From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
> Jeff Jones:
> >To me, Spanish /e/ and /o/ sound closer to [e] and [o] than to [E] and
[O]
> >(except before {rr} or coda {r}), and /a/ much closer to [a] than to [A].
> >Of course, I hear mainly Cuban and Venezuelan speakers, and after those,
> >Argentines (a whole nother pronunciation!), Columbians, Nicaraguans, and
> >Chileans.
>
> My Spanish (Old Castille) relatives' /a/ sound like [a] to me.
My abysmal inability to discern different qualities of vowels knows no
bounds... I'm pretty sure it's [a] in mine too, 'cause I don't think it's
quite like my English [A] at all...
*Muke!