“It’s called leviosa, not leviosá”. A phrase by Hermione Granger that makes us value the correct pronunciation of words. Each language has an articulation and a musicality with which to read a text correctly or differentiate words that are pronounced similar, but have nothing to do with it. For example, if in English you say “bich“, you will have to be careful to accentuate the word correctly to know if you are saying “beach” (beach) or “bitch” (bitch as an insult).
While In Spanish we use the stressed syllables and the tilde to know if it is an acute, flat or esdrújula word. But when a foreign word finds its way into our language, we get into a huge mess! We are more than used to spanglish for years, but not as long as Denzel Washington and Cate Blanchett, two Hollywood stars you’ve always called bad. Take note and learn to say their names correctly.
Denzel Washington: how do you pronounce it?
Denzel Washington He is one of the most charismatic and talented actors in the world. With a film career dating back to the 1970s, He has two Oscar Awards, three Golden Globes, an Actors Guild Award and a Tony to his credit., among many other awards. He is famous and loved all over the world, but hardly anyone says his name correctly… So He confessed it to our partner, José Fernándeza few years ago.
Denzel Washington, a career in pictures
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Denzel Washington with the Oscar for best actor for ‘Training Day’ in 2002, the second of his career and first as a leading man.
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Actor Denzel Washington is joined by Julia Roberts after Washington won
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Denzel Washington with his Oscar for best actor in 2002.
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Actor in a Leading Role Denzel Washington.
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The journalist has interviewed Denzel Washington a dozen times and in one of them, when he arrived drowned in water, he told him: “You are wearing journalist’s shoes!” The last time he interviewed him, José Fernández called him by his name correctly. It was when he made the movie Macbeth. “It was a lesson in acting, because he told me everything he dives into each character, and that he tries not to have references, but to take them to his own ground: build them from his own experience and impulses,” he recalls, without forgetting, of course, how to refer to it
When in Spanish we read Denzel, not having a tilde over the first ‘e’, we read it as a plain word. But nothing could be further from the truth: the name of the actor is a sharp word. But the thing does not end there. In English, the ‘e’ is pronounced in the alphabet like our ‘i’. Therefore, we not only confuse where the stressed syllable goes, but we also mispronounce the name of it itself. So the next time you read his name or meet to go to the movies to see his latest movie, you know: “They say ‘Denzil’, but Denzel”. In addition, his name has a history and he wears it with great pride: it is the same as his father’s. Although his mother did call him Denzel to differentiate him from his father.
Cate Blanchett and other Hollywood stars you misspell their names
Cate Blanchett has been Queen of England and now, Almodóvar girl. But despite his long professional career, which he began in 1994, and having played characters as mythical as the elf Galadriel in the trilogy of lord of the rings directed by Peter Jackson, suffers the same as Denzel Washington. Only this time it’s not because of his first name, which is pronounced “queit,” but because of his last name. Blanchett, like Denzel, is a sharp word in English.but since we don’t have a tilde in the ‘a’, we get confused and mispronounce it and the correct thing would be to say ‘Blanchétt’.
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