Close, but no empanada...
Despite Latin Americans having become a fixture in most every town in the US over the last ten years, the prevailing American pronunciation of Jose (imagine the accent mark...) is Ho-Zay. In the same way, the Spanish "Rosa" is Ro-Za to a gringo.Maybe if more Anglos would lend an ear (as well as an eye) to those gorgeous women on the Venezuelan soaps on Univision, we'd learn to speak properly.- Da.
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Pronumciation of José  ·  José  ·  5/23/2003, 7:14 PM
Re: Pronumciation of José  ·  Magia  ·  5/23/2003, 9:46 PM
Re: Pronumciation of José  ·  Tieliebirds  ·  5/26/2003, 3:04 AM
Re: Pronumciation of José  ·  Ivayla  ·  5/23/2003, 8:25 PM
Close, but no empanada...  ·  Daividh  ·  5/28/2003, 8:51 PM
Re: Close, but no empanada...  ·  Magia  ·  5/30/2003, 8:59 PM
However...  ·  Ivayla  ·  5/29/2003, 9:56 AM