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  Language School Explorer - Italian_language information.
Italian is a member of the Italo-Dalmatian group of languages, which is part of the Italo-Western grouping of the Romance languages, which are a subgroup of the Italic branch of Indo-European.
Italian is the official language of Italy and San Marino, and is an official language in Ticino and Grigioni cantons of Switzerland.
Italian has few diphthongs, and so most unfamiliar diphthongs heard in foreign words (in particular, those with a first vowel that is not "i" or "u", or a first vowel that is stressed), will be assimilated as the corresponding dieresis (i.e., the vowel sounds will be pronounced separately: "strive" and "hive" will rhyme with "naïve").
www.school-explorer.com /Italian   (2075 words)

  
 Italian:Pronunciation - Wikibooks
Italian is pronounced how it is spelled for the most part.
Usually when the english cognate ends in a "cy" and the italian ends in "cia" it is pronounced chia like in "chia pet".
It is used to adjust the pronunciation of c, g, and sc when they are followed by e or i.
en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Italian:Pronunciation   (807 words)

  
 Italian language, alphabet and pronunciation
Italian is a Romance language spoken by about 60 million people in Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, the Vatican City, Malta and Eritrea.
Italian first started to appear in written documents during the 10th century in the form of notes and short texts inserted into Latin documents such as lawsuits and poetry.
The Italian used was full of Latin words and over time Latin was used less and less as Italian became increasingly popular.
www.omniglot.com /writing/italian.htm   (456 words)

  
 Italian Pronunciation Basics
Italian spelling is largely phonetic; that is, with only a few exceptions a single letter or cluster of letters represents the same sound, and each sound occurring in the language has only a single written representation.
Italian r is either trilled or flipped, which is just a very short version of a trill.
To get a more Italian sound for both letters, your tongue should just touch the back of your teeth, not your gums, and it should be somewhat relaxed, not tense and pointed, at the front.
www.wbopera.org /chorus/italian.html   (1219 words)

  
 SmartPhrase.com > Italian > Pronunciation
Italian is not only spoken in Italy (Italia) and its islands.
In Italian, the alphabet is the same as for English, except that J, K, W, X, and Y are not used.
The usual use of accents in Italian is to indicate that the stress falls on the last vowel in a polysyllabic word.
www.smartphrase.com /Italian/it_pronunciation.shtml   (352 words)

  
 pronunciationguide.org: Italian
Grasping the finer details of Italian pronunciation can be tricky, but pronouncing it well enough for radio purposes is a piece of cake.
Italian uses accent marks sparingly, of the same varieties that are used in French (acute: é, grave: è, and circumflex: ê), but unlike in French, here they do indicate stress.
In theory Italian vowels are always meant to be pronounced separately, but in practice, unless one vowel has an accent mark, the rapidity of Italian speech tends to reduce such combinations to diphthongs and glides, similar to those in Spanish.
www.math.nyu.edu /~wendlc/pronunciation/Italian.html   (463 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Este, Italian noble family (Italian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Este[es´tA] Pronunciation Key, Italian noble family, rulers of Ferrara (1240–1597) and of Modena (1288–1796) and celebrated patrons of the arts during the Renaissance.
Azzo d'Este II had another son, who continued the Italian line of the house; among that son's successors was Obizzo d'Este I, d.
In the Italian Wars he entered the League of Cambrai against Venice and remained an ally of Louis XII of France even after Pope Julius II had made peace with Venice.
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 sons of italy - Online Italy Source   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Ferrari, Gaudenzio - An Italian painter and the greatest master of the Piedmontese School, b.
Italian Unity and Its Heroes But the work of Napoleon had inspired the patriots of Italy with a new sentiment, that of union.
See live article   Humbert II of Italy Humbert II (Italian Umberto II) (September 15, 1904 - March 18, 1983), nicknamed the King of May (Italian Re di Maggio), was the Prince of Piedmont and later the last King of Italy from May 9, 1946 to June 12, 1946.
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 Links for Italian Teachers - Speaking & Pronunciation
Cyber Italian - Alphabet and Pronunciation - Move the mouse over each picture of the 21 letters of the Italian alphabet to listen to the sound of the letter and of the word starting with that letter.
Italian Pronunciation Guide - Move the mouse over each of the vowels to hear a sound file.
Free Italian mp3 audio of native speakers - Phrases are spoken once in English and then spoken twice in Italian, with time in between to repeat aloud.
www.caslt.org /research/itspeak.htm   (258 words)

  
 OGGI E DOMANI INTERACTIVE ITALIAN LANGUAGE COURSE FOR THE INTERNET
To spell a word, particularly on the telephone, Italians refer to the names of cities.
Italian normally is written with only 21 letters.
Unlike English, Italian is written according to fixes phonetic conventions.
academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /modlang/carasi/site/pronuncia/pronuncia.html   (155 words)

  
 The Italingua Institute of the San Francisco Bay Area - School of Italian Language and Culture
Advanced Conversation courses are for students proficient in the Italian language who would like to continue to study Italian and learn and expand their speaking skills.
The arias and stories of Italian opera and the lives of the composers are studied and discussed in class
Private and small group private language lessons are specially tailored to meet the specific needs of the student and they are scheduled according to the availability of the student.
www.italingua.com   (489 words)

  
 Italian Pronunciation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
You love those melodious sounds at the opera, and listening to the voices of those Italian stars in foreign films is an aural thrill.
Usually, Italian words are stressed on the next-to-the-last syllable.
When the final -e is dropped from a word, as happens with some masculine titles when they are directly followed by a proper name, the position of the stress remains unchanged.
www.university-world.com /italy/italian_pronunciation.html   (153 words)

  
 Russianvocabulary.com, The Russian Vocabulary Website, Italian Pronunciation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Other than advice concerning italian pronunciation, you can find the most complete websites related to languages, languages and russian.
Italian language books, exercises, readings on audio cassettes, and other instructional material to improve vocabulary, grammar, listening-comprehension, and pronunciation..
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 italian pronunciation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Italian pronunciation might pose some difficulties for the...
These are foreign letters (rarely used in Italian) and their Italian pronunciation:...
Italian vocabulary and Italian grammar to conversational Italian and correct Italian pronunciation, this special site dedicated to the Italian...
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 Dutton Speedwords: Pronunciation
There are five vowels - a, e, i, o, u - and two diphthongs - au, y (a) The five vowels Each of the vowels has a long and a short sound; Dutton gives the pronunciation as: Long: ah, eh, ee, oh, oo [as in 'moon'] Short: as in - at, get, it, odd, put.
The words illustrating the short sounds are to be understood in their (north?) British pronunciation, i.e.
y has _two_ pronunciations: - when used alone (= 'was') it is pronounced: yoh - elsewhere it is pronounced as igh in might.
www.sys.uea.ac.uk /~jrk/conlang.dir/SpeedwordsSpoken.html   (876 words)

  
 Italian Language, Grammar, Pronunciation, Learn to Speak Italian Software
From Italian vocabulary and Italian grammar to conversational Italian and correct Italian pronunciation, this special site dedicated to the Italian language includes information about language, culture, and Italian software products to help you satisfy your curiosity about all things Italian.
Standard Italian is spoken by Italy's 57 million residents, and is a minority language in Switzerland and Austria, as well as in Somalia, Libya, and Ethiopia, which were once Italian colonies.
With our Italian language learning products, you'll quickly be able to speak Italian, learn Italian vocabulary, conjugate Italian verbs, understand Italian grammar, and master Italian pronunciation, while our Italian translation software will help you translate Italian to English and translate English to Italian.
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 Language Resources
Italian from Italianissmo is a series of multimedia activities for beginners.
An Italian organization dedicated to the teaching of Italian as a second language.
An Italian website dedicated to intercultural education and didactic resources for the teaching of Italian as a second language.
www.fas.harvard.edu /~rll/resources/italian/language_resources.html   (1365 words)

  
 SmartPhrase.com > Italian
Each section is linked to lists of related Italian words with their translations.
Interactive facility to practise your Italian, or simply amuse yourself with randomly-generated humorous Italian phrases.
If you are proficient in Italian, or another of our selected languages, you might like to become a section editor.
www.smartphrase.com /Italian/italian.shtml   (146 words)

  
 Cyber Italian - Alphabet and Pronunciation - © Copyright CyberItalian Inc.
Move the mouse over each picture to listen to the sound of the letter and of the word starting with that letter.
Italian words end with a vowel (except words of foreign origin - e.g.
Remember that dialects and regional accents are a common trait of Italian culture.
www.cyberitalian.com /html/alphabet.htm   (258 words)

  
 Learning Italian.com
Our goal is to introduce the Italian language to pupils from 1st through 12th grade.
She was born and raised in Naples, Italy, and she was a school teacher before moving to the USA.
We are now preparing "Learning Italian - Level -2," where our focus will be to cover more Italian Basics and the beginning of "Italian Conversation." We will open a new Web site soon and keep you informed on how to register.
www.learningitalian.com   (1082 words)

  
 Easy Italian
The basic rule to italian pronunciation: all the letters must be pronounced.
Unfortunately the spelling doesn't indicate where is this stress, except when it falls on the last syllable: a grave accent is then put on the stressed vowel.
It's no use saying that the tonic stress is an essential feature of Italian.
perso.wanadoo.fr /babel-site/italian.htm   (308 words)

  
 AskOxford: Italian Pronunciation Guide
Where a consonant is doubled, the sound is held for twice as long, e.g.
Italian words are usually stressed on the penultimate syllable:
Note that letters, J, K, W, and Y are imported letters and not really part of the Italian alphabet.
www.askoxford.com /languages/it/toi_italian/pronunciation   (133 words)

  
 English to French, Italian, and Spanish Dictionary - WordReference.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The French and Italian dictionaries are also large and growing.
The French dictionary has over 250,000 translations and the Italian dictionary has nearly 200,000.
Supporting the translation dictionaries, we also have language forums where more than 15,000 registered members help one another with questions about grammar, style, linguistics, slang, etymology, pronunciation and translation of words and phrases.
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 Awesome Library - English
Provides lesson plans by grade level in Italian to help students understand what is needed to help end world hunger.
You can, for example, set the voice to Italian and start with www.awesomelibrary.org/italiano.html to see and hear the Web in Italian.
Provides the pronunciation of words, as well as a dictionary.
www.awesomelibrary.org /Classroom/English/Languages/Italian.html   (490 words)

  
 Marketingvocabulary.com // The Marketing Vocabulary Website // Italian Pronunciation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Other than advice related to italian pronunciation, you can view the most reliable websites related to marketing, internet marketing and web marketing.
This makes marketingvocabulary.com the most detailed resource related to italian pronunciation on the web.
Pronunciation practice for children and adults, help with taking the TOEFL examination, and other activities..
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 CÉ Audiomagazines, for Foreign Language Learners--Italian Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Edited by Anthony Oldcorn (Professor Emeritus, Italian Studies at Brown University) and hosted by Lao Petrilli, one of Italy's best-known broadcast journalists, each bimonthly edition is an unbeatable combination of entertaining audio, rich annotation, and challenging pedagogy.
Each hour-long program is packed with interesting news, interviews, music, and features on topics ranging from politics and current affairs to sports, travel, film, and opera--all presented in Italian by native speakers.
STOP PRESS: Italian Audio Flash Cards are a new addition to Acquerello italiano and comprise an audio CD with 100 words and phrases taken from the main program.
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 Champs-Elysées Audiomagazines--French, Italian, German, and Spanish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Join the thousands of intermediate and advanced language students on six continents who use Champs-Elysées, Schau ins Land, Puerta Sol, and Acquerello italiano to stay in touch with the languages and cultures they love.
In addition to translations of difficult words and phrases, the glossaries contain copious biographical, historical, political, and cultural notes prepared by seasoned editors--many of whom also write for some of the world's most prestigious newspapers and magazines.
An optional printed study supplement with listening exercises and grammar drills is also available for each issue of the German, Spanish and Italian programs.
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 italian :: Dictionaries Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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 Free Online Pronunciation Guides with Instant Sound + Dictionary: English + 9 Languages
Free Online Pronunciation Guides with Instant Sound + Dictionary: English + 9 Languages
Online pronunciation guides to 7 varieties of the English language and 9 other languages
Pronunciation of names in English, French, German, Italian
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 CoffeeGeek - Espresso: Questions and Answers, Italian pronunciation: Gah-ZHEE-ah or Gah-zhah...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Don't forget that with double consonants, typically each is pronounced: the first on the end of a syllable, the second on the beginning of the next syllable.
Now, to make it "Italian", make the more defined by moving the tongue further up on the back of your front teeth, and break the "smooth" single tongue gesture into two separate tongue gestures, with a slight pause between 1 and 2:
Tongue is raised and tip stops where roof of mouth meets the back of your top two front teeth (providing you didn't get them knocked out in a bar fight).
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