Italian Pronunciation, Video 3: Quirks of Italian's Spelling System

This is the third of a 4-part series on Italian pronunciation. The goal is to get familiar with the sounds of Italian and the IPA symbols. You'll then be able to learn them faster, either through your own studies or through my pronunciation trainers. More links below:
Flashcard Designs for Teaching Yourself Pronunciation: blog.fluent-forever.com/gallery/
My Pronunciation Trainers: fluent-forever.com/product/fl...
Anki Language Learning: ankilanguagelearning.com
More Anki Decks, including Italian Pronunciation: speakada.com
Reddit's Anki Language Learning Community: / ankilanguagelearning
A super detailed discussion of the IPA: • Pronunciation Tutorial...

[@LombaM6]

Good example of Italian phonetics. I'd like to point out that the accent is not a standard Italian accent, it resembles regional southern Italian. E.g. if you want to learn English, Scottish is probably not the most representative form of English pronouncement (although, nothing wrong with it).

[@Verbalaesthet]

Okay, I've been learning a lot of languages but this is the easiest so far. I feel I can almost do it just from watching your 3 videos. The difficult bits are so minor and few that I can focus all my attention on them. Thanks for the tutorials!

[@pirangeloferretti3588]

In Northern Italy you can easily get away without any syntactic doubling, local native speakers just don't use it. Sometimes even the 'gn', 'gl', 'sc' sounds are not doubled in the North, but it depends on the area or even the person, anyway everybody would understand you. The open and closed 'e' and 'o' are hugely variable from region to region, usually people will understand you anyway, although you may sound a little unusual to them.

[@flaviospadavecchia5126]

"If you can say a word, you can write it down", well, not always true. Since, unfortunately Italians also make spelling mistakes. For example, why does the word "scienza" need an "i"? Etymology! Does every Italian speaker innately know that? Nope. Same for "coscienza", but not "conoscenza". Weird, huh? How about po' vs Po; da vs dà, si vs sì etc etc...

[@BruceBainsford]

'guibba' is not a blouse, it is a jacket.

[@benjo972]

where did you get those rules form?? nobody here say Come vva? (double v) Dove ssei?? double s.. they sound a lot like "fiorentino, or "toscano" which anyway is a dialect and not standard italian

[@flaviospadavecchia5126]

I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "giubba" like ever hahaha

[@rukakoaye5368]

this video is just perfect

[@purebodyhome3085]

This is just...awesome. So helpful and SO PUMPED to start the trainer. I wish I found this 2 years ago on my Italian journey. Grazie mille amico!

[@frindtlevente]

When you discussed the letters 'c', 'g' and 'sc', you said that the rules for the "hard" - "soft" pronunciations are "obnoxious". Did you mean 'ubiquitous'?

[@user-jf4wl7id8l]

I am thakful to find those pronounciation videos.THANK YOU!

[@ramzy-6566]

Thank you so much for amazing video.

[@747Aerophilia]

Amazing! Thanks!

[@roccoinvadelapolonia]

"è poi" is not correct, it should have been "e poi" if you want to translate it with "and then".

[@R41N3LLGaming]

Consonant doubling for the soft C's and G's is impossible, since they are affricates. The first phoneme of the affricate is instead doubled.

[@francescoimparato78]

more rules have been forgotten...

[@Emile.gorgonZola]

scienza coscienza conoscenza

[@elisaamato1624]

it isn't always true that what you say is exactly what you write..

[@jefferylude7445]

you speak so fast for what? You tongue has married a turbo??