This is one of your best videos showing how important the proper stress is to convey the meaning of a word. I wish Italian used more accents ( like you do in this video) to help us learners hear, see, and practice the differences you highlight.
Hi Manu, I just found you on TH-cam. Love your videos. I'm 71 years old from the USA and hope to visit Italy once this pandemic is over or under control. Trying to learn Italian at my age is a challenge but I'm enjoying trying and you are a great help! Thank you.
Grazie, Manu! The difference between the spoken open and closed vowels is subtle (to this English-speaking person's ear). I hear it clearly when you pronounce individual words, but it becomes harder in the context of a sentence at the speed of normal speech. It's difficult also to make this distinction when the words are written without accent marks. Fascinating list! (Ben fatto, pesce!) Bravo, Manu!
Love love love love this one hehe 😊 Super fun and helpful too. I did know the botte one though, from Intermediate Level 1 with the comprehension video of Manu in his old room with the dictionary hehe 😊
Anne Quieti, the problem for me is that northern Italians generally do not distinguish between closed and open vowels. As a university student, I spent two years in Cremona, a city in the North. As a result, I never learned these subtle differentiations of open and closed vowels (with some exceptions), as well as never properly learned to conjugate in “”passato remoto” which is never used in Northern speech.
Thank you so much for these valuable lessons! I minored in Italian many years ago, in the 1990's and even studied in Roma. I've forgotten almost everything, but with the help of these videos and your podcast, I am getting refreshed and it is so much fun!! The comprehension is coming much quicker than the spoken or written aspect. I am seriously considering taking all of your formal courses. I am very grateful for all of this wonderful content!
I believe in your theory of foreign language learning. I know that it's controversial to what most the scholars said on the theory of language acquisition. But from my own experience, I totally agree with you. You are an excellent language teacher. Thank you Manu.
I have been wondering about the direction of the accents and why they aren't always angled the same way. It is a very subtle thing, but this sort of lesson is quite helpful. Grazie, Manu!
@@italymadeeasy mi sembrano davvero tutti importante, ma gli esempli di "colla" sono fantastico. Mi ho piaciuto molto la frase "Colla violenza non si risolve mai nulla". Sto imparando l'italiano 2 mesi fa e guardare questo video mi aiuta veramente!
Do not worry about it! It's important to know that there are different sounds... but keep in mind that not all Italians use these sounds ... many sounds change a bit from region to region! So no matter if you can't produce these sounds exactly as Manu did in the video! 😉
Grazie mille Manu. Questo video era come toccare un dente doloroso! Anche dopo molti anni di studi italiani, mi sento ancora insicuro nella mia pronuncia. Lavorerò molto su questo video.
Posso gentilmente chiederti una questione. Talvolta vedo che l'ultimo 'E' di un verbo è rimuovoto. Per esempio aver invece di avere o lasciar invece di lasciare. C'è una regala per questo?
Solitamente un verbo all'infinito perde la "e" finale per facilitare la pronuncia e rendere i suoni più gradevoli da ascoltare. I casi più comuni sono 2: 1) Quando c'è INFINITO+INFINITO (Es: Non mi piace DOVER PRENDERE l'autobus). 2) Quando c'è INFINITO DI AVERE+PARTICIPIO PASSATO (Es: Ho dormito a lungo dopo AVER GUARDATO un film)
Questo è un video molto interessante! Ho già imparato il concetto delle vocali aperte e chiuse, ma questa lista in maggior parte è stata nuova per me! Non posso scegliere una parola che mi piace di più. 😅 Ma grazie per la tua creatività! Questa era molto utile!! Grazie Manu!!! 👍🏻👍🏻
Are the terms “closed” and “open” used back to front in this video? The accents appear to be correct but the grave accent is described here as “open” and the acute accent as “closed”...
Open “e” sounds like the “e” in “jet”. Closed “e” sounds like the “a” in “chain” or in “Maine”. Open “o” sounds like the “Au” in “August”, closed “o” like the “o” in “okay” (i'm referring to the American english pronunciation ).
Until recently, we have not been seeing much about open and close vowels. It's good to see more teachers/tutors addressing it now, but it should be done from the start...it is harder to correct pronunciation after the mistake becomes a habit. The pronunciation symbol for it would also be helpful... [ˈmente] closed, [ˈmɛnte] open [ˈmolto] closed , [ˈɔka] open
Ho tre domande: 1) If an English speaker uses the incorrect open or closed e when speaking Italian, what does it sound like to a native Italian? Does it just sound like an accent, or completely like they are saying the word wrong? 2) Is it just a matter of memorizing the words to know when to use an open or closed e if it's not written with an accent? 3) Is buonanotte with a closed, or open o? You describe everything so well and clearly. Grazie mille Manu!
@@italymadeeasy Grazie per aver capito lo spirito del mio commento! Infatti non volevo affatto interferire con il tuo ottimo ed esplicativo video. Bravo!
@@MissJayster Mi dispiace che non riesci a vederlo, ma ho controllato e mi sembra che il mio commento sia normalmente visibile. Posso scriverlo di nuovo qui sotto. 1) As a native speaking Italian, I can tell you that if you don't use the correct open or closed vowels, no one notices (because many Italians don't perceive the difference) or you seem to speak with a little nuance of a specific area of Italy (North or South, for example ). In any case, in everyday speech, the meaning of the word is more recognizable from the context of the sentence, than from the accent of the single word. But for a good knowledge of the Italian language it's worth knowing this theory of the difference between open and closed vowels. So, good job Manu! 2) Unfortunately you can't tell the pronunciation from the way of writing the word, since, as you say, the accent is not usually written. You have to check the pronunciation in a dictionary and memorize it. I suggest you the Treccani online dictionary (see next point). 3) Buonanòtte is with open "o", as Treccani online dictionary also says: www.treccani.it/vocabolario/ricerca/buonanotte/
Grazie Manu, sono Messicana Americana e studio l'italiano già da 2 anni. Penso che dobbiamo cercare il contesto nella frase. Lo sento, per esempio, con Arèna ed l'Arena il secondo ha più enfasi sulla R. Non sono sicura di averlo scritto correttamente, penso che mia parla è un po' meglio che mia scrittura.
interesting - but not important to learn, because the different meanings will always be clear from the context (not to mention how different regions tend to pronounce these sounds)
The o's are easy to distinguish. But I would like to hear you just pronounce the closed e and the open e, one after another without putting them in actual words. I am having trouble hearing the exact difference - only in the words arena and credo can I hear a distinct difference because one definitely sounds like "AY" and the other sounds like what sounds like EH. Maybe if I listen over and over again to this video I will be able to hear the difference better in the other words but so far I'm having some trouble!
Thank you for your useful feedback and suggestion, Marlene! Surely, if you listen to the video over and over, it will be easier to hear the different sounds. It is normal to have some difficulties at the beginning, especially if these sounds are not that common in your native language or dialect. You can do it! 💪
Scusami Vincenzo ma sei in errore, D è sempre Re come G è sempre Sol e via così, In qualsiasi chiave tu stia suonando, A seconda del sistema usato tu sai che il brano inizia in chiave di... diciamo Sol, e allora sai che il Fa sarà Diesis, se sei inglese ti dico che il brano è im G Key and so you k'now that the F is Sharp.
@@sandrogattorno4962 Sandro, Grazie per tua opinione, ma clicca sul link sotto per osservare la scala di G maggiore (per essempio), in cui "RE" è "A", "SOL" è "D" e "TI" è F# (the major seventh). Or simply Google "do re mi G major scale". L'intera topico di do re mi fa confusione inutile. E si, inglese è la mia lingua nativa, but I fail to see what that has to do with anything. La scala maggiore non varia dipendente alla lingua. Root [do] , second [re], major-3rd [mi], 4th [fa], 5th [sol], 6th [la], major-7th [ti], octave[do]. And unlike yourself, I'm scrupulously avoiding the ad hominem (Latino) declaration, "sei in errore." www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2F346426-1073510-raikfcquaxqncofqfm.stackpathdns.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F06%2FG-Major-Solfege-Table.png&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.allaboutmusictheory.com%2Fmajor-scale%2Fg-major-scale%2F&tbnid=YU8Ncf_m4eFzOM&vet=12ahUKEwjspu-wwaDtAhXRAJ0JHcaJB00QMygGegUIARC1AQ..i&docid=CJhrShcqjPz5BM&w=1080&h=179&q=do%20re%20mi%20scale%20key%20of%20G&client=firefox-b-1-d&ved=2ahUKEwjspu-wwaDtAhXRAJ0JHcaJB00QMygGegUIARC1AQ
I find it difficult to remember when to use which 😅😭 in my native Hungarian e is like the Italian è, and é is like the Italian e or é. So confusing haha
I am also Hungarian and I found it very difficult to hear open and closed e. But your explanation helped me. My husband who is trying to learn Hungarian finds it difficult to pronounce e and é
The long "a" in "age" is actually a diphthong: eh-ee. No Italian vowels are diphthongs. But the closed "e" is somewhat close to that sound (but without the double component). Maybe Manu or a member of his team can elaborate.
No one has ever explained the accents pronunciations. Only that they ARE accents. What I leaned from this video is: É is pronounced “ey” È is pronounced “eh”
Okay, even deeper, I was thinking like "te la compro(not comprato)" . I just wasn't really paying attention to the verb tense, I still do that a lot.:)
This is one of your best videos showing how important the proper stress is to convey the meaning of a word. I wish Italian used more accents ( like you do in this video) to help us learners hear, see, and practice the differences you highlight.
Grazie, questi sono utilissimo
Hi Manu, I just found you on TH-cam. Love your videos. I'm 71 years old from the USA and hope to visit Italy once this pandemic is over or under control. Trying to learn Italian at my age is a challenge but I'm enjoying trying and you are a great help!
Thank you.
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Thank you so much
Arizona Here Love ya And tryin
Grazie mille Maggie!
Fabulous!...as usual. Grazie
Grazie a te, as usual 😍
Amazing Manu. You are really good
Thank you so much, Steffi! 😁
Grazie, Manu! The difference between the spoken open and closed vowels is subtle (to this English-speaking person's ear). I hear it clearly when you pronounce individual words, but it becomes harder in the context of a sentence at the speed of normal speech. It's difficult also to make this distinction when the words are written without accent marks. Fascinating list! (Ben fatto, pesce!) Bravo, Manu!
Grazie mille, Gatto Nero! Sei sempre presente con parole gentili. Grazie per il costante supporto! 😘
@@italymadeeasy Di nulla -- grazie a te!
Very nice lesson list the right length of sessiom
thank you, Peter! 🙏🤗
Very amusing.
Non posso sentire la differenza tra i suoni ma e molto interessante sapere di queste parole simili.😊
Very useful but quite challenging for this southern English native speaker. Many thanks!
Love love love love this one hehe 😊 Super fun and helpful too.
I did know the botte one though, from Intermediate Level 1 with the comprehension video of Manu in his old room with the dictionary hehe 😊
Very well produced video. Thank you.
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Very interesting. Whilst I might not hear the difference in all examples, it was useful to see the words in contex. Thank you very much Manu.
Anne Quieti, the problem for me is that northern Italians generally do not distinguish between closed and open vowels. As a university student, I spent two years in Cremona, a city in the North. As a result, I never learned these subtle differentiations of open and closed vowels (with some exceptions), as well as never properly learned to conjugate in “”passato remoto” which is never used in Northern speech.
Thank you so much for these valuable lessons! I minored in Italian many years ago, in the 1990's and even studied in Roma. I've forgotten almost everything, but with the help of these videos and your podcast, I am getting refreshed and it is so much fun!! The comprehension is coming much quicker than the spoken or written aspect. I am seriously considering taking all of your formal courses. I am very grateful for all of this wonderful content!
Evviva!!! Grazie mille, wendy mazursky! Visit us on italymadeeasy.com, you will find all the information to learn Italian with us! Un abbraccio 😘
This makes so much sense, and I can definitely hear the difference now that I know what to listen for! Grazie!
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Ottima molto utile sempre
هُنَاكَ فَرْقٌ فِي النُّطْقِ كَمَا قُلْتَ تَمَامًا. شُكْرًا جَزِيلًا عَلَىٰ تَقْدِيمِكَ لِهَٰذَا الدَّرْسِ الْمُفِيدِ وَالْمُثِيرِ جِدًّا لِلْاِهْتِمَامِ، يَا أَيُّهَا الْمُدَرِّسُ الرَّائِعُ مَانُو.
Wow, super interesting but tricky. The example sentences are super helpful
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I believe in your theory of foreign language learning. I know that it's controversial to what most the scholars said on the theory of language acquisition. But from my own experience, I totally agree with you. You are an excellent language teacher. Thank you Manu.
Thank you!
I have been wondering about the direction of the accents and why they aren't always angled the same way. It is a very subtle thing, but this sort of lesson is quite helpful. Grazie, Manu!
Questa lezione e placevole👍😊
Ciao Rosa, grazie mille! Conoscevi già qualcuna di queste differenze? 😊
@@italymadeeasy si
Benissimo 😉
Grazie Manu, tutti sono utilissimi , 🙋♀️
Wow, you are amazing! I just found your site and your podcasts and this channel and I love it so much. Thank you!!
Thank you so much, Pina Rosana Porceddu!😊
Grazie mille Manu! Questo é veramente molto utile!
Evviva!!! Grazie mille, Veronica Gutierrez! Quali esempi ti sono piaciuti di più? 😊
@@italymadeeasy mi sembrano davvero tutti importante, ma gli esempli di "colla" sono fantastico. Mi ho piaciuto molto la frase "Colla violenza non si risolve mai nulla".
Sto imparando l'italiano 2 mesi fa e guardare questo video mi aiuta veramente!
Non credo di aver mai visto un video su quest'argomento prima, perlomeno sui canali d'italiano che seguo io. grazie mille, manu.
Che bel messaggio!
Grazie mille per il tuo supporto!😊
Thanks for this video. Wow that was tough. I hear the difference but surely cannot produce the sounds, at least not repeatedly.
Do not worry about it! It's important to know that there are different sounds... but keep in mind that not all Italians use these sounds ... many sounds change a bit from region to region! So no matter if you can't produce these sounds exactly as Manu did in the video! 😉
Molto bene!
Grazie mille Manu. Questo video era come toccare un dente doloroso! Anche dopo molti anni di studi italiani, mi sento ancora insicuro nella mia pronuncia. Lavorerò molto su questo video.
Grazie a te, Terry! Grazie per il continuo supporto! A presto 😘
You are favoloso!
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Posso gentilmente chiederti una questione. Talvolta vedo che l'ultimo 'E' di un verbo è rimuovoto. Per esempio aver invece di avere o lasciar invece di lasciare. C'è una regala per questo?
Solitamente un verbo all'infinito perde la "e" finale per facilitare la pronuncia e rendere i suoni più gradevoli da ascoltare. I casi più comuni sono 2:
1) Quando c'è INFINITO+INFINITO (Es: Non mi piace DOVER PRENDERE l'autobus).
2) Quando c'è INFINITO DI AVERE+PARTICIPIO PASSATO (Es: Ho dormito a lungo dopo AVER GUARDATO un film)
@@italymadeeasy Grazie mille! Ora io lo capisco molto bene! 😀
Grazie a te 😘
:)Ciao Manu. Grazie per la lezione. Sei divertente...😄
Grazie a te! 😍
hello, I like to your videos. but I have a question how do you know when to use al in Italian? Also nello,nel and nella?
Ciao! Please remember that "al, nello, nel and nella" are "preposizioni articolate" 😉 -> prepositions + articles
Questo è un video molto interessante! Ho già imparato il concetto delle vocali aperte e chiuse, ma questa lista in maggior parte è stata nuova per me! Non posso scegliere una parola che mi piace di più. 😅 Ma grazie per la tua creatività! Questa era molto utile!! Grazie Manu!!! 👍🏻👍🏻
Grazie per la fiducia e per l'impegno Diane Selkregg. Continua a seguirci, un abbraccio 😘
Are the terms “closed” and “open” used back to front in this video? The accents appear to be correct but the grave accent is described here as “open” and the acute accent as “closed”...
Not to mention the é and è.... First time to hear....beginner 😁
😂Don't worry! Try, with time, to memorize the 2 different usages, okay? 😊
@@italymadeeasy trying 😁
How about pesca (peach) and pesca (fishing)?
Perfect examples 😉
I thought I had a pretty good ear but I can barely tell the difference between the open and closed e in these words.
I’d say it’s the difference between “pet” and the beginning sound of the word “ate”. It might not be perfect Italian sound, but it’s pretty close.
@@saludares99 Thanks- that's helpful.
Open “e” sounds like the “e” in “jet”. Closed “e” sounds like the “a” in “chain” or in “Maine”. Open “o” sounds like the “Au” in “August”, closed “o” like the “o” in “okay” (i'm referring to the American english pronunciation ).
@@letiziac5492 Grazie!
it is not easy
Pronto 👆🏼
Un abbracio.🌺
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Until recently, we have not been seeing much about open and close vowels. It's good to see more teachers/tutors addressing it now, but it should be done from the start...it is harder to correct pronunciation after the mistake becomes a habit. The pronunciation symbol for it would also be helpful... [ˈmente] closed, [ˈmɛnte] open [ˈmolto] closed , [ˈɔka] open
Complimenti, you know the International Phonetic Alphabet 💪 Bravissima 😘
Only a few symbols, very few!
That was hard but I'm sure with more practise I will get it right.
Surely! 💪
I find it difficult to hear and to produce the different sounds. Fortunately, we can use context to tell the difference most of the time.
Bravissima! The use of the context is always a good idea 😉
Ho tre domande: 1) If an English speaker uses the incorrect open or closed e when speaking Italian, what does it sound like to a native Italian? Does it just sound like an accent, or completely like they are saying the word wrong? 2) Is it just a matter of memorizing the words to know when to use an open or closed e if it's not written with an accent? 3) Is buonanotte with a closed, or open o? You describe everything so well and clearly. Grazie mille Manu!
Wow Franco, thank you so much for your great reply and support to MissJayster! A presto 😘
@@italymadeeasy Grazie per aver capito lo spirito del mio commento! Infatti non volevo affatto interferire con il tuo ottimo ed esplicativo video. Bravo!
@@francop7342 Mi dispiace, ma il tuo commento con la tua risposta alla mia domanda è sparito! Puoi riscriverlo per favore?
@@MissJayster Mi dispiace che non riesci a vederlo, ma ho controllato e mi sembra che il mio commento sia normalmente visibile. Posso scriverlo di nuovo qui sotto.
1) As a native speaking Italian, I can tell you that if you don't use the correct open or closed vowels, no one notices (because many Italians don't perceive the difference) or you seem to speak with a little nuance of a specific area of Italy (North or South, for example ). In any case, in everyday speech, the meaning of the word is more recognizable from the context of the sentence, than from the accent of the single word. But for a good knowledge of the Italian language it's worth knowing this theory of the difference between open and closed vowels. So, good job Manu!
2) Unfortunately you can't tell the pronunciation from the way of writing the word, since, as you say, the accent is not usually written. You have to check the pronunciation in a dictionary and memorize it. I suggest you the Treccani online dictionary (see next point).
3) Buonanòtte is with open "o", as Treccani online dictionary also says: www.treccani.it/vocabolario/ricerca/buonanotte/
@@francop7342 Grazie mille Franco! Posso vederlo, e questo è veramente utile
I'm loving the videos, but dammed if I could hear the difference between the open and closed vowels! Sadly, they sounded exactly the same to me:)
Don't worry too much about vowels; also for natives, often, is not easy. Try to focus on the 2 different meaning 😉
Grazie Manu, sono Messicana Americana e studio l'italiano già da 2 anni. Penso che dobbiamo cercare il contesto nella frase. Lo sento, per esempio, con Arèna ed l'Arena il secondo ha più enfasi sulla R. Non sono sicura di averlo scritto correttamente, penso che mia parla è un po' meglio che mia scrittura.
Esatto Yara! Il contesto è fondamentale per capire qual è il giusto significato!!! 😊
Is there any logic behind why sometimes the 1st person singular is chosen for a noun and why sometimes the 3rd person singular is?
Io imparo l'italiano perchè io amo l'opera. Puoi fare qualche altro video sull'opera?
Prenderemo in considerazione il tuo suggerimento! 😊
interesting - but not important to learn, because the different meanings will always be clear from the context (not to mention how different regions tend to pronounce these sounds)
I got confused at accetta already hahaha
Hi Manu, I can't really hear the difference in the "a" words: affetto, accetta
O. M. G
Molto interessante e utile. Sapevo delle le parole, ma non tutti. La razza significa qualsiasi pesce, no? Mandero a mio fratello, la pescatore!
Ciao Christy. La "razza" è un tipo SPECIFICO di pesce 😉
Interesting but hard to hear the difference
It's hard, you're right! Did you already know any of these words? 😉
@@italymadeeasy few...
But i knew sei...riso
The o's are easy to distinguish. But I would like to hear you just pronounce the closed e and the open e, one after another without putting them in actual words. I am having trouble hearing the exact difference - only in the words arena and credo can I hear a distinct difference because one definitely sounds like "AY" and the other sounds like what sounds like EH. Maybe if I listen over and over again to this video I will be able to hear the difference better in the other words but so far I'm having some trouble!
Thank you for your useful feedback and suggestion, Marlene! Surely, if you listen to the video over and over, it will be easier to hear the different sounds. It is normal to have some difficulties at the beginning, especially if these sounds are not that common in your native language or dialect. You can do it! 💪
Caro Manu, "Re" è la seconda nota nella scala maggiore, ma non è per forza "D". È "D"soltanto nella chiave di "C".
Wow, grazie per la spiegazione. Sei un esperto di musica? 😍
@@italymadeeasy Prego. Sono musicista chi piace suonare la tastiera e di comporre pezzi de musica. "Esperto" è forse un po' estremo.
Essere musicista è già bellissimo, complimenti! 😍
Scusami Vincenzo ma sei in errore, D è sempre Re come G è sempre Sol e via così, In qualsiasi chiave tu stia suonando, A seconda del sistema usato tu sai che il brano inizia in chiave di... diciamo Sol, e allora sai che il Fa sarà Diesis, se sei inglese ti dico che il brano è im G Key and so you k'now that the F is Sharp.
@@sandrogattorno4962
Sandro,
Grazie per tua opinione, ma clicca sul link sotto per osservare la scala di G maggiore (per essempio), in cui "RE" è "A", "SOL" è "D" e "TI" è F# (the major seventh). Or simply Google "do re mi G major scale". L'intera topico di do re mi fa confusione inutile. E si, inglese è la mia lingua nativa, but I fail to see what that has to do with anything. La scala maggiore non varia dipendente alla lingua. Root [do] , second [re], major-3rd [mi], 4th [fa], 5th [sol], 6th [la], major-7th [ti], octave[do]. And unlike yourself, I'm scrupulously avoiding the ad hominem (Latino) declaration, "sei in errore."
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Hahaha the credo example is a bit a extreme lololll made me laugh between all the normal basic examples
Ahah we used an impressive sentence, eh? 😂
I'm from Poland and I also barely hear the difference between the open and close "e" :D
Don't worry, Marta! Try to focus on the 2 different meaning 😉
Ayayáy!!!
I find it difficult to remember when to use which 😅😭 in my native Hungarian e is like the Italian è, and é is like the Italian e or é. So confusing haha
You're right! 😂 Don't worry, practice and time will help you 💪
I am also Hungarian and I found it very difficult to hear open and closed e. But your explanation helped me. My husband who is trying to learn Hungarian finds it difficult to pronounce e and é
I can hear the difference when you pronounce botte 👍
Complimenti!! 😊
Sorry I can't hear any difference, maybe try it more slowly and emphasise the difference. The verb sounds a bit like accatta if anything
Don't worry, with practice it will be easier 😊
Hunāka farq-un fī al-nnuṭqi kamā qulta tamām-an. Šukr-an ǧazīl-an `alá taqdīmika li-hádhā al-ddarsi al-mufīdi wāl-muthīri ǧidd-an lil-ihtimāmi, yā 'ayyuhā al-mudarrisu al-rrā'i`u Mānū.
Come mai riesco a memorizzare questo argomento???
Qualche e suona quasi come la i, fik in olandese, ma quale delle due parole? Aiutami!!!
Non preoccuparti troppo del suono, per il momento. Prova a memorizzare i due differenti utilizzi, che ne pensi? 😊
Molto difficile... La mia mente sta lottando
Hai ragione! 😂Quali sono le coppie più strane per te, Jackie? 😊
@@italymadeeasy le botte e la botte? L'esca e esca?
Coppie non facili, è proprio vero! 🙈
La pronuncia di È è come “egg” in inglese e poi E’ è come “age” in inglese, giusto?
The long "a" in "age" is actually a diphthong: eh-ee. No Italian vowels are diphthongs. But the closed "e" is somewhat close to that sound (but without the double component). Maybe Manu or a member of his team can elaborate.
one is a connection one is a colleague?
Correct! 😉 "Colleague" (noun) and "to connect" (verb)
Sento la differenza tra le due forme di pronunciare queste paroline ma come ricordare dopo se si pronunciava in una forma o nell'altra.🤣
Sorry Manu I can’t hear the difference!
I can't either...
I find it really easy to both hear and pronounce them differently.
Bravo, Skeptic! Complimenti! Un abbraccione!
No one has ever explained the accents pronunciations. Only that they ARE accents. What I leaned from this video is:
É is pronounced “ey”
È is pronounced “eh”
Ciao, Manu. If only I could mentally see the diacritical marks!!!!
😂it would be great, eh?
Fun fuct in italian most of those signs are mandatory not to be shown
I cant hear the difference 😢
Sei davvero cattivo! LOL
Ma no, dai! 😂
"Ma che razza di bicicletta ti sei comprato?" Why 'ti' and not the reflexive pronoun 'te'?
Sorry... we do not understand your question... "ti" is a reflexive pronoun or an Indirect Object Pronoun (depending on the context)...
@@italymadeeasy I have to drill deeper into my head with this, I was getting confused with " te la comprato". Grazie per aver risposto.🤙
Okay, even deeper, I was thinking like "te la compro(not comprato)" . I just wasn't really paying attention to the verb tense, I still do that a lot.:)
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Nope, can’t hear the difference
Not easy, don't worry 😉 It's important to know the different usages, ok?
Ho sentito la differenza. Grazie Manu
Complimenti! 😊
@@italymadeeasy I agree, perhaps consider emphasizing the difference with a similar English example too for comparison.