Course: Introduction to Italian

Watch the video to see how Anna describes the place where she lives. As a reminder, we suggest watching all the videos this week without subtitles, or with Italian subtitles …

In Italian, words with double consonants are pronounced differently. Basically, double consonants are pronounced with a longer sound than single consonants. To help you with pronunciation we can divide double …

Italian consonant sounds can be divided in three sets: a sound that corresponds to a written symbol written symbols that correspond to different sounds, according to the following vowel sounds …

In Italian, besides consonant sounds that correspond with a written symbol, there are: written symbols that correspond with different sounds, according to the following vowel sounds that do not exist …

Italian is a phonetically spelled language. That means the graphemes (written symbols) correspond to the phonemes (spoken sounds) of the language (with some exceptions). There are no cases in Italian …

In this clip, you will hear the pronunciation of the letters of the alphabet in Italian. You can return to this step whenever you like for review.