Pronouncing Italian Consonants - Beginner Italian Course: Lesson 6

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you forgot to talk about the letter C in this video

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Being Turkish makes this incredibly easy! The pronunciation is literally same I'm so glad!!! Grazie

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[@blueyomogi]

Combining the consonants with each vowel is an excellent practice - it’s done when learning Japanese also. I found this so helpful, grazie mille, Manu!

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I chose to learn beginner-level Italian for my DofE award (award you can do in England and some other countries) because of a school trip to Italy later on in the year. Well, that was cancelled lol, but by that time I’d already put money into buying textbooks and stuff so I didn’t really want to change it. Even though I did continue, I was severely unmotivated (plus the textbook was an absolute bore!), and ended up putting off completing the final few hours of study for literal months. I decided to finally sit down and do some sort of study, and found these videos. I’m so sad that I didn’t find you earlier on because I would have learnt so much more! You’re such a good teacher Manu! Grazie

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Funny how being Polish is a superpower when it comes to pronunciation of other languages.

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Same with being albanian we have 7 vowels so it’s easy to mimic or pronounce other words in different languages

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Day 4 : I really had so much fun learning consonants, more specifically the letter Q 😅 I felt like I was a duck. Thank you

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Knowing spanish definitely helps to learn Italian. We pronounce our vowels the same way.

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Exactly, Spanish is my mother languague.

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Your way of teaching Italian is very good. As an English Language teacher, knowing English helps me a lot since they have 60 percent in common in the means of vocabulary. And I have the advantage of being a native Turkish speaker, because I think Italian and Turkish have the rest 40 percent in common 😊 Thanks for your effort

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Lesson 6....yay, you got into the lesson quickly

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Hey Manu, really nice and reasonable lessons. I also found out that Italian has almost the same vowels as Ukraininan language, and that's why it is easy for us to speak your language. Your lessons are very useful for Ukrainians who speaks English. Thanks!

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[@emansobhy4382]

This is one of the moments when I felt happy that English is not my mother tongue😂 because I easily can pronounce Italian letters, all the vowels are like arabic, the consinent L, D, T are the same and the best part is that I can roll the R 😂😍💃🥳🥳 That's an amazing feeling. Thank you, amazing teacher for the amazing seriel♥️

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You can rool the R, Eman? Wow! Complimenti!😍 Ps. We really appreciate your feedback ❤️

[@emansobhy4382]

@@italymadeeasy Yes I can🙈 I think English speakers find it hard because the normal English "R" is already different. The tongue doesn't touch the roof of the mouth, so I think it will be useful for them to follow your way and practice "ra - re - ri - ro - ru" but not with rolled R just let their tongue touch the roof of the mouth and then the double "rr" is going to be rolled automatically. And that's why rolling R is easy for me because the Arabic normal and short R is the same to Italian. The only difference is that it's not necessary in Arabic it just happens when it's double "rr" or next to a constant like "RL in parlo", "PR" or "TR" mostly. The only hard part for me is if I have to roll it in the beginning of the word like "ragazza", here I have to be careful and keep repeating rrrrrrrr in mind because it doesn't come automatically😂 Sorry for this long text but I'm just really excited 🥹🙈😍😍 I reached lesson 16 in 3 days and I keep listening to the podcasts and every time I understand more than before, I'm really grateful for this♥️♥️

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such an interesting fact finding out about the 21 letters Italian alfabet. Thanks ! :)

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Manu so many tricky consonants ;) We love the way you teach. It makes sense. Thank you!

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Grazie Manu, you have filled in the blanks with the double zz sound.

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I like that I finally see the same open syllables as in Russian. 😁 Therefore, the sounds are easy to learn. Italian sounds are more open in pronunciation than English ones, but in Russian we pronounce it in much the same way.

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A couple of things. In Italian documents (such as indexes of names) you will come across the missing letters. Most likely (as Manu indicates) with foreign names. Also in older documents you can find "j" in place of "i" even in some Italian surnames. I think this is because the documents were originally in Latin. So you will find even first names like Ioannes/Joannes "John" (Giovanni in Italian) or "Ioseph/Joseph" (Giuseppe in Italian). Also wondering if we have names that have these missing letters should we spell our names in introductions? Or even the places where we live if they are not well known? Or should we just "Italianize" those words? And leave it at that? Grazie mille!

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14:10 This explains what letters were missing in your alphabet. Grazie, a domani.

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English is my first language, but I think I was made to speak Italian. I've always been able to roll my r's well. I've also been saying perfecto since I was a bambino.😂

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Perfecto does not exist in Italian. They say perfetto.

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My japanese gets in my way and instead of your way, I always say like ma mi mu me mo or like la li lu le lo :D But learning with syllables is absolutely helpful, and this is the part that my japanese helps me

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yea the R sound in american english is called "retroflex" (the tip of the tongue curled up on like postalveolar).

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Another great video. I have problems with “sb” and “gli.”

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Manu for J what about the town lajatico. Thanks

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Grazie!

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[@MrReese]

What about the words you have used yourself in the course so far already that have one of the consonants that according to you don't exist in Italian, like xilofono? Does that count as a "word from another language"? The way the word is written and spoken sounds very Italian to me.

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Words with X are often of Greek origin.

[@muttlanguages3912]

I think you forgot to cover c at the end

[@progaminggr1457]

The fact that italian words don't have the letter K which is sooo common in other languages is really interesting

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The lion head! 😂😂😂

[@PaulaWordCrafts]

In English, the pronunciation of "L" is a subvocal, produced low in the throat.

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Thank you 😊

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Do I need to visit Italy to speak good Italian and as I said before, I don't want to learn an Italian dialect like dialects of my native language, Gaeilge (Irish) like Donegal and Nortthern Ireland, as it sounds like Scots Gaelic.

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Manu, what do you recommend for learning just straight up vocabulary for Italian?

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Ciao! In our channel you'll find a Playlist "Italian Words" where we focus on vocabulary ☺️ kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGK7epKHorqciLs

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Buona sera! Per quanto tempo devo terminare il corso?

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Ciao Carlos! Il corso è composto da 30 lezioni, puoi decidere tu in quanto tempo terminare il corso. Noi consigliamo una lezione al giorno! 😍

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Interesting

[@graememudie]

4:47 FUI h is not pronounced in English spoken in England but is pronounced in Scotland.

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[@j-view3858]

I know I am on just lesson 4, but is there a quick tip/rule for making words plural? Dog-dogs, I saw cane-cani would it be a rule to change words that end with an E to an I?

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Yes, we'll deepen the plural, in Italian, in the next lessons of this "Beginner Italian Course", J-View!😍

[@brainstorm0203]

Manu, would you say that L in Italian is softer than the English L? Because when I started speaking English, I was told my L is too soft. Seems like it’s the case here as well unless I’m getting it wrong.

[@akira1228]

1:22 "Ba be bi bo bu" - almost like Japanese - "Ba bi bu be bo" :)

[@mattgao1986]

really good series❤，but are there any tips to pronounce r?

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Ciao Matt! Check out this video about how to roll your R ❤️ kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIi0mXZtpM2MfrM

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Lesson 6 done R are easy for Spanish speakers Ci vediamo nella prossima lezione 🎉

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[@AnnetteMurphyger]

H is also silent in French

[@alessandromonterosso94]

ciao manu is H silent is that why we dont hear it has much when we say for example "ho siete" i hope i am correct with this

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ciao Alessandro! yes, H is silent in Italian 🙂

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DA LI DA 😄😄

[@donna8775]

What about C?

[@bongomaster6976]

He said x does not really exist what is with xilofono

[@michaels3003]

It is not part of the official alphabet. You will see this concept in other languages that use some foreign words (like some English words in Asian languages).