Learn Spanish with Norma

Word Stress and Acent Mark in Spanish Today we are going to learn the Word Stress and the Accent Mark in Spanish, I will show you the rules and many examples for you to get familiar with this topic. El Acento: The Spanish word for "stress" is Acento   - El acento is the emphasis that you put on a syllable as you speak it. -  In every word, one syllable always gets more emphasis than the others. - With single-syllable words, you don't have to worry about it, but many words have more than one syllable. La Tilde The Spanish word for "accent" is Tilde -  La tilde is written from lower left to upper right. -  Spanish accents can only be written over the five vowels. - If a Spanish word has a written accent mark, or tilde, the word stress falls on whatever syllable has the tilde. In Spanish, there are four main categories of words based on where the position of the stress is: Palabras Agudas Are words that are stressed...