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How do you pronounce "la parte" in Spanish?
lah PAR-teh — a tapped r and a fully pronounced final e.
Two syllables: PAR-te, stressed on the first, as the rule for this ending requires for a vowel-final word. The plural "partes" keeps it. The verb "partir" moves the beat to the end because of its r ending, and means both to leave and to split — a useful pair to keep apart.
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¿En qué parte de la ciudad vives?
What part of the city do you live in?
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"¿En qué parte de la ciudad vives?" uses "en qué parte" where English might say whereabouts. "Ciudad" fuses its iu into one glide and stresses the final syllable because it ends in d. "Vives" has two b sounds where the spelling shows v's.
Where English speakers slip
The final e gets dropped, turning the word into the English "part", and the r gets the American treatment that bends the "ah" backward. Both need fixing: a clean vowel, a single flick, and a full "eh" at the end. Note also the phrase "por otra parte", meaning on the other hand, which uses the same two beats.