pronunciation

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pronunciation

2002-05-14 05:36 pm

how do you pronounce these words:

dolce,
maestoso,
assai,
vivace,
vivacissimamente,
sempre

Re: pronunciation

Reply #1 – 2002-05-14 09:00 pm

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 – 2002-05-15 01:39 am

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 – 2002-05-15 01:01 pm

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 – 2002-05-15 03:10 pm

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 – 2002-05-28 06:24 am

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 – 2002-05-29 09:53 am

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 – 2003-07-31 12:41 pm

Sabaoth