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 C B M Y

Sounding Italian
You’ve probably said piace often enough to know now that the Italian c
before e gives a sound like the English `ch´. You can practise with these
words: piace, dicembre, Cesare, ceci.

And you’ve done enough counting to realise that c gives the same `ch´
sound before i: dieci, cinque, quindici, cappuccino, ceci.

To get this `ch´ sound before a, o and u you need the letter combination ci:
ciao, diciannove, calcio, diciotto, ciuffo.

The letter c gives a hard `k´ sound before a, o and u:

Don’t get yourself into
calcio, musica, cappuccino, cane, romantico, cucù.
a tangle with this; the main
thing to remember is that
To get the hard `k´ sound before e and i you need the letter combination ch: ch always gives the hard
che disastro!, mi chiamo, cherubino, chicco, chinotto. ‘k’ sound in Italian. So go
and buy yourself a bottle
The Italian alphabet has no letter `k´. You will only see this letter in words of chinotto and relax with
a very Italian soft drink.
borrowed from other languages, like kiwi and karate.
Cincin!

Good times
You’ll soon want to give the dates of your birthday and your name
day in Italian. First you need to learn the months of the year. Practise
reciting them with your teacher.

I mesi dell’anno Read the signs

gennaio

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febbraio As with the days of the week,
marzo in Italian you don’t write
the months with a capital
aprile letter – unless they’re at the
beginning of a sentence.
maggio
giugno
luglio
agosto
settembre
ottobre This animated film, advertised
on the back of a bus in Rome, is
novembre about a magical night in summer.
dicembre When does it hit the cinema?

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