Café con Nawatl: Jicaras and drunken Bunnies

Today I want to talk about the word “jicara,” one of my favorite words in the Nawatl language. But before we get into that, I would like to briefly touch on some basic Nawatl pronunciation. In particular, the pronunciation of the letter X. This sound tends to get mispronounced a lot, especially by Spanish speakers because there isn’t really a sound in Spanish that approximates the correct sound. In Nawatl, the X is pronounced as an SH sound, like in “shoe.”