Читать книгу 100 Of The Best Curses and Insults In Italian: A Toolkit for the Testy Tourist - Rachel Federman, Chuck Gonzales, Rachel Federman - Страница 5

Spelling and pronouncing Italian are easy once you know the few basic rules. The chart below should help give you a feel for the rhythm of the language:

*c and g are hard except when followed by “e” or “i” — to make them hard in Italian an “h” is added.

Double letters “ss,” “tt,” “ll,” etc. are distinctly pronounced — with a slight pause between the two: posso pos-so, gatto gat-to, pelle pel-lay.

Stress usually falls on the next-to-last syllable. We have indicated the stressed syllable with bold in the pronunciation of the phrases.