In the Romance<a href="http://zhpedcuhfb.com"> lgagunaes</a> (Spanish, Italian, French   all<a href="http://zhpedcuhfb.com"> lgagunaes</a> that spun off of Latin, spoken in Rome, thus called  Romance <a href="http://zhpedcuhfb.com"> lgagunaes</a>) the J sound is not like  jar  or  jump  but more of a Y sound, like  year . When I took 4 years of Spanish instruction, we learned that in some cases, the J has an H sound. I'm not sure how in modern English J came to sound exclusively like  jar  or  jump .