Day 1. How Maya Sounds.

The goal this week is to become familiar with how the Maya vowels sound.

Ignore the meaning! ...today focus 100% in knowing the different "a" sounds.

Maya is phonetic, so once you know the basic sounds, you can pronounce properly everything you read.



Here a native Maya lady pronounces phrases with the 5 different "a" sounds:
Pay attention to the subtleties.

a’ -VERY SHORT GLOTAL
a -SHORT
aa -LONG
áa -DECREASING LONG
a'a -PAUSED

If you download Anki, you can have these flashcards to practice.