How do you pronounce the letter G in Italian?

And why is the G in spaghetti different from the G in Formaggio, which means cheese?

Find out how to pronounce the letter G and read an Italian menuutti and welcome to 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 continue learning how to pronounce food names

on an Italian menu.

This time we're going to look at words with the letter G.

If you've already followed our lesson on how to pronounce the C sound, we've got some good

news for you.

You should be able to pick it up quite easily because the rules are more or less the

same. So if you didn't catch that lesson, you can listen to it now by clicking on the link in the

comments below, where you will also find a list of the new words from today's episode.

Let's get started, shall we? Yeah, let's do this. G. The letter G is usually pronounced as a hard g sound, like in origano.

Which you can probably guess means oregano.

And I think in American English it's actually pronounced something like origano.

So it's closer to the Italian pronunciation.

Yeah.

Gambary, which means prones. And again here we get the hard g-s-sound,

Gambari.

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