The Spanish LL and Y Pronunciation: Is It a 'Y' Or A 'J' Sound?

In this video lesson, we will tell you what are the correct pronunciation of LL and Y in Spanish, we'll tell you if it sounds more like a "Y" or a "J". We will give you all the key phrases, vocabulary and cultural insights you need for it. This is the best place to start learning the Spanish language!

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[ThePhalcon]

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[sharneduplessis]

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[jeffersongomes]

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[JulianChild]

You guys are a God send! I am a professional singer in the States and don't have a drop of Mexican blood in me. That said, I am in Mexico often because I absolutely love everything about Mexico, Mexicans and the Mexican culture ... the list is long.
Years ago, before you were born, I was living with a Mexican woman in Dallas and she assisted me when I learned the song "Perfidia" to be sung with the big bands. I was such a stickler about getting it right, I would have people rush up to me after a gig and start rambling off Spanish and when I told them I didn't speak Spanish I would hear responses such as, "But you sang that without an accent, " which pleased me to no end.
Fast forward 30 years and I decide I want to start performing "Tu Solo Tu" in honor of the late goddess Selena whose life was taken on my 32nd birthday and it still hurts me deeply to this day. But now I have no Mexican housemate (she was 84 at the time) but we have the internet. I have been going crazy. I would listen to Selena and she would switch back and forth between the "y" sound and the "j" sound as did Linda Ronstadt. So I thought, 'These two ladies were born and raised in the States, I'll pull up something from Mexico, ' I did and some would pronounce "y" as "ee" and others such as Aida Cuevas (born and raised in Mexico City) would pronounce it with the hard "j" sound. I met a lovely South American woman in a bar last week and she insisted that it is pronounced "ee."
I suspected that there might be a regional thing going on here and you just confirmed it for me. Thank you!!! I am subscribing to your channel and am just going to learn how to speak Spanish ... after I get this song down. AND ... I'm choosing to go with the hard "j" sound. Thank you!

Update: Okay, so Aida seems to resort to the "ee" sound when it is followed by a vowel. Additionally, her "LLs" sound somewhere between the English "J" and "CH" just like the Spanish "T" sounds somewhere between the English "T" and "D." I'm gonna get this down!!!

[eagleseye]

Hi. Here in the Philippines, we pronounce el doble ele as (lye or lie). Por ejemplo, pollo (chicken). We pronounce it "polyo or polio", like how you pronounce the "lio" in the word "capitolio, " and "llave" (key) as "liave or lyave." We pronounce it very similar to the "lia" in the word "familia." I heard that we got it from the Spanish colonizers (from Spain), but I'm not really sure if that is the way the Spaniards pronounce the doble ele until now.

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[KMO]

I usually use the 1st pronunciation or "y" sound when pronouncing the Spanish "LL" & "Y".

[martinkullberg]

I am used in the spanish I heard to the ye sound for ll and also for y.
I pronounce ll as lyo/ye and y as ye:

Calle - caye , but pollo - polyo
Yo- yo.

[elainecogar]

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[ROHITKINGC]

Where is the Zh sound for y and ll like in pleasure, measure, treasure?

[okay]

I feel comfortable pronouncing "Ll " and "y" as the English "y" but someone said that it sounds gringo and that it is better to pronounce Ll and y as the English "j". So I was wondering if there’re native speakers who pronounce it as the English “y”

[Connor_Dempsey]

I hear j (jackson) a lot from native speaker and y (yellow) from non-native speaker that is a teacher

[fluffy_foxy]

⁰1.⁰9.2⁰2³_Oh my gosh! Thank you so much for this lesson!! I'm learning Spanish through Duolingo and my pronunciation has not been the best the robotic teachings you know and I just got so frustrated🤬 but it doesn't teach you how to roll your R's and the Double L differences and that's the thing that I used to get wrong a lot the Double L. I'm like why does it sound like a different letter than what I'm Looking at?? You guys have helped me so much with this video thank you gracias gracias gracias❤❤

[gustavovillegas]

My parents are from Jalisco and they always say it like a J :)