To pronounce combinations of vowels (dipthongs) in Italian, just add together the two distinct individual sounds.
The sounds don’t vary like they do in English.
Let’s try some common examples:
ai is pronounced like the english word eye (e.g. mai - never)
au is pronounced like the long sound ow in cow (e.g. autobus - bus)
ea is pronounced like [...]
Italian consonants are relatively easy to pronounce as they follow simple rules and there are no irregularities in spelling as there are in English.
The following consonants are pronounced as you would expect them to be:
b, d, f, l, m, n, p, s, q, t, v, x
However, these consonants are a little different:
c - is pronounced [...]
Italian vowels are easy to pronounce because, unlike in English, they always stay the same!
Let’s try:
a is pronounced like the a of apple (e.g. banana - bahnahnah not buhnaaahnuh)
e is pronounced like the e of egg (e.g. belle donne - belleh donneh)
i is a little more complicated! It’s midway between the i of it and [...]
