-I conjugated the verb cambiar for you (plural) and it is cambiais. I'm not sure about the pronounciation. Would it be cam-bye-ice?
-Is Spanish like French in that if you have two vowel sounds next to each other (la assistencia) you change the first to make it more distinct?
The pronunciation is cam-bee-AYS.
The answer to the second question is yes.
1. Many textbooks do not use the vosotros/vosotras form, but if yours does, the Present Indicative IS cambiais. The pronunciation is more like: a = ah cam-bee-ay-ees with the stress on the "ay"
2. 2 vowels together is a dipthong. If you remember "u" (you) and "i" (I) ARE WEAK, you will understand why often they have accent marks. (caí, continúas) Otherwise you would have the sound of "cay" or "con-tin-wasss" with the stress on the "i" of the 2nd syllable.
Actually you do not CHANGE anything in a dipthong. When a Spanish word has two vowels side by side, various pronunciation issues come into play: syllable division, diphthongs, and hiatus. A dipthong is also known as a "sliding vowel." American English vowels are REALLY dipthongs: a, e, i, o, u. Say them aloud and you hear a faint "y?"a-e / e-uh / i-yuh / o-wah / eu-uh? (Please forgive trying to use English letters to represent sounds!)
Sra (aka Mme)
Para México no usarías "cambiais" sino "cambias"
To find the correct pronunciation of the conjugated verb "cambiais" in Spanish, we can follow a few steps:
1. Break the word into syllables: cam-ba-is.
2. Pronounce each syllable separately, keeping in mind that in Spanish, each vowel is generally pronounced individually.
3. For the first syllable "cam," pronounce it like "kam" with a short "a" sound, similar to the "a" in "cat."
4. For the second syllable "ba," pronounce it like "ba" with a short "a" sound, similar to the "a" in "bat."
5. Finally, for the last syllable "is," pronounce it like "is" with a short "i" sound, similar to the "i" in "sit."
Putting it all together, the correct pronunciation of "cambiais" would be "kam-ba-is" with the stress on the second-to-last syllable ("ba").
Regarding your second question, unlike in French, Spanish does not have a general rule to change the first vowel when two vowels appear in adjacent syllables. Each vowel is pronounced distinctly, regardless of whether they are in different syllables or not. Therefore, in Spanish, the word "la asistencia" would be pronounced as "la a-see-sten-see-a."