Che Guevara

[Jazzy]

This is a really stupid question, but how do you pronounce Che Guevara? I just don't want to mis-pronounce his name......

[Taiga]

It's TCH-E with a silent "T".
No TCH-EY or SH-AY, please!!!!
As for Guevara, it is pronounced GHE(like toGHEther)-VA(accent)-RA

You're welcome :lol:

[Taiga]

Also you may listen to famous song "Hasta Siempre Comandante".
There is a very precise example of pronounciation of Che's name.

[Floyd.]

^Pronunciation^.

I've always understood it as shay not chay and goohvahrar rather than goovera, phonetically that is.

[Taiga]

Originally posted by [email protected] 2 2005, 02:23 PM
^Pronunciation^.

I've always understood it as shay not chay and goohvahrar rather than goovera, phonetically that is.
No, no, no!!!
It's wrong
Tch-e GH-e-vah-rah!!!

[Wiesty]

its

Chay Gu-var-a

[Colombia]

The last name is Gue Va ra

[Taiga]

You both (Floyd and Wiesty) are wrong.
Let me quote The University of Chicago Spanish Dictionary:

ch is no longer considered to be a separate letter in the Spanish alphabet. However, it represents a single sound, which is similar to the English ch in church and cheek. Examples: chato, chaleco, mucho.

e is similar to the vowel of late ([lejt]), but without the diphthong. Examples: mesa, hablé, tres.

Note that the letter u is not pronounced in the syllables qui, que, gui, and gue (unless spelled with dieresis, as in bilingüe).

You may check it here (http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/spanishdictionary/pronunciation.html)

Besides, you all know the word Que (What).
Do you pronounce it as Coo or Keh?
The same is with GUE(vara). Not Goo but Gh-e.

[Floyd.]

I don't like the way you hyphenate it I don't get how you would say it really from the way you describe it to be honest but pretty much undersatnd everyone else Colombia's post made a lot of sense to me.

I say que as kyoo.