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One way to mark yourself as someone who doesn’t care about pronunciation is to pronounce the Spanish z as it sounds in English. With the possible exception of some rare foreign words, the z of Spanish never has the sound in English. In fact, it has the same pronunciation as c when the c comes before an e or an i. And that means it is usually pronounced differently in Latin America and it is in Spanih, as our newest pronunciation lesson explains.</p?