Italian Pronunciation Tips
- The first step to learning how to speak Italian is knowing how to pronounce the words. Once you know how to pronounce the vowels and certain consonants, you can say any word.
- Indo-European Languages has a list of how to pronounce vowels and consonants here.
Figure 1: Indo-European Languages Italian Pronunciation Guid - About.com includes practice words in its pages on how to pronounce Italian Vowels, Consonants, Double Consonants, and also General Word Pronunciation.
- The "r" in words is always trilled.
- Italians stress the second to last syllable in words, even if the word only has two syllables. So "Signore" would be pronounced "Seen-YORE-ay", and "Scusi" would be pronounced "SKOO-see".
- For a fun, 10 minute video on pronunciation, go here.
2 comments:
I have just seen the MM video's for the first time last week. Very entertaining. I am not easily amused but, very funny.
Spero che to impara italiano presto.
Frank
Hey, Frank. Unfortunately, I don't speak Italian. I don't even understand it! Which isn't saying I don't want to learn it...That's at the top of my list of things-to-do before flying away to Italy (which is, also quite unfortunately, a long way away).
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