Italian Course Beginner Series 2: ITALIAN easier than ENGLISH? Video Lecture | Learn Italian Language: For Beginners and Travellers

hello and welcome to another video
tutorial my name is claudio and today we
cover pronunciation and spelling now
this is going to be one of the most
important videos in the whole entire
course and the reason for this is that i
will basically tell you the reason why
italian is so easy to read and easy to
speak basically when it comes to
pronunciation and pronouncing words
italian is one of the easiest languages
on earth anyway so let's get started as
you can see we have a list we have
there's a little list our compiled en
stands for English and ITA
stands for Italian surprisingly enough
and so in this first scenario on the top
we have the letter A so we take into
consideration the letter A in both
languages so in English with the letter
A you can generate and make different
sounds you can have different sounds for
instance the word cat here the letter A
reads ah but in the word court here the
letter A together with the letter you
read or and here because of the our that
comes after it reads are instead of a so
basically with the letter A in English
you can make many different sounds so
when you see the letter A in a word you
can't just read it you have to keep into
account the cut the context the context
is very important in Italian with the
letter A you can only make one sound the
sound ah and we will have a look at the
same
are the Italian sounds later on the
message that I'm trying to get across
here is that in Italian there is
one-to-one correspondence between sounds
and spelling so basically you have rules
and if you follow the rules you can
pretty much read everything and you
don't need to know a word in advance in
order for you to be able to pronounce I
could show you an Italian word that you
never seen before and you would be able
to pronounce if you know the rules let's
have a look at a second case in this
case we are going to think about one
sound so not one letter one sound the
sound sir like in C and we can see that
in English you can write it in different
ways so the letter s like in silver the
letter P and the letter s like in psycho
and the SS like in associate so we have
oh and let's see as well I so see it so
we have many different ways of making
the same sound in Italian if you are
given a sound then there's only one way
to write it and that way is with the
letter s like in the world spaghetti so
I know that this can strike as weird but
yes it's true it's very different the
Italian language is very different from
English in many different ways and of
course one of the ways is that you have
rules for pronouncing words so it's
going to be a lot easier for you to
learn how to speak and write properly
tallien and read proper Italian and I'm
just going to teach you how in in the
next few videos I hope you have found
this video helpful I'm really looking
forward to seeing you guys in the next
one and until then take care