The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-28
THE GLOBES HOME STUDY COURSE
How to Learn spanish.

J-Nearly like German CHI.
K-AS in kite.
LAS in tale
LI-Lli as in brilliant, but tends to u
sound like that of y in beyond.
Mas in may.
Mas in not.
N topped by tflde-Ni as in union or ny
as in lanyard.
GAS in rope
PAS in rope.
Q-Found only in the combination gu,
which sounds like k, not like gu In
quart.
R-When medal like in very, but more
strongly rolled when initial or after b,
!, n, or s.
Rr-Very strongly rolled everywhere; like
French or Grman r.
S-As in thistle; never like our z.
T-As in time
U-When it begins diphthong, like in
was; when alone as vowel or at the
end of diphthong like 90 in boot. 1t
is often silent, serving only to indicate
that the preceding is hard dixie g in
go) before or i.
Vas in five.
Was in was, but like in German
words.
X-As in six, but tends to sound like S in
thistle, especially when it begins a diph-
thong like in yard
Eth as in think, but even in Spain, out
side of CASTLE, it tends to sound like 9
in thistle, and is generally so pronounce
ed in Spanish America. {.
1t should be noted that Spanish has few
double letters and that these, excepting
RI, do not represent double sounds. The
peculiarities of pronunciation and yo-
cabulary that characterize Cuba and
Mexico in particular will be treated at
the end of this course.
5. Besides the tide the double curve
over the n, the acute accent and the diaa-
resis are often found. Though because
of the limitations of typesetting machines
neither acute accent nor diaereSis is pro-
duced in these lessons, the rules for their
use are given below.
1. The diaeresis stands over the first
of two successive vowels and resolves a
diphthong or shows that the vowel u is
not a mere sign that the preceding is
hard-arguir. to argue; el aguero, the
omen.
2. The LSeS of the acute accent may
be summed up as follows: (a) It serves
arbitrarily to designate the proposition
a, to, and the two second forms of the
conjunction, G, and, u, or, instead of y
and o, the usual forms. (b) It serves to
distinguish many words of the same
form, but of different meaning-aun, yet,
still, from aun. even; ell, he, from ell, the;
mas, more, from mas, but; Sc, I know.
from Sc, ones self; tn, thou, from tu
thy, and many others. The interrogative
words are thus distinguished from the
relatives similarly spelled = cual, what,
which? from cual, which; que, what?
from que, which, that; quien, who? from
quien, who. (c) 1t serves to mark the
stressed or accented vowel whenever there
is deviation from the rules of syllable
stress or accented periodico, the news
paper la practica, practice; ell azucar,
sugar; ell arbol the tree.
6. The stressed syllable or vowel is
usually determined by one of the follow
ing rules:
\ a. The last syllable receives the stress
in words ending in or u or in a conso.
nant other than or s; buscar, to seek:
querer, to will or love, and all other
present inffnitives; ell pael the paper
etc.
b. The next to the last syllable re-
ceives the accent or stress in words end
ing in a. e, o, or in diphthong-el Odio.
hatred ell roStro, the face; la Inca, the
line.
7. In the use of capitals the two Ian
guages in the main agree. But the pro-
noun 20. I, begins with small letter,
unless it introduces a quotation or fol
lows period Proper adjectives are be-
gun with capitals only when employed as
nouns of persons,
g. The noun, article, adjective, pro-
noun and verb are variable, or capable
of infection, and must have much atten-
ton from beginning to end, with fire.
quent review. The invariable parts of
speech are the adverb, proposition, con.
junction, interjection.
g. The articles agree in gender and
number with their nouns, except when
for eupony's. sake el replaces la before