{"id":605,"date":"2020-02-18T02:57:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T02:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/?page_id=605"},"modified":"2020-05-14T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T14:46:00","slug":"speaking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/speaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote style=\"border: 15px groove;background-color: #ededed;border-color: #000000;width: 100%\">\n<blockquote style=\"border: 5px dotted;background-color: #ededed;border-color: #000000;margin: 0px;padding: 15px 35px 35px 25px\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Learning any language can be overwhelming (especially for a beginner), but becoming familiar with the sounds of the language can lessen this significantly. <strong>Use the resources below to become familiar with the Italian alphabet (including pronunciation, stress, and accents) and see what Italian words you&#8217;ve been pronouncing wrong!<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"border-top: 5px dotted #000000;padding-top: 20px;padding-bottom: 0px;border-left: #ffffff;font-family: Calibri;font-size: 20px\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #000000\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.italianlanguageguide.com\/pronunciation\/\">The Italian Language Guide<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span>has lessons on the alphabet as well as the pronunciation of &#8220;easy&#8221; and &#8220;difficult&#8221; consonants.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\" href=\"https:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/~jrb\/reference\/italian.html\">The Italian Pronunciation Primer for Singers<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;may not be geared specifically towards those learning to understand Italian, but it is an easy to comprehend guide aimed towards &#8220;those with little or no knowledge of Italian pronunciation avoid some of the errors most commonly made by American English speakers.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forvo.com\/languages\/it\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #000000\"><strong>Forvo<\/strong><\/span><\/a>&nbsp;is the largest pronunciation dictionary in the world. Look up any word to hear it pronounced by a native speaker.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning any language can be overwhelming (especially for a beginner), but becoming familiar with the sounds of the language can lessen this significantly. Use the resources below to become familiar with the Italian alphabet (including pronunciation, stress, and accents) and see what Italian words you&#8217;ve been pronouncing wrong! The Italian Language Guide&nbsp;has lessons on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7869,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3414,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/605\/revisions\/3414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/italiamo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}