{"id":779,"date":"2015-06-11T16:54:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T16:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.culturediscovery.com\/tuscany-umbria-cooking-vacation-blog\/?p=779"},"modified":"2019-04-23T22:51:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T22:51:52","slug":"basic-guide-pronouncing-foods-italian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.culturediscovery.com\/blog\/culture\/basic-guide-pronouncing-foods-italian\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic Guide to Pronouncing Foods in Italian"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Learning a new language is terrifying. All the pronunciation rules you know and love in English are entirely irrelevant in this new language, its like being in primary school all over again.<\/p>\n<p>Right now Sam and I are preparing for a trip to Israel, so naturally we are trying to learn some key words &#8211; I&#8217;m talking super basic stuff here, okay (hello, goodbye, food, water, bathroom, coffee) basics. Granted Hebrew might be a little extra hard because of the different characters, but I AM TERRIBLE AT IT. My only saving grace was a short phonetic guide sounding out each syllable so I <em>might&nbsp;<\/em>have a chance and getting close to saying the word correctly.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second phonetic guide I am posting for you, highlighting every Italian persons favorite thing&#8230;<strong>FOOD<\/strong>! I also threw in some basic phrases for you at the end. My last post highlighted <a title=\"Greetings, Directions, Shopping, and Numbers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.culturediscovery.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/helpful-italian-words-phrases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greetings, Directions, Shopping, and Numbers.&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;Before that, I wrote out a <a title=\"basic guide to Italian pronunciation \" href=\"https:\/\/www.culturediscovery.com\/blog\/travel-tips\/speak-italian-local-pronunciation-grammar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">basic guide to Italian pronunciation&nbsp;<\/a>. I promise this will be the last blog post that feels like a classroom, I just wish that there were more resources for me right now to learn Hebrew, so I figured maybe somebody wants this for Italian.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.culturediscovery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-11-at-6.09.32-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"786\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.culturediscovery.com\/blog\/culture\/basic-guide-pronouncing-foods-italian\/attachment\/screen-shot-2015-06-11-at-6-09-32-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.culturediscovery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-11-at-6.09.32-PM.png\" data-orig-size=\"484,598\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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