On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:29:38 +0200, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Fabrizio Giudici <
[email protected]> wrote:
Italian is by far one of the simplest languages around to pronounce
You probably don't realize it, but Italian has a certain number of odd
rules as well, in the sense that "what you read is not what you
pronounce".
I'm not just referring to oddities such as "c" pronounced "tsh" ("Non
c'è") and
"sch" as "sck" (I hear people saying "brushetta" all the time around
here,
Sure. But rules are consistent. "ch", "ca", "co" is one way, "ce", "ci" is
in the other. It's more difficult to pronounce some vowels in the "open"
and "closed" way, but even if you get most of them wrong people will
understand (it falls within dialectal variations).
For french I'm having a bad time in understanding the various exceptions
for which a trailing "s" must be pronounced (admittedly, I'm trying to
learn it more by practice than by reading grammar books, and probably part
of the problem is the fact that I'm mostly in Provence where I suppose
there are strong dialectal differences - the same happens in different
parts of Italy). I think I can give up with understanding how "ours"
(bear) must be pronounced. Fortunately it's not a word that I need often
;-)
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