Italian Course Beginner Series Lesson 11: GN & GL Video Lecture | Learn Italian Language: For Beginners and Travellers

hello and welcome to a new video
tutorial my name is Claudio and today
I'll be teaching you some Italian today
we're going to do some more
pronunciation we're almost done we've
basically covered all the sounds in
Italian but we still got a few left so
two sounds that are unique of the
Italian language meaning they do not
appear they do not belong to the English
language are the sound new and yeah and
they are always written in the same way
meaning all the words that contain these
combinations of words will have the
corresponding sounds in them for
instance the word whiteboard Lavanya we
see that there's a GN plus a vowel and
every time in Italian you see the word
I'm sorry the letter G and an followed
by a vowel you have to make the same
sound which is the new sound so you can
either be Nia yet new not new okay so
how to make it um basically I've come up
with a way but there are many I suggest
you try on your own first
so pause the video and don't listen to
what I'm about to say and try on your
own if you have failed then try this try
and make the N sound like in know a few
times like multiple times and just with
practice to warm you up n n N and then
try and make the same sound but as a
start-up position basically put your
tongue attach your tongue to the top of
your mouth and try and pronounce the n
sound so you should come up something
like yeah yeah yeah which is pretty
close to what
you're supposed to be doing and it
should sound like this yeah yeah as if a
baby was just complaining and this is
the way the sound works it's going to be
very uncomfortable for you at first but
then you're going to get used to it
let's talk about the second sound now
the second sound works in exactly the
same way so you have the same pattern
you have GL and then I and the bowel
actually is a bit different because the
eye is always there in this case you
have different vowels in the GL case you
have GL I followed by a further vowel
apart from this one case so basically
it's pronounced yeah yeah ye yo u now
the exercise for this sound is pretty
similar to the first one if not the same
so try and practice the L sound like in
flower or lollipop and then try to make
the same sound in isolation so la la la
and then at last try and produce the
same sound but start with your tongue
attached to the top of your mouth
and it should come up something like
yeah yeah let me know in the comments if
you if you manager if you don't people
will help you if you post a comment and
ok guys so this is it practice practice
practice practice makes perfect
and I hope to see you guys in the next
video
take care