The Italian alphabet includes five vowels (a, e, i, o, and u), just like in English – if we don’t count “y”,which is technically a consonant but often acts like a vowel. The vowels are pron… 展开

Italian words can only have accents on vowels, not consonants. Accents can be either tonic or … 展开

The Italian alphabet includes 16 consonants (b, c, d, f, g, h, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, andz), but 21 are the total consonant sounds pronounced. Compared to vowels, where the air str… 展开

In addition to the above consonant classification, there are some special pronunciation rules that are very common to find and are important to keep in mind when you learn I… 展开