@[email protected] to No Stupid Questions • 11 months agoDo Italian kids pronounce spaghetti like bisgetti or buhsgetti the way Americans do?message-square48fedilinkarrow-up185arrow-down125
arrow-up160arrow-down1message-squareDo Italian kids pronounce spaghetti like bisgetti or buhsgetti the way Americans do?@[email protected] to No Stupid Questions • 11 months agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-squarezoutlinkfedilink6•edit-211 months agoIt’s the same word on paper, but pronounced different. Italians tend to speak the vowels longer, with a slightly different sound (the “a” in American sounds like an “uh”, in Italian like a long “ah”). They also speak out both t’s separately.
minus-square@Windex007link1•11 months agoSo how do Italian kids tend to misprounce the word as they’re developing speech?
It’s the same word on paper, but pronounced different. Italians tend to speak the vowels longer, with a slightly different sound (the “a” in American sounds like an “uh”, in Italian like a long “ah”). They also speak out both t’s separately.
So how do Italian kids tend to misprounce the word as they’re developing speech?
No idea really.