LEARN ITALIAN Learn Italian for Beginners in Your Car Like Crazy. Lessons for Travel & Everyday. How to speak Italian with Grammar, Common Phrases, Vocabulary, Conversations and Short Stories.
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ITALIAN GRAMMAR
Learn Italian for Beginners in Your Car Like Crazy. Language Learning Lessons for travel and Everyday.
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INTRODUCTION
Itl h a rih cultural hitr.
INTRODUCTION
Itl h a rih cultural hitr.
It lifestyle, art, fd, wine, fhin, rting vnt, rhittur nd scenic but attract m 40 million turit each r. Th influence of Itl i n vrwhr in Eur td. Td thr r lt f large Itlin king mmunit all vr ur and utrli and there r lnt of rturnt, h nd industries ffring uthnti Italian products. Studnt f Italian hv mn opportunities t u the lngug in everyday lif. There is an bundn of Italian restaurants, businesses nd il gru whr Italian is kn. Knwldg f th Itlin lngug can open dr t a wid rng f mlmnt rtuniti in th mmril, educational, intifi, chemical, utmtiv and hospitality fild.
It l rvid access t a rih ultur knwn thrughut th wrld for it ntributin to art, rhittur, mui, bllt, literature, film, fhin nd f ur, fd! thrugh th centuries, Italian inventors uh Marconi nd Glil, mr lik Vivaldi nd Vrdi, t uh as Dnt Alighieri, film dirtr uh Fellini and Rllini, rtit lik Mihlngl nd Lnrd d Vini, as wll as thr grt rtit, hilhr, muiin nd dignr have had a rfund influn n th wrld. Today, Itl continues t set trnd and i synonymous with fashion and tl. Dignr uh Valentino nd Armani are wll known ll vr the wrld, r sporting rnliti uh Valentino Ri nd Frn Totti. Muiin/ ng writers lik Er Ramazzotti, Lur Puini nd Andrea Blli, as wll tr Rbrt Begnini nd Monica Bellucci hv turd th hrt f young nd ld ll vr th world. Italian i a rltivl language t lrn bu f its imilrit t Englih. Both Englih nd Itlin r drivd frm Latin so they hr a similar sentence structure.
Italian is writtn in Rmn rit i Englih, but th Italian lhbt nl h a twenty-one letters. Studing Itlin also rvid the background fr further studies f other Rmn lngug, uh as French, Snih nd Prtugu. MANY ITALIAN WRD HAVE BEEN DTD B TH ENGLIH LNGUG. HW MN OF TH WRD D U KNOW? Pt - risotto Prt - pizza Mintrn - rn Glt - fi Or - antipasto Chiaroscuro - vndtt Bruschetta - tm Ci - mozzarella Adgi - gndl Lgn - llgr
CHAPTER 1 : THE ALPHABET AND THE BASIC SOUNDS
Th mdrn Italian lhbt h l lttr than th Englih n: J, K, W, X and Y d nt occur in ntiv terms. Nevertheless, th lttr do appear in ditinri, fr archaic lling, nd for a fw frign nd intrntinl terms ffiill dtd in Itlin, wll. Th fllwing table includes these letters t, though hwing them in d grn, t tr their l common u.
Each entry hw the pronounciation f th letter in Italian, trying t make th closest mth with English und. An imrtnt thing to rmmbr i tht all th Itlin vwl r clipped, i.. their duration, r und lngth, i vr hrt, mrd t the average English vowels. Th lt lumn n the right hw th "name" f h letter, i.. wht they r called in Itlin.
a |
B | Always as n Englih b. | bi |
C | A an English k, except whn the fllwing vwl is e r i: in this it und as th English cluster h in ht, hi, chisel. | bi |
C | A an English k, except whn the fllwing vwl is e r i: in this it und as th English cluster h in ht, hi, chisel. Th lttr c l frm m special clusters, diud in the fllwing g. | ci |
D | Always as n Englih d. | di |
E | Dnding on th word, it m hv two slightly different sounds: ithr as an English a in h, lr, m (thi i popularly called a nrrw "e" or closed ""), r n Englih e in nd, tnt, hen (thi n i popularly lld a wide "" or n ""). T mark thi diffrn, tw diffrnt accents r ld above the vowel: n ut nt, lntd rightwrd (), giv th "closed" und , whil th grave nt, slanted lftwrd (), giv the "open" und. Unlike in Frnh, in Itlin accented vwl such as nd r ud vr ringl: mt words r spelled with n rdinr . Obviul, for the kn lngug, th rrt und mut be remembered. But the student huld not worry about thi t muh: in most cases, a word rnund with n inrrt und (fr example a wid "" in l f a narrow "") would be undrtd ll th same. | e (narrow sound) |
F | Alw n Englih f in fm, knif, flut, but nvr lik f. | effe |
G | As n English g in gravel, goblet, except in thr : whn fllwd by vowels e nd i, it und English j in jelly, jigw; whn fllwd b n, frming lutr gn (diud in th following page); whn fllwd b l, forming lutr gl (diud in th following g). | gi |
H | It is mltl undl: never in house, hope, hmmr, but as in hir, hnt. Its u will be xlind furthr on. It l tk rt t il clusters, discussed in th fllwing g. But h | acca |
I | It always und as n English y in llw, trn. A imilr und is tht f Englih in flt, m, but th lngth f th Itlin sound i hrtr. | i |
J | A few nm have a letter j, lw pronounced an English y in ll, lwr. | i lunga |
K | In frign r intrntinl wrd, it always sounds n English k. | kappa |
L | Alw English l. | emme |
N | Alw as an Englih n. | enne |
O | Alw an English o, in m cases with a "nrrw" r "ld" und in blow, ul, rw, or mtim with a "wid" r "n" und in lth, spot, dg. | enne |
O | Alw an English o, in m cases with a "nrrw" r "ld" und in blow, ul, rw, or mtim with a "wid" r "n" und in lth, spot, dg. |
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