The Italian Language

Learn about the Italian language, grammar, vocabulary and culture

Introduction

This is only a short guide to the Italian alphabet and to the correct pronunciation of the various italian sounds. It is divided into 5 sections. In the first I examine the alphabet itself and the stress marks that Italian adopts, in the second I look at double consonants, I then talk in the third section of letters that can be pronounced in two different ways, mute letters and so on. A fourth section speaks of stress in the Italian language, while the last section gives word lists in several European languages in which each letter of the Italian alphabet is confronted with a word in other languages where the same sound is present, giving this way a rough pronunciation guide.