1. Dental Spanish Club
ADEA
Introduction

2. Purpose Preparation for the Clinic
We can’t teach you everything about Spanish!
Learning another language takes practice
We’ll teach you
Words and phrases for different situations you’ll encounter in the clinic
Essential grammar
Pronunciation
Culture!

3. Classes Meeting and Greeting Patients
Taking a Patient Health History, Consent Forms
Screening/Comprehensive Exams
Prophy
Taking Radiographs
Talking about Oral Hygiene
Useful Phrases While Patient’s in the Chair
Restorative Dentistry
Oral Surgery (extractions)
Endodontics

4. Today’s class
Spanish BASICS
Pronunciation
Gender

5. Pronunciation Usually, Spanish is pronounced as it is written.
B/V- both sound like the b in boat, but not as strong or harsh as in english (baño, burro)
C- like s in sail before e or I (cita, centavo, cinco)
Like c in cat anywhere else (camisa, color, concreto)
When after H (ch), like ch in chum (chile, chocolate, chorizo)

6. Pronunciation
D- like d in dog at beginning of a word or after l or n (donde, falda, conde)
Elsewhere, almost like th in “other” (boda, poder, verdad, nada, cada)
F- like english f (futuro, fila, oficina)- less of a “puff” of air
G- like h in hat before e or i (genioo, generoso)
Like g in game anywhere else (gato, gusto,
H- silent (hombre, hasta, halbar)

7. Pronunciation
J- like English H, a little more raspy (Juan, ojo, mujer)
K- English K
L- like English L, but with tip of tongue touching on roof of mouth behind front teeth (el, hotel, mil)
LL- like y in beyond (caballo, bello, llave)
M- English m (menos, cama)
N- English n (nota, nación)
Ñ- like ny in canyon (mañana, Señor)

8. Pronunciation
P- like English P, no puff of air (papel, persona, pobre)
Q- like k in key (queso, que, equipo)
R- like dd in ladder, “flap” of tongue (caro, para, barato, hablar)
RR- tongue roll  practice! Done when r is at beginning of word or double r (rr) (perro, rojo, horrible)
S- like English s (sopa, salsa, sorpresa)
T- like English t, not explosive, tongue right behind teeth (torta, taco, talento)

9. Pronunciation
W- only in foreign words X- like English x (experto, examen) Y- like y in beyond (same as LL) (papaya, ayer, yerba) Z- like s in sail (azul, brazo, luz)

10. Pronunciation Vowels- A- like a in father (la casa, la tapa)
E- the e in café (elefante, come, que)
I- the i in machine (si, cine, comida)
O- the o in hope (oso, otro, doctor)
U- the u in rule (uno, tu, puro)
Exception: silent in gue/gui (guerra, guitarra)
Y- like the spanish i
Vowels are SHORT and CLEAR

11. Accentuation- Two basic rules:
Word ends in vowel (a, e, i, o, u) or n/s, stress falls on next to last syllable
mañana, triste, hablo, volumen, examen, tomates
Words en in a consonant other than n or s, stress falls on last syllable
salud, amidstad, papel, mujer, doctor, azul, cantar
When you see a written accent, the stress falls there and breaks any rule
Examples
teléfono, lámparo, música, café, difícil, canción

12. How not to sound like a “gringo”
Remember:
Keep vowels clear and short
Use and practice Spanish “r” and “rr”, don’t use English “r”
Don’t make puffs of air when saying “p”, “f” and “t”
Always pronounce “z” like the English “s” and not “z”

13. practice
Get together in groups of 3 to 4 and practice saying the Alphabet
How do you say these words (with correct stress)?
Útil
Casa
Tropical
Examen
Tomates
Difícil
Any questions?

14. Gender Masculine- most words that end in “-o” and “man”, “boy”
El hombre, el niño, el dormitorio, el cartero
Feminine- most words that end it “-a” and “woman”, “girl”
La mujer, la niña, la rosa, la guitarra
For the most part you just need to memorize the gender when you learn a new word.
There are some general trends
However, lots of exceptions exist