Grettings friends, this will be the first class, which is focused on the basis of sounds. Let us make a distinction on what do we mean when we talk about sounds. As we know Spanish is quite different from English in this aspect. We call "phoneme" to one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language. Acording to this, Spanish has 22 phonemes without including the allophones. This information can be checked and explained better on the following links:
Fonemas
transcripción fonética del español con el IPA
In contrast, standard English has 44 phonemes (vowels and consonants are included)
Phoneme
english Phonemes
As you can see those differences are important at the moment you start studying either English or Spanish as well. Although this blog is designed for teachers or ELT/EFL students anyone can used it as they wish, just take into account that the information here is a bit advanced for beginners, so they will have to do a research in order to understand this information.
If you are an ELT student you might be in the right place. Here you can get entries for ELT online resources that help you to understand English better.
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