意大利词汇学习:学习第一课
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Lesson 1 This Week’s New Words: ciao - hello, goodbye (familiar) salve - hello addio - goodbye bene - well egli - he (literary) lui - he (common speech), him ella - she (literary) lei - she (common speech), her esso - it (masculine) essa - it (feminine) essi - they (persons or things) loro - them (persons or things), they (common speech, persons) grazie - thank you spiacente - I’m sorry noi - us, we (plural) signore - sir, mister, mr. signora - madame, mrs. signorina - miss tu - you (informal) voi - you (plural, formal and informal) io - I Numbers 1-10 0 zero 1 uno 2 due 3 tre 4 quattro 5 cinque 6 sei 7 sette 8 otto 9 nove 10 dieci Pronunciation The Italian alphabet is fairly similar to our own (English, or depending on where you’re from, American). The letters K,J,W,X,Y occur only in foreign origin words. Each lesson will explain a few more letters. This week, I’ll explain the interesting letters (or combinations thereof) from this week’s words (above). gli The gli (followed or not by another vowel) in Italian is pronounced more or less as ll in Spanish However there are words like glicine (flower name), negligente, anglicano in which, for etymological reasons, g and l are pronounced as two separate sounds as in English. Thus, the Italian word coniglio (rabbit) is pronounced like conihlyo. and the word conigli (rabbits) is pronounced like conihli. gn The gn is the same sound as Spanish ? i.e. is the same sound as the ny pair in the word canyon. Thus, signore is pronounced like sin-yore. h The Italian h is always silent and as such an Italian speaker won’t pronounce it when it occurs in foreign origin words (e.g. hotel). Moreover the letter h in Italian occurs only in the groups ch and gh (see below) and in the present tense of the verb to have. Thus, ho ( [I] have ) is pronounced o and hanno ( [they] have) is pronounced anno, the same as the word anno (year). a, e, i, o, u The Italian vowels have only one sound, regardless of what letters they precede or follow, or accent marks on the vowel, with the (minor) exception of e and o. 相关资料 |
