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Spanish is my mother tongue and I almost can't differentiate じょ and よ sounds.
Maybe the same thing happens to English native speakers. How do you solve that
problem in English... is there a common English word that uses the sound じょ
and another that uses the sound よ?
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pronunciation
Pronunciation of じょ and よ
For equivalent English sounds, you can find the Japanese じょ sound in certain
names and words:

  * Joe
  * Joad
  * joke

You can also find the Japanese よ sound in certain words:

  * yo-yo
  * yo _(slang)_

Here is an example of a phrase in Japanese that uses **longer forms** for each
of the sounds じょ and よ on this website: [JOUYOU
KANJI](http://www.forvo.com/word/%E5%B8%B8%E7%94%A8%E6%BC%A2%E5%AD%97/)

On that page is an audio recording of someone named "akitomo" speaking a
phrase that includes both the じょ and the よ sounds: "JOUYOU KANJI". _(In that
recorded phrase, can you hear the difference between the first part "JOU" and
the second part "YOU"?)_

As your native language is Spanish, you could almost think of Brazilian
Portuguese pronunciation for _(at least some cases of)_ the letter "j" when it
comes to pronouncing the じょ sound, as well. Do keep in mind, however, that the
Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation might be slightly different _(i.e. more of
a softer "j" sound)_ than the Japanese pronunciation of じょ.
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