound /X/ that you must pronounced everytime that you find a word written with "J" (jota, like, for example: JAMÓN, EJEMPLO, JIRAFA, JOTA, JUGAR) or with G+E or plus +I, for example GITANO (gipsy) or GENERAL (general).

But, there is other similar sound called "aspiration" and its pronunced in some areas of south of Spain and America....