“The Spanish r is pronounced at the front of the mouth by vibrating the tip of the tongue against the front of the roof of the mouth just behind the upper teeth.” There are two variants to it: single R means single vibration, just a roll of your tongue. However, Y by itself between two words also means “and” (as in “Mario y Juan”), in which case it’s pronounced “ee”, as well as when found at the end of a word. It’s a similar sound to Y is LL (no typo), which is pronounced exactly like SH, something we don’t have in Spanish. I know what you’re thinking: “If J sounds like H, then wtf sounds like J?” That would be Y, a sound that kind of falls in between “Chair” and “Share”. If you need a reminder think of the phrase “No way, José”. In Spanish, the letter that actually sounds like English H is J. H, like I said, is mute, no matter where in the word it’s located, just ignore it. The word “guillotine” (which is of French, and therefore shares a Latin root with Spanish) should serve as an example. For G to sound as in “going” when in front of an E or an I, a U needs to be put in between. However, when followed by E or I, C will sound like an S, as it does in “celery”, or “cistern”, and G will sound like an English H (Spanish H is mute), as in “her”, or “hilarious”. Whenever preceding of A, O, or U, C will sound like “cat”, “cold”, or “cool”, and G will sound like “gasp”, “gone”, or “gut”. C and G are tricky because of our grammar rules.
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