Which Italian food name do most people pronounce wrong?

Find out which one it is and how to pronounce it right as we learn how to pronounce the letteruti a five minute Italian.

Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minute Italian.

I'm Katie.

And I'm Matteo.

Ciao.

And in today's lesson, we're going to learn how to pronounce the letter C in Italian. We'll start by looking at some words that you already know on an Italian menu and learn some new ones so that next time you go to an Italian restaurant or eat out in Italy you can order food like a pro. The letter C in Italian is usually pronounced as a hard k-k sound.

Like in Carbonara.

That's that delicious pasta from Rome with eggs and pancetta.

Nice.

And in carne.

Which means meat.

And like carbonara, it's spelled with C-A at the beginning.

So it's pronounced as a hard k. Oh, that reminds me. You can find the words from today's episode with the spelling in the comments box below. So here's the thing that can be a bit tricky for

native English speakers. If you see a C-H spelling in Italian, it's actually pronounced as a hard k-sound, not as a soft

ch-sound as it would be in English, for example in the word cheese or chair.

Like in yoke-i.

Yeah, so the last syllable in yokeoki is spelled C-H-I.

So the C-plus-H-H is pronounced as a hard k-sound, Noki.

And in zucchini.

This time it's the middle syllable.

So the key in zucchini is spelled C-plus plus H. So again, we get this hard

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