Remember learning the months in Italian? When you got to August, Augusto, you might have thought,

oh, that's easy. It's basically the same as English and then moved on to the others. That's what I

remember doing. But then a few years later, I realized that actually I'd been pronouncing it wrong

all this time.

That's because there are a couple of important details that learners nearly always get wrong.

Luckily, once you know about them, they're easy to correct.

In fact, with these tips and tricks, you'll be saying, Augusto, like an Italian, before the end of this episode.

Hi everyone and welcome to learn Italian with Joy of Languages.

Today we're talking about how to pronounce Augusto in Italian, which is deceptively tricky.

True.

A lot of learners say this wrong, even at an advanced level.

I think it's because it's very similar to English, but it's

not the same. Yeah, I think we try to say it like we would in English, which then later

leads us to actually get the details wrong. And it's something we don't really pay attention

to. As I mentioned, I'd actually been speaking Italian for years before I

suddenly realized that I'd been getting it wrong. And then it took me a little while to get out of

bad habits and start saying it right. But you can learn from my mistakes and get things right

a lot sooner. So how do Italians pronounce August? Augusto.

Augusto.

Augusto.

In Italian, when it comes to pronunciation, the trick is to always look at the spelling,

because we nearly always say words exactly as we see them.

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