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Olla podrida
OH/yah poh/THREE/thah

‘Olla’ is a two syllable word, so the stress falls on the first syllable. ‘Podrida’ is stressed in the normal way, i.e. the stress falls on the penultimate (second to last) syllable.

The 'o's are pronounced closest to the 'o' in 'hot';
Always pronounce the Spanish 'll' like the 'y' in 'yes';
The 'a's are pronounced closest to the 'a' in 'father';
The Spanish‘d’s here are correctly pronounced like the English ‘th’ sound in ‘the';
The 'i' is pronounced like the 'i' in 'machine', and the English name ‘Ti na’.