FOR MATERIALS AND MORE: https://payhip.com/PremiumLanguages Ever wondered what does accents in Spanish mean or how do they change the sound of a word? In this video we explain that in detail and we offer many examples. Graphic accents in Spanish are called "tildes" and they are on top of vowels only. They are very useful in determining how to stress any given word. TRANSCRIPT HOLA! In today's lesson we're going to learn about accents in spanish the accents are called tildes and they are on top of vowels to help us with the pronunciation they are the equivalent of accents in music because they help us decide in what note or what syllable we need to stress any vowel can have an accent any and when we write them they always go from the left to the right accents help us with the stress of the word so they never go on top of consonants it is easy to confuse the wiggle on top of the na the any as an accent but it is not words can be break down into syllables and accents can be on top of the last syllable the second to last syllable or the third to last let's see some examples and let's begin with the last syllable habion a plain habion clearly the accent here is on the last syllable on an example of a second to last syllable would be arable arable tree an arable has the accent on the second to last because if you drop the accent here the sound would change to arbol arable with an accent arbol without the accent and an example of the third last syllable is the word platano platano if we start counting from no we can see that pla is the third to last so no the last ta second to last pla third to last it is also the first in this case but it doesn't really matter the important thing is that it is the third to last platano platano some words only have one syllable and they are called monosyllables and normally they do not have accents however some of them have an accent because they have a double meaning and we have an accent on top of them just to differentiate them two and two sound exactly the same but they have different meanings the first two with an accent means you and the second without the accent means your as in your house another good example would be l first one with an accent meaning he and the second without the accent is the article the boy el chico the sound is exactly the same in both cases for example in english the word bat refers to the animal or a baseball bat to avoid any confusion in spanish we add an accent and the things to remember from this lesson are that accents are here to help and they can go on top of any vowel we will leave the rules for adding accents for a different time since they can be a big confusion at this stage