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Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Teaching Spanish pronunciation

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2.3 The affricate

Spanish has only one affricate phoneme; [tʃ] chocolatehacha (axe). It is more front, (more alveolar) than in English. In some varieties (parts of Chile, parts of Andalusia) it is replaced by [ʃ] (shoe).