Easy Written Accents in Spanish
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 100
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 100
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Learning written accents in Spanish has long been a source of frustration for students. The way written accents have traditionally been taught is too unwieldy for students to quickly pick up this skill. However, written accents are very important in Spanish because many words are distinguished solely by what syllable the stress falls on in a word. For example, the word publico has three possible meanings depending upon which syllable is stressed:
- público = “public”,
- publico (with the stress on the next-to-last syllable) = “I publish”,
- and publicó = “published”.
Clearly then, written accents do matter!
The “Automatic Accent System” is a step-by-step system developed over time and tested over more than 30 years with students in the classroom. It has proven to be highly successful. If you follow the steps, written accents will become as automatic to you as spelling words is now, because once you commit the simple rules to memory, you will be able to hear written accents just as you are able to hear what letters to use when writing sounds.
Easy Written Accents in Spanish teaches readers how to:
- Achieve native speaker pronunciation
- Spell any word you hear with confidence
- Eliminate the need to memorize written accents individually
Contract
Easy Written Accents in Spanish with the “Automatic Accent System”
I. Syllable Division—Consonants
Syllable Division Practice: Consonants
Vowels in Spanish
II. Syllable Division—Vowels
Syllable Division Practice: Vowels
III. Natural Stress and Written Accents
Step-by-Step Run-Through of the “Automatic Accent System”
Written Accent Practice
Adverbs ending in “–mente”
Using the “Automatic Accent System” Aloud
Appendix 1: Consonant Division Answer Sheets
Appendix 2: Vowel Division Answer Sheets
Appendix 3: Natural Stress and Written Accent Answer Sheets
Gwendolyn de Alba Yount is a college professor in Riverside, California. She holds bachelor’s, Master’s, and Candidate in Philosophy degrees from UCLA and spent several years doing graduate studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the École normale supérieure – PSL, and the Sorbonne (Paris VII, VIII). She has won numerous awards for teaching excellence and her bio appears in “Who’s Who in America”, “Who’s Who in American Education”, “Who’s Who Among American Teachers”, and “Who’s Who of American Women”. Besides the United States, Spain and France, she has lived in Mexico, Costa Rica, Italy, England and the Czech Republic. It is this love of diversity that motivated her to write this workbook in the hopes of encouraging you to fall in love with the Spanish language and its many cultures.
Learning written accents in Spanish has long been a source of frustration for students. The way written accents have traditionally been taught is too unwieldy for students to quickly pick up this skill. However, written accents are very important in Spanish because many words are distinguished solely by what syllable the stress falls on in a word. For example, the word publico has three possible meanings depending upon which syllable is stressed:
- público = “public”,
- publico (with the stress on the next-to-last syllable) = “I publish”,
- and publicó = “published”.
Clearly then, written accents do matter!
The “Automatic Accent System” is a step-by-step system developed over time and tested over more than 30 years with students in the classroom. It has proven to be highly successful. If you follow the steps, written accents will become as automatic to you as spelling words is now, because once you commit the simple rules to memory, you will be able to hear written accents just as you are able to hear what letters to use when writing sounds.
Easy Written Accents in Spanish teaches readers how to:
- Achieve native speaker pronunciation
- Spell any word you hear with confidence
- Eliminate the need to memorize written accents individually
Contract
Easy Written Accents in Spanish with the “Automatic Accent System”
I. Syllable Division—Consonants
Syllable Division Practice: Consonants
Vowels in Spanish
II. Syllable Division—Vowels
Syllable Division Practice: Vowels
III. Natural Stress and Written Accents
Step-by-Step Run-Through of the “Automatic Accent System”
Written Accent Practice
Adverbs ending in “–mente”
Using the “Automatic Accent System” Aloud
Appendix 1: Consonant Division Answer Sheets
Appendix 2: Vowel Division Answer Sheets
Appendix 3: Natural Stress and Written Accent Answer Sheets
Gwendolyn de Alba Yount is a college professor in Riverside, California. She holds bachelor’s, Master’s, and Candidate in Philosophy degrees from UCLA and spent several years doing graduate studies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, the École normale supérieure – PSL, and the Sorbonne (Paris VII, VIII). She has won numerous awards for teaching excellence and her bio appears in “Who’s Who in America”, “Who’s Who in American Education”, “Who’s Who Among American Teachers”, and “Who’s Who of American Women”. Besides the United States, Spain and France, she has lived in Mexico, Costa Rica, Italy, England and the Czech Republic. It is this love of diversity that motivated her to write this workbook in the hopes of encouraging you to fall in love with the Spanish language and its many cultures.