Tricky Italian sounds: the consonant C - Beginner Italian Course: Lesson 24

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I'm an American with the last name Ricchi. I've been giving strangers a partial lesson on this for several decades now.

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Please tell all the North American TV chefs how to pronounce “bruschetta”.

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4:00 is Church not Heart. Grazie Manu, questo video è inestimabile [Priceless].

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This lesson solved so many things for me I knew the CI/CE sound. It's in my name 😂 ( my married name). I never new how to pronounce ciabatta or bruschetta.

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[@damienmason3807]

My family surname is Ciaccia. It is super funny hearing the variations from people during my life. Seea Seea....chiachia....ciaociao...chichi lol.

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13:05 Since this is a video about using languages correctly, the 2. point there should say: "When your instinct tells you /s/ then say /ch/" (instinct is 3rd. person sg.) 😊

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I came across the word "scienze" when learning this lesson, which seems to only odd word in the rules you've taught us. By the rules it should be "scenze". I wonder is that an exception or is it maybe due to the origin of the word? This lesson definitely helped tremendously to understand the sound, well done! thanks

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My pet peeve is going to an Italian restaurant and being given a "brushetta"

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Buona la bruschetta 😋

[@MrDigash]

chiesa is church, but in video it translated as "heart")

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The sounds remind me a bit of japanese XD Thank you for this lesson, btw :D

[@livystars]

Hey i have a question 😊 must i pronounce sicily as “si(chi)ly”? or is this, name of a place in italy, an exception? The rules will apply with the rest of the words, please guide me thank you 😊💕

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Ciao Livy! In Italian, Sicily is called "Sicilia" and it is pronounced as every other word with "ci", so "si(chi)lia". When you say "Sicily" you are using an English word, so it would follow the English pronunciation 😊

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Amazing! I wish you also taught calculus 30 years ago. Hey Manu - at about 8:57 you’ve got “chocolate” as “cioccolata” but isn’t it a masculine word - “cioccolato”?

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It can be both, masculine or feminine. Cioccolata is mainly used for melted, fluid chocolate.

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@@lorellacurione2110 Thank you! Chocolate should be masculine, feminine and abundant. Your explanation helps

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Chiesa is translated as 'heart', though Manu says it means church, which is correct.

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Yes, chiesa means church. We apologize for the mistake. Thank you for your attention!

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MANO!!!! WHAT??? You lost me with K before E, I! You're right. That's when we Americans mess it up! I sure did! 😂😂😂 I'm writing it down, right now! Ka, Ke, Ki, Ko, Ku...Cha, Che, Chi, Cho, Chu!!!

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I'm curious ... Why does the "ci" in Sicily make an English "s" sound?

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Ahhh, because that's not how you pronounce Sicily in italian! 😆

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It says chiesa means heart on your slides

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simple c followed by i or e is pronounced chi! otherwise K. but if c followed by I or e but to pronounce K then interpose an H

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Isn't CHIESA church?

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Понять не могу что он говорит в самом начале? Дратути?

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🙈We (my whole family) have been pronouncing my grandmother’s name wrong 😲 Cheechi we have been saying chickpeas 😂

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😮 what was your grandma's name? There is a very common name "Cecilia" that is oftened shorten to "Ceci", exactly like chickpeas! "Cheechi" (if pronounced "Keki") doesn't sound like any Italian name, my guess it's actually "Ceci" but spelled in an English way to make it easier to pronounce by English speakers! 🥰

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@@italymadeeasy all documents have the spelling Checchi (sorry for the extra e typo, my eyes were crossing from literally going page by page through thousands of civil tribunal registry records) I wish somewhere on the familysearch site they would have mentioned about women not taking the husband’s name so I could focus on the correct name, but thanks to you I can 🥰. I am 29 days away from my feet on the ground in Lucca and I feel very unprepared 🙈.

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ciao! ok, "Checchi" is a common surname in Italy and definitely pronounced "Kekki", not like chickpeas 😁 well, now you know! ☺️ 29 days are plenty of time to practise! Sure you might feel a bit lost at the beginning, but you can do it 💪😎

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Sylva Coscina

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Yes, exactly!

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Character is english and pronounce it k

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The oldest origin of this word is from Greek. "Ch" stands for hard H. Chrome is another example.

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ChiesA isn’t heart