Ten: The Spanish word for the number ten is diez. Remember the stranger they are, the better they work. To visualize it, imagine Buzz Light Year from “Toy Story” and he’s carving the word “new” in the Hollywood walk of fame while a tidal wave of umbrellas washes down the street. The pronunciation is sort of vaguely close to saying the English words new > wave > ah only fast and all together. Nine: The Spanish word for the number nine is nueve. Okay that’s not great, but it could work. ![]() He says “ouch, and then puffs of smoke come out of his nose in the shape of O’s” Ouch- oh, > ocho. ![]() To remember ocho, try visualizing yourself stomping on the toe of the Jolly Green Giant. I’m trying to explain how to piece these Spanish words together from parts of English words, because that can help you remember the Spanish word more easily. Then change the first vowel of ouch to oh as if you were saying oh ch oh. Try saying the English word “ouch” as if someone had pinched you followed by a short oh. The next sound is a ch sound as in the name Charles and then another short O. To get the pronunciation close to right, start by the English word oh, as in “Oh my!” only purse your lips into a tight O. To remember siete, try a sea (the kind with water) it’s one of the seven seas (a phrase for all the world’s oceans) and it’s become an animated monster and it’s walking up to GET it’s PAY at a bank.Įight: The Spanish word for the number eight is ocho. To get the pronunciation of this more or less right, start with the English word “see” then add the sound for the last part of the word “get”and then the last part of the word “pay.” Saying this correctly requires opening your mouth into positions that are not standard in English, so listen to this, open your mouth, get help from a teacher and look in a mirror to get it right. Seven: The Spanish word for the number seven is siete. So imagine a big animated six-shooter gun, the gun is wearing a top hat walking into an animated western bar and the gun is stuttering while trying to say that he’s an ace – seis. If you combine the sound that starts the English word “say” with the sound that ends the word “ace”, your pronunciation would be about right. Six: The Spanish word for the number six is seis. Put sink together with hoe and you have – cinco. If that doesn’t help you for some reason, try visualizing an animated kitchen sink hoeing five weeds in a vegetable garden. This word has become well know in American usage as part of the name of the Mexican and Mexican American holiday held on the fifth of May called obviously in Spanish “Cinco de Mayo”. Four-wheel drive Audio Quattro > Spanish number for 4 “cuatro”.įive: The Spanish word for the number 5 is cinco. Number if you thought about the four wheel drive luxury sedan called that Audi Quattro? You can be sure that the marketing people at Audio thought about the number four in Spanish (and Italian) before naming their four-wheel drive car a different spelling of basically the same word. The Spanish word for 4 is cuatro, and the name for this four wheel drive car is Quattro.įour: The Spanish word for the number 4 is cuatro. Remember the stranger your images, the better they work. ![]() Imagine a huge train wearing a woman’s dress and put the “tr” from train in front of the “ress” sound from the dress and you get the idea. Three: The Spanish word for the number 3, is tres. So imagine two does in the kitchen wearing white bakers smocks and making bread dough. If you are talking about more than one of them they are called does. The stranger they are, or the more naughty that they are, the better they work. When I don’t have any good examples for words like this, I try to remember them by making very strange images in my mind that try to represent the sounds with strange images. Two: The Spanish word for the number 2 is dos. If you’ve ever played this game, you should instantly be able to remember that it is the Spanish word for 1. This word first brought into wide use in English as the name of a popular card game sold called Uno. One: The Spanish word for the number 1 is uno. The Spanish number for one is “uno.” That is also the name of this popular card game.
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