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Spanish · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "la camisa" in Spanish?
lah kah-MEE-sah — the s stays a clean hiss, not the z of English "chemise".
Three syllables, ca-MI-sa, with the weight on the second-to-last, which is where the default rule puts it. The plural "camisas" keeps it. Note the related "camiseta" — a t-shirt — adds a syllable and shifts the beat to SE, once again landing second-to-last without any written mark.
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La camisa está en el armario.
The shirt is in the closet.
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"La camisa está en el armario" uses estar for location. "Armario" is four beats with a single tapped r and an io fusing into one final syllable: ar-MA-ryo. Say "está en el" and all three words link into one continuous run.
Where English speakers slip
The s between vowels gets voiced into a z, giving "ka-MEE-za", because English does that automatically — think of "chemise", which comes from the same root and does voice its s. Spanish keeps it hissed. Both a vowels then want reducing, and the stressed i wants slackening toward "ih".