ITAL 1001 Lecture : Italian 1001 Notes
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Like other romance languages, (french, spanish, portuguese, and. Italian is a phonetic language that means that it is pronounced as it is written. Italian and english share the latin alphabet, but the sounds represented by letters often differ considerably. The italian alphabet has 21 letters, but it uses 5 additional letters in words of foreign origin. (no, j, k, w, x, y) Bagno bathroom (gn pronounced like lasagna) Before a, o, or u, the consonants c, g and sc make a hard sound. C is pronounced as in english word cat, g is pronounced as in the word go and the sc is pronounced as in the word scarf. Before e or i, the consonants c, g and sc make a soft sound: c is pronounced as in church, g is pronounced as in gem, and sc is pronounced as in show. The combinations ch, gh, and sch have a hard sound, as in cat, go and scheme.
