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Spanish · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "el viaje" in Spanish?
el BYAH-heh — it starts with a b sound and the j is a throaty h.
Two syllables — VIA-je — with the stress on the first because the ia counts as one diphthong and the word ends in a vowel. The plural "viajes" keeps it. The verb "viajar" moves the beat to the end because of its r ending, so the noun and the verb sit on opposite rhythms.
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El viaje dura dos horas.
The trip takes two hours.
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"El viaje dura dos horas" uses "durar" for how long something takes, where English says the trip takes. "Horas" has a silent h, so "dos horas" links into do-SO-ras. "Dura" is stressed DU-ra with a single tapped r.
Where English speakers slip
Three things go wrong: the v gets buzzed, the ia gets split into two syllables, and the j gets read as an English j. The result, "vee-AH-jay", shares almost nothing with the Spanish word. Fix them in order — b sound, one glide, throat rasp — and the word becomes two clean beats: BYAH-heh.