Saying "happy birthday" in Spanish

Terry

My cousin wants me to make a video wishing her so a happy birthday. He is currently living in Spain with his Spanish wife, and their child. I want to do it in Spanish.

Looked it up on Google translate, listened to the pronunciation, and I want to make sure it's correct.

I've no problem with most of it, but the word "Feliz" is throwing me off a bit.

On Google's translation thingy the woman sounds like she's ending the word feliz with a very light "th". It's almost like a very mild lisp.

Given how languages evolve, and how the vast majority of Spanish speakers live in South America, I'm assuming that the pronunciation differs throughout the Spanish speaking world.

I've heard the word pronounced as "felice" on U.S. television shows, and know that they can't pronounce most English words correctly (the letter "A" being pronounced as "O" like holloween as opposed to the proper halloween), so I'm looking for a native Spanish speaker to help me with the correct way to say "feliz".

Thanks in advance.

Donald Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8NcQzMQN_U

Some people from Spain would say it the "lispy" way. South and Central Americans would be more like the fella in the song.

There is some old legend that some Spanish King had a lisp so they all started copying off him.

If a Spanish speaker was sending you a message in English would you be that bothered if they pronounced with a British vs. American vs. Irish accent?

Where in Spain? I can think of 3 ways to say it!!!!

"Fay - Leith - Coombe (as in the hospital) play anyos" is the most common "Spanish" but Catalan and Basque have their way to say in their dialects and different words.

Terry

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119822061#Comment_119822061

If they were foreign, and tried to use the stereotypical Irish accent that nobody in Ireland has ever had, I'd be a little bit bothered. It wouldn't piss me off, but I'm not trying do to an accent here. I just want to use the proper pronunciation.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119822094#Comment_119822094

His wife is from the Basque region, so that's the type of pronunciation I'm looking for.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119826095#Comment_119826095

The pronunciation is oddly for me anyway even easier in Basque, usually the Z's, K's and X's the Basque language uses **** me up but here it's say it like you see it Zorionak Zuri

and here is the song you'll have to sing 🤣

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVS58dW8hB0