Italian Course Beginner Series Lesson 18: Double Vowels Video Lecture | Learn Italian Language: For Beginners and Travellers

hello everyone and welcome to another
Italian tutorial today we cover double
vowels in Italian because I think nobody
has ever addressed this so what do you
do with double vowels in English you
have words like cool ok and they are
very common so you have a double vowel
and that produces a certain sound in
order for you to get the most out of
this video you must know how to
pronounce the vowels in Italian if you
don't know then I recommend you watch
the video on the vowels anyway in a
nutshell the Italian vowels and the
Italian sounds that you can make are
only five ah II uh ooh
and we've also said that in Italian you
don't have diphthongs like beer here you
don't have sounds that change throughout
you have very sudden changes so even in
words where you have different vowels
one next to each other for instance in
the word I ear in Italian okay like I
speak I read I ye o it's not here yeah
it's e oh ye oh ye o the two vowels are
pronounced as if they were separate this
is a very famous word to practice with
because you have a lot of vowels close
to each other so it's a very good word
for you to practice
ru wala hai you wala as you can see I'm
pronouncing every single letter as if it
was far apart from the rest of the world
are you all so there's no much linking
that goes into it the first thing that
you have to remember and the first thing
that you have to take away from this
video is that in Italian you don't have
as much linking as you have in English
and you pronounce every single letter
regardless of the context so you
pronounce this word
ile and you pronounce this word ru Allah
okay it doesn't have to be quicker any
than how it is same for this now the
second thing that you want to take away
from this video is that sometimes in
Italian and when I say sometimes I mean
very rarely you get double vowels like
in the word thee this means uncle's and
it's just such a strange word as you can
see I'm not pronouncing that e vowel
like the it's not like that it's d d e e
as if I wanted to pronounce the e twice
e e D okay practice this word I know
it's very tricky but you can make it
other words that and with the double
vowel are very rare and they are often
the first person singular of a very
strange tense that we won't do that we
won't cover in the beginner series
because it's too difficult and it's not
used in most of the Italian country and
as you can see all these words end in E
e there's a double e sound there has to
be pronounced twice it's not twice as
long it's pronounced twice there's also
an exception and when I mean exception I
mean this is the only word in the whole
entire language that does that the word
zu the word zu is foreign so that's why
behaves very strangely and I don't know
where it comes from but it's basically
pronounced so as if there was just one
single Oh duh duh we have looked at the
consonant sound so you should know how
to pronounce Z or at least you should
recognize that this is the Italian Zed
so it's not za
like in zou its zou zou zou I hope you
enjoyed this video and I hope you found
it helpful I will see you in
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