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Spanish · Pronunciation Guide
How do you pronounce "también" in Spanish?
tahm-BYEN, with the accent forcing the beat onto the last syllable and the ie gliding into one sound.
Two syllables, not three: the ie counts as a single diphthong, so the word splits tam-bién. It ends in n, which means the default rule would stress the second-to-last syllable and give "TAM-bien". The written accent overrides that and drags the beat to the end. This is a word where the mark is genuinely load-bearing — drop it and the pronunciation flips.
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Yo también quiero ir.
I want to go too.
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"Yo también quiero ir" opens with an emphatic "yo", which is why the pronoun appears at all — Spanish would normally leave it out. "Quiero ir" pushes two verbs together with no "to" between them, and the final o of "quiero" links straight into the i of "ir", so the phrase comes out KYEH-ro-EER in one breath.
Where English speakers slip
The commonest wrong version is three syllables with a front beat: "TAM-bee-en". Two corrections at once — the ie is a single glide, and the accent puts the weight at the end. Learners also flatten the first a toward the vowel of English "tam", where Spanish wants it wide open. And in writing, dropping the accent produces a word that would be read TAM-bien, which no listener expects.