If you want to improve your Italian pronunciation quickly, you're in the right place.

You might think that you can't improve your pronunciation.

So it's either something that you're born with or you're not, but that's not true.

My English accent, in fact, used to be so strong when speaking Italian that my Italian friends loved imitating me.

Yes, I remember.

But now when Italians learn that I'm English, sometimes they ask why I don't have an accent. Some even say you sound like a native speaker.

What do you think that you improve your Italian pronunciation?

Well, in this lesson, I'll explain exactly what I did to learn the most important sounds, rapidly, or should I say, rapidly.

Hi everyone and welcome to learn Italian. Hello to all and benvenuti.

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

So how did you improve your Italian presentation and what should our students do to improve theirs?

Luckily there's no magic involved. You just need to focus on learning Italian

sounds in exactly the same way that you might study other things like grammar and vocabulary.

Then lots of practice and some more practice. So just like any other skill really. When you ignore it,

you might not be very good at it,

but when you work at it, you can improve.

Yeah, exactly.

So we'll focus on the sounds that don't exist in English,

because if you're an English speaker,

those are the ones that you probably struggle with the most.

Let's start with the G-N in words like Noki.

When you see the letters G and N together, it's like a N

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