Raff Aieta on Instagram: "AUTOMATIC (automático) The “d” you see in this phonetic transcription is NOT a real D sound. It represents the flap sound in English (the same sound in automatic, water, better). If your native language is Spanish or Italian, this sound may feel similar to a soft R, but we can’t call it “R” because in English R is a completely different sound, examples: road / arrive That’s why pronunciation uses a standardized international system, so sounds are not confused between la