124: From ‘Gnocchi’ to ‘Bruschetta’: Learn to Pronounce an Italian Menu

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🗓️ 30 January 2024

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Gnocchi, bruschetta, tagliatelle… Italian dishes are easier to eat than pronounce! Impress your friends by learning to pronounce these Italian menu favourites.

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Today's Italian words:
Bruschetta = A starter of toasted bread with toppings (remember the hard CH sound!)
Tagliatelle = A type of fresh egg pasta in thick strips (contains the GLI sound)
Gnocchi = Italian potato dumplings (starts with the GN sound)
Spaghetti = A very famous type of long pasta (with a hard GH and double TT)
Panna cotta = A dessert which means “cooked cream” (contains a double NN and TT)
Arancini = Sicilian rice balls (the R sounds a lot like the t in the American “matter”)

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0:00.0	You know that feeling when you're at an Italian restaurant, the server is looking at you and you're not quite sure how to pronounce the dish you want.
0:07.0	Instead of panicking and pointing, you want to make a bella figura, a good impression and order like the locals do.
0:15.0	So in this lesson, you'll learn a few simple rules to pronounce Italian words like gnocchi, brusketa, tallyatelle,
0:24.3	and any other Italian dish you want with confidence.
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1:30.3	there. We considered deleting them, but then we thought, what's wrong with showing the awkward
1:36.6	beginning stages? It's a little bit like learning Italian, really. So we don't need to be perfect,
1:42.5	and we also don't expect our students to be perfect either.
1:45.7	Yes, the most important thing is to get started and keep at it. Then you'll make lots of progress
1:52.2	along the way. And speaking of feeling a little bit awkward, let's move on to today's topic.
1:58.6	So that feeling you get when you're about to order from a menu,
2:01.8	but you're not quite sure how to pronounce the dish. In this episode, we'll teach you how to
2:06.7	pronounce dishes like brusquetta and tagatelli so that you can order from an Italian menu with
2:13.7	confidence. Katie, you just said brusketta with a k.
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