how do you pronounce these words:
dolce,
maestoso,
assai,
vivace,
vivacissimamente,
sempre
Here's my attempt at phoenetic spellings. Hope they help...
dolce,
(DOLE-CHEY) [long 'A' sound]
maestoso,
(MY-STO-SO)
assai,
(A-SIGH)
vivace,
(VIH-VA-CHEY) [long A]
vivacissimamente,
never seen this before, probably like this:
(VIH-VA-CHIH-SIS-MA-MEN-TAY) [long A]
sempre
(SIM-PREY)
-j
Here is how I say them, according to Turkish pronounciation convention:
- dolçe
- maystozo
- assai
- vivaçe
- vivaçizimamente
- sempre
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IMHO!
In French, it sounds like this:
- doltché
- mahèstôsô
- assaille
- vivatché (a renforcé, un accent tonique, mais si ça existe en français!)
- vivatchissimamain(e)-té ou vivakissimamain(e)-té
(l'italien ne "chi" pas, dit-on)
- sèmhpré
in German, I'd schreiben:
- doltsche
- mahestoso
- assai
- vivatsche
- vivatschizimamente
- 'ssempre
In Spanish, I'd write:
- doltche
- maestozo
- asai
- vivatche
- vivatchisimamente
- sempre
and in English, I'd say
- dole-ché (é as in café (not Caffey), as in "ché gevarra")
- mah-estawzaw
- a(r)ss-I
- vee(short) vah-ché
- vivaçissimamenté
- semm-prey (stop before the "e" sound of "ey" (the y letter))
Is it needed in italian too ? ;-> (http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/nwcforum/maito:marsu@europe.com)
The English pronunciation would depend on whether you were trying to speak Italian or use the expressions as imported Italian words into English. The obvious example is 'Piano',
pronounced pee-ah-nno in Italian (short 'o'), but pee-ann-nowe as an English word, or Joanna in American.
So dolce is approximately doll-chai(r) in Italian, doll-chay in English. Then, in the English manner, my-stowe-zoe, ass-eye (short 'a'), vee-va(r)-chay, vee-var-chiss-si-ma-men-tay, semm-pray.
vivacissimamente means as lively as possible
Peter
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I use it often.
Frederique
Peter:
Just a little quibble with the Italian pronouciation of piano: in fact, that's pyah-no (2 syllables).
HTH.
Yves
Sabaoth