pronunciation

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pronunciation

23 years ago

how do you pronounce these words:

dolce,
maestoso,
assai,
vivace,
vivacissimamente,
sempre

Re: pronunciation

Reply #1 – 23 years ago

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

Re: pronunciation

Reply #2 – 23 years ago

Here is how I say them, according to Turkish pronounciation convention:

dolçe
maystozo
assai
vivaçe
vivaçizimamente
sempre

FWIW,
Ertugrul

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Re: pronunciation

Reply #3 – 23 years ago

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 ? ;->

Re: pronunciation

Reply #4 – 23 years ago

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

Re: pronunciation

Reply #5 – 23 years ago

If you want any word or small sentence pronunciation
look at this site http://www.lhsl.com/realspeak/demo/
and try it. There are 19 languages supported.
This is the best TTS (text to speak) I know and
I use it often.

Frederique

Re: pronunciation

Reply #6 – 23 years ago

Peter:

Just a little quibble with the Italian pronouciation of piano: in fact, that's pyah-no (2 syllables).

HTH.

Yves

Re: pronunciation

Reply #7 – 22 years ago

Sabaoth