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No, it's absolutely terrible on every single one. For some reason it's telling you how to pronouce them with an English accent, or rather how an English-speaking person would pronounce it if they didn't speak Spanish at all.

> Adiós: "Adiós, my toes" - rhymes with "toes"

In this example "toss" would be much closer than "toes".

But yeah, this is awful. I don't know how this happened.




you must pronounce “toss” differently than most english speakers


I disagree that Spanish's /o̞/ is closer to General American's /ɔ/ than to its /ou/.

But that's fundamentally a question of perception that people are going to disagree about




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