Words such as Madrid and ciudad can have the lisp on the final d. So in Madrid, these words would be pronounced as Madri-th and ciuda-th. However, the hard j sound does not exist in Spanish. In Spanish, the j is instead pronounced as an h. Here is a video from Howcast discussing how to pronounce the Spanish j. However, most Spaniards do not make the hard v sound. Instead, Spaniards pronounce the letter v with the b sound.
Here is a video discussing the letters b and v. The double ll in Spanish is not a common sound in English. It provides a little extra flavor to the Spanish language but is not terribly hard to pronounce. If you are a native English speaker, the double ll is pronounced like the letter y in English. Here is another helpful video from Howcast on how to pronounce the double ll.
What letters are silent in Spanish? In Spanish, the letters H and U can be silent. Why do certain Spanish dialects drop the letters S and D in certain words? This was brought over from the Spaniards when they migrated to the Americas.
If it were a true lisp, it would affect the letter "s", too. A legend has grown up that this "lisp" started when the Castilians were ruled by King Ferdinand in the 13th century.
He was supposed to have had a lisp, so his courtiers, in deference to him, started lisping, too. Amazingly enough, the King didn't think that everyone was taking the mickey, which was quite fortunate. This lisping habit eventually passed through to the general population.
The reason this lisping sound isn't found in Tenerife pronunciation is that the Canaries have their own dialect. It is called "Canarian Spanish". They would pronouce "chorizo" as "choreeso". As a one-time Tenerife resident, I ended up speaking what little Spanish I knew with a Canarian accent. She looked at me in confusion for a few seconds, then burst out laughing. Plus, learning regional variations of Spanish is fun! As you may already know, the Spanish language has many different dialects with various differences in grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.
These three linguistics terms describe how you should pronounce s, z and c. The verb form is cecear. Thus, this linguistic form eventually took predominance in the New World.
On the other hand, most parts of Spain embrace the Spanish lisping pronunciation in one form or another. As explained above, this means that c before e and i, z and s all take on an s sound. In this respect, these areas are similar to Latin American Spanish in their lack of lisp. I could just tell you to pronounce your c and z and s, if you want to cecear like an English th. Or why is it so hard for an American to understand Scottish or Australian people sometimes?
The answer to those questions lies at the center of our Spanish lisp discussion. English, Scottish, Australian, and American people speak differently because languages are living creatures that keep evolving all the time.
When a group of speakers of one language are separated from the rest for a long period of time, it develops unique features and characteristics. Under this light, we can understand how after five centuries of existence of the Spanish language in the Americas it has developed its distinctive features.
You can take this argument even further to explain why the people from Mexico speak differently than the people from Colombia, Chile, or Argentina. Even within the borders of one country, you find differences in the way people speak a language. But sometimes the most boring explanation is also the most accurate one. This is important as the Spanish lisp is the main difference in pronunciation between the Spanish from Latin America and that spoken in Spain. Ceceo is that sound English speakers identify as the Spanish lisp.
It finds its purpose in words such as casa house and caza hunt.
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