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Pronunciation #1 - "c", "g", "gl", "gn", and Where to put the Pressure in Words!

Pronunciation #1 - "c", "g", "gl", "gn", and Where to put the Pressure in Words!

Released Monday, 14th March 2022
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Pronunciation #1 - "c", "g", "gl", "gn", and Where to put the Pressure in Words!

Pronunciation #1 - "c", "g", "gl", "gn", and Where to put the Pressure in Words!

Pronunciation #1 - "c", "g", "gl", "gn", and Where to put the Pressure in Words!

Pronunciation #1 - "c", "g", "gl", "gn", and Where to put the Pressure in Words!

Monday, 14th March 2022
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La Pronuncia!

In this first pronunciation episode we'll go through how we can see if there's a hard or a soft "g" and "c", we'll look at the sounds "gl" and "gn" - and on which syllable to stress in Italian words!

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c and g:

with ci, ce, gi, ge - a soft sound.

Other cases: hard sound.


gl and gn:

"gl" has the sound like in "million" in English.

Ex: famiglia

"gn" has the sound like "onion"

Ex: signora


Stress in a word:

In general - next to last syllable.

If there's an accented vowel as the last letter: stress on the last syllable

A handful of exceptions stress the third to last.

Ex: sabato, facile, tavola.


Well done!


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Intro-music is "Night in Venice" by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5763-night-in-venice/

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license



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