Re: Spanish ll in different dialects

On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:16:14 EDT, Adam
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious <aczj5@...> wrote:
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> Okay, so this is my first year of non-basic Spanish class (since I'm now a
> Freshman :D).  My Spanish teacher threw off the class when she was having us
> memorize "puedo ir a mi casillero," where she pronounced the ll as /dZ/.  Of
> course, we're used to the Mexican /L/ whereas she used the Panama /dZ/.  Does
> anyone know any other dialects that pronounce ll as j?  Or why this is so?

Funny, as in my experience in Mexico the pronunciation is /j/ not /L/.
In fact evidence of this from the school in San José Buenavista just
outside of Santiago de Querétaro, i saw that frequently where there
was supposed to be a /j/ (as in yo) many of the kids wrote "ll". I
never, ever heard /L/ at all when I was there for /ll/. I don't even
hear it from the Mexicans who are here  from Michoacan, Oaxaca, and
Jalisco.