Please, need to know how to pronounce... Enamorada

you need to know how to pronounce the whole song?

look... it's easy, in spanish, vocals sounds always the same way.

So,

"a" sounds like "a" in the word "cat"
"e" sounds like the first "e" in the word "else"
"i" sounds like "i" in the word "mistake"
"o" sonds like "o" in the word "Tom"
"u" sounds like "oo" in the word "yahoo"

So, to pronounce this lyric, you must pay attention to the pronunciation of vocals, because consonants are the same.

I think the problem here is that you ASKED how to pronounce "Enamorada" but what you WANT is the complete translation of the song, correct? Perhaps you should repost it with that request.

However, if what you are looking for is someone to give you the pronunciation for the entire song...that would be next to impossible in a written format. If that's the case it might be better if you could find someone who can speak it for you...or take a basic Spanish class so you can learn how the letters sound.

When I was learning Spanish that was the 1st thing my friend taught me, before anything else, the alphabet and then the pronunciation.My problem now is that I may only know how to say a few things but the few things I can say I pronounce extremely well so people think I know more Spanish than I actually do!

I hope this helps.

Lynn

Yes, actually I was looking for pronunciation... thanks for you message Lynn!

I know, it could be lots of work for someone, who can speak spanish and can write it down that I could pronounce it (not knowing spanisch) so please, if somebody could do it....
THANKS AGAIN!

man it is so dizzying to read @.@

You're welcome

Oh, thanks!! <3 I'm glad you guys like it!

Yeah, I noticed that. IMO, it should be removed, so that ppl don't get the idea that it's correct.
~K

Anyways.....can anyone try something better than my awful work up there? It would really, really help me as feedback...

The only correction I would make is that the "a" is like the "a" in "father". I'm from the US (not from an area with a strong regional accent) and we pronounce the "a" in "an" slightly differently from the Spanish or Romanian "a" (which are similar...Romanian also has ă and â, which are both different from the Spanish "a").

BTW, I don't think the issue was with your own language, but with English. Spanish vowels basically have only one pronunciation, where in English they may have many. "A" can be pronounced as in "bat", or as in "baby," or as in the article "a" (kind of an "uh" sound), and to compound it further, Americans pronounce things differently depending on what part of the country they're from (when I moved to Texas in the early 1990s I had trouble understanding those native to Texas even though I am a native English speaker originally from Pennsylvania), not to mention the British, Canadian, and Australian pronunciations! English is weird that way. There are jokes about it...like this one...how would you pronounce this word? GHOTI

Gh as in LAUGH
O as in WOMEN
TI as in STATION...

It can be pronounced as FISH!

~K

Yes, Romanian has an î, but it is pronounced exactly the same as â, and there's been intense debate as to when each should be used to spell a word (there are two rules and basically you choose one and stick to it and not flip-flop back and forth, though the "official" rule is the one my teacher doesn't use...weird linguistic history there). The â/î sound is kind of like a cross between the "ă" sound, which can best be described as "uh", as in the English indefinite article "a", and a "u" sound, further back in the throat than the "ă" (the î or â sound doesn't exist in English or Spanish and is often difficult for ppl learning Romanian...for me it wasn't a problem for some odd reason...I had much more trouble in the beginning differentiating a from ă in my speech, and went through a period where I pronounced both as a hybrid of the two vowel sounds...LOL...my teacher gave me heck for that and eventually with practice I got it right).

I haven't learned French yet, but it's on my list. I want to speak five languages well in my lifetime, and I'm almost where I want to be with three There's someone in my area who teaches Swahili, which intrigues me.

~K

Wow...3 languages by age 8...that's so cool. I've taught my children Spanish and my 16 year old son knew enough to breeze through his first year of high school Spanish with an A average without studying (it was funny, his teacher last year asked him if I was a Spanish teacher...I'm not, just a language geek). I speak Romanian to my kids and although it annoys them, it gives me practice and they learn a bit on the way. I even speak Spanish and Romanian to the dog...he knows "Ven aqui" and "Vino aici" as well as he knows "come here" in English...LOL. My 9 year old already knows quite a few phrases in both Spanish and Romanian.

I have used Romanian only once in the US. I went to a Romanian restaurant where the owner and manager were Romanian immigrants. I also use it online a lot, and I do want to go to Romania at some point.

~K

LOL...when I was in high school I used to speak Spanish with my friends so that most ppl couldn't understand what we were talking about (cute guy or whatever). It wouldn't work where I live now because there are a lot of ppl around here who speak Spanish, but in my small town it worked very well

The present tense conjugations are complicated because there are four categories of verbs (those ending with -a, those with -e, those with -ea, and those with -i or -î), similar to the three categories of Spanish verbs (those ending with -ar, -er, and -ir). The tricky thing is that for the first category and the fourth in Romanian, there are two different sets of endings for the present tense and there is absolutely *nothing* in the infinitive that tells you which set to use, you just have to memorize it. For example, the present tense of "a învăţa" (to teach, to learn) is conjugated eu învăţ, tu înveţi, el învaţă, noi învăţăm, voi învăţati, ei învaţă, while "a dansa" (to dance), also a category 1 verb, is conjugated eu dansez, tu dansezi, el dansează, noi dansăm, voi dansaţi, ei dansează. There is no way of knowing, a priori, which pattern a verb will take just by looking at the infinitive (unlike Spanish, where the endings are the same for any given verb type unless the verb is irregular). The other thing I found slightly tricky is that for the first category verbs, the third person plural is identical in form to the third person singular, but in all other categories, the third person plural is identical to the FIRST person singular. Subjunctives are used much more frequently in Romanian than in Spanish, and for more reasons, and they differ from the present indicative only in the third person singular and plural (whereas in Spanish they differ across the board).

If you study Romanian and have any questions, feel free to ask.

~K

Unfortunately, there aren't any good quality books or websites to learn Romanian (at least to the level I want to learn it). I did use "Teach Yourself Romanian" for a few weeks when I first started, which was ok (only a *few* errors as compared to *massive* errors in other sources) but it was grossly inadequate for my purposes. I am now near the end of a course which is available online (my teacher is great, he's in Romania but he teaches me on Skype) and I can't say enough good about it.

~K