6: How to pronounce gn - like in lasagne

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🗓️ 30 January 2017

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Problems with Italian pronunciation? Learn how to say the "gn" sound in Italian, so you can correctly pronounce words like "lasagne" and "Spagna" (Spain).

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Today's Italian words
Mangio = I eat
and = e
Mangio lasagne e gnocchi = I eat lasagne and gnocchi
Voglio = I want
Voglio lasagne e gnocchi = I want lasagne and gnocchi
Ogni = every
Spagna = Spain
Bagno = bathroom
in = in
Devo andare = I need to go
Devo andare in bagno = I need to go to the bathroom/toilet (literally: I need to go in bathroom)

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0:00.0	How do Italians really pronounce words like lasagna and nochi?
0:06.0	Let's find out in the sixth episode of Five Minute Italian.
0:10.0	Hello, and Benvenuti at Five Minute Italian.
0:25.3	Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minute Italian.
0:28.9	I'm Katie.
0:30.3	And I'm Matteo.
0:31.4	Ciao to all.
0:32.7	Last week, we learned about the smiley L, the yee sound in words like familia, which means family.
0:42.7	If you missed it, you can go back and listen to episode 5 of 5 minute Italian.
0:49.1	Today we're going to learn about another smiley sound, which we like to call the smiley N.
0:55.7	And this is a really important one because it's in some essential words like lasagna and
1:01.9	nochi.
1:03.3	We're always talking about food on this program.
1:06.0	I mean, we're learning Italian. Food is the most important thing.
1:09.9	Yeah, good point actually.
1:11.6	Yeah. Maybe we should only talk about food.
1:13.6	Maybe we should.
1:14.6	Yeah.
1:15.6	Yeah.
1:16.6	So, let's think about the word lasagna.
1:21.6	Can you hear the Nya sound in lasagna? Let's get the native Italian to pronounce it. Lasagna.
1:31.3	That is our smiley N, the N. It's similar to an in English, but instead of bringing the tip of the tongue up behind the teeth, like we do in the English
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