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Originally Posted by Japo
There are only five vowels--long or short are the same; English in comparison has dozens of different vocalic sounds, that may be the only different between two unrelated words.
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Well, English was the only familiar example for me, so I taken it. It not means that I am comparing English and Spanish - only that both languages are foreign for me, and similarly have sounds that I cannot recognize - as I never heard them.
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w (sounds just like u, except that w is followed by another vowel in the same syllable) is even more different from v than English w in what and b in bat. I think Russians and Dutch people tend to mix up English w and v and most can't quite pronounce either completely well, but in Spanish there's even no v, v is pronounced b.
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Err... So what's the difference between w and u then? %) And what about aforementioned "beta" sound? Isn't it v?