saying before there is a modified version of the international phonetic alphabet showing you exactly how these languages work and take a language like italian where you actually think that oh well this is a fanatically spelled language it should be perfectly clear well there's so much stuff that's not let's take a look this page has some of that phonetic transcription the very first word here is e which means and and the word that follows is kusi which means thus or like that but we see in the transcription there is a doubling of the k sound it's not echo but although in fact there are some dialects of italian where this doesn't happen but in standard italian it does and it's known as radopiamento fonocintatico and it happens again in the next little word which is ah meaning at or towards or for so the two words a piccoli together are pronounced as if there were two p's there and this phenomenon occurs normally if there was a long vowel in latin or if there was a consonant in latin that was eliminated the length of the syllable however i'm always talking about the most important part about latin is the length of the vowels and the length of the syllables here we see one of those effects actually retained in the phonology of italian it's like this wonderful little secret that you want to know about how italian ought to be pronounced like further down we see akarte it's not akarte another that we can see is that in the word don the o is a different kind of o from the one that's in the word pultrona and this is the vital distinction between opened and closed vowels in italian italian orthography rarely makes this distinction clear and another is that certain letters or letter combinations in italian are always long or are always geminated such as in the word for we will teach we see that the gn sound it's nya but it's always geminated when it falls between vowels so it's not in seneremo but these phonetic distinctions are not superficial details but are truly essential to the language its grammar and this book this series of books which you can find on ion academy is a phenomenal way to learn them because then you can apply that knowledge to any italian you experience whether it's through an app like busu whether it's an actual conversation with italians and this goes also obviously for the french and english books in addition to the three nature method books for english french and italian that are on ion academy ion academy has also found similar books for spanish and german and they're working on it for other languages too so stay subscribed to ion academy because you're going to see a lot of amazing things coming out of that channel in the coming months and i'd also like to recommend an outstanding channel for learning french and that's called french for real le francais pour de frey and on this channel leonel does some extraordinary work these are wonderful videos for both beginner and intermediate level in order to help improve your listening ability for italian i recommend podcast italiano elisa not alyssa as well as sonia candy wonderful channels and they're part of the group that you see here also yulia has a wonderful channel that you should check out all those links
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