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Spanish · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "la película" in Spanish?
lah peh-LEE-koo-lah — the accent holds the stress on the second syllable of four.
Four syllables, pe-LÍ-cu-la, and the accent is essential. The word ends in a vowel, so the default would give pe-li-CU-la. The mark pulls the beat back to the third-from-last syllable — always written out in Spanish. The plural "películas" keeps the accent for the same reason.
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Vimos una película muy buena.
We saw a very good movie.
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"Vimos una película muy buena" places the adjective after the noun and makes it feminine. "Vimos" starts with a v as a b sound: BEE-mos. And "buena" glides its ue into one beat, BWEH-na, so the sentence packs a diphthong right after a four-syllable word.
Where English speakers slip
An ignored accent and three darkened l sounds between them give "pe-li-KOO-la", with a foreign texture running through the whole word. Keep them all bright and forward, and put the beat on LÍ. The stressed i also wants slackening toward "ih". This is a long word where every syllable needs to stay clear, which is exactly what English resists.