Great video. It really helped when you mentioned how the letter i was more a place holder to get you to the other vowel. Great explanation. Grazie mille!
I have asked you for help with this as well (over a year ago) and I have practiced it endlessly with Italian friends and by myself together with nouns; gli uccelli, gli studenti. I am still working on it but my Italian friends always understand me. Grazie mille caro Manu!
I so much appreciate the explanation on this sound. I started learning Italiano a while back using Duolingo. I'm bilingual, fluent in both English and Spanish, and not knowing how to pronounce this word is mainly what caused me to stop, believe it or not. Yes, it was very frustrating because I kept trying to pronounce it the way I thought it should have been pronounced, based on the two languages that I'm most familiar with. Again, thanks for clarifying it. I think I will resume my studies. I went to Italy a few years back but I didn't get to practice the little bit that I had learned.
To me, this is the hardest sound in Italian. I always thought/heard it was /li/ but when I had to study a basic Italian course at university I learnt about this different pronunciation and I found it very difficult, couldn't produce it at all! My mother tongue is Spanish and I always thought Italuan would be easy but no way it is even more difficult than Spanish.
Me pasa lo mismo que a ti. parece un sonido simple, pero es muy engañoso y difícil de replicar para los hablantes hispanos. suena un poco a L no siendo L y un poco a Y o LL, no siendo Ye. Aún no consigo ningún video en RUclips en donde lo expliquen bien. Seguiré intentando
Phonetically, the distinguishing key of this sound isn't the throat but the tongue. It's a palatal lateral approximant (ʎ) -- using the tongue at the place of y and in the manner of l (i.e. putting the back of the tongue against the roof of the mouth so that the air flows by the sides).
Grazie tante per chiariare questo punto. Communque, volevo sapere, come si pronuncia GLi quando e utilitzato per esempio nel: GLI auguro una pronta guarigione. Anche si pronuncia come YA come voi avete spiegato??
My last name is Maglione ("sweater", in Italian). I was born and raised in the U.S., but my grandfather didn't "Americanize" our last name when he came over, so it's pronounced in the Italian way. American's do not get it. I'm always "Mag-lee-O-nee" or "Mag-lee-own".
Hello Mano. I have the question. I'm now student at italy (milan) and when people talk I alway hear some L in their pronunciation of gli. so I'm a bit confused how to pronounce it because pronounce it just as yee doesn't seem generic to me.
Hello Manu, I am a 3rd generation Italian American. My maiden name is Travaglini. Are you able to tell me this: is the gli in my family name said the same as you describe the sound in this video - the "y" sound as in familia? Also, I am having trouble finding the Italian pronunciation of anise. Could you possibly help with that? Thanks so very much! Doreen Travaglini Engle
So, you never pronounce “Gil” by itself as a pronoun with a plural masculine noun. I just want to hear it used as a pronoun. I cannot hear it pronounced carefully when I hear it in speech. It sounds a lot like “li” to me. Can you please isolate it?
Thank you I was just in Italy and I asked my tour guide how to correctly say my kids last name. Their fathers family came from Sicily four generations ago. But they use the American pronunciation. The guide told me the gl makes the y sound and I had never heard that before. Their last name is Magliazzo. So interesting to hear an Italian say it correct because my ex husband didn't even know how to say it. So my kids got to tell their dad how to say their name correctly.
Thank you for sharing this story with us! Indeed, Italian surnames are pronounced differently depending on the spoken language. It's truly wonderful that your child has discovered the correct pronunciation of their surname! They learned something new.
after watching dozen of videos, I still can't replicate this sound. i'm a native spanish speaker, and i found no teacher: in italian, spanish o english that can explain this properly. the hardest part for me is that is a sound that is in the half of two sounds but no being any of them 😢 I'll continue practicing.
I think the clearest explanation for this sound would be Serbian sound љ . It's pronounced like ly but l is somewhat silent and y is dominant. The final result of the sound is something like a mixed l and y together. In Serbian this situation is called јотовање. It's the same for n and y what makes a sound ny which would be gn in Italian
Manu, mille grazie per la tua spiegazione. Dall'inizio che studio italiano, la mia pronuncia e' stata sbagliata. Dicevo sempre parole come "voglio" come se fosse [vol-yo], o [fam-il-ya]. Ancora una volta, grazie per la spiegazione la piu' chiara che abbia sentito. Ora devo fare la pratica di questo suono!
I learned it up north in Vicenza where 'gli' has a more pronounced glottal quality. It came to me easily but a lot of Americans just could not pick it up.
I think in Florence Italian, we should include a L-ish or G-ish sound in the beginning rather than a strong Y. The strong Y sounds like Naples dialect. If you want to say GLI in Satndard Italian, try to close you mouth and try so that your tongue wants to get out of you teeth but it can't cause your teeth are close to each other and there is pressure on your tongue from your upper palate. Idk if it made sense but I learned it and I tested my pronunciation with Central Italians :D
@@saeedmahjoori nope, Italian is just based on cultured ancient Florentine, it is not Florentine. The accent and the dialect of Florence are a different thing from standard Italian
@@gabrieletuccio23 What do u mean by cultured? Now they are uncultured? If you mean it has changed ever since, that's normal. Languages change over time. Same as probably the dialects of other provinces have evolved. That's why we have for example modern version, middle version, ancient version of a language. Well it has to have a certain contemporary dialect as a standard. U mean it doesn't have?
@@saeedmahjoori I mean it was the literary language, not the people's language. Italian is a language crafted by authors and it didn't exist before. Nowadays standard Italian is spoken by no one natively, because everyone has a dialect or an accent. It sounds similar to the Roman accent, but still very different from the actual dialect they speak in Rome
Would I be correct if I said you were asked how to pronounce the Italian gli sound and not once during the whole 5 minute 45 second video did you ever once actually say that word?
@@Kathayne636 Some of my family pronounce it like that. You’d think I’d know without a doubt but I don’t. The native speakers in my family were my great grandparents who are long gone.
Oh, geez. I guess I was still pronouncing it wrong. I was saying it like a "Lyi" sound. For me, this is the hardest sound in Italian as a English speaker. The definite article by itself was giving me the most anxiety to say
Stavo pensando che molto più semplicemente GLI seguito da consonante rimanga sempre GL (Glicerina, Negligente), ma poi mentre pensavo ad altre parole da mettere come è esemplio mi è venuta in mente "che essi taglino" a smentire tutto😂
"Gnocchi" -- Austrians could say it (dumplings) and I couldn't even hear it! Austrians also joke that a baby who cannot say "mama" can already say "stacciaatella" -- chocolate-chip Italian vanilla gelato, or ice cream with chocolate slivers.
I do Italian on Duolingo and for every speaking exercise that has 'Gli' I have to repeat what I said a million times before it picks it up lmao.
You made this so much more simple than anyone I’ve seen explain it.
🥹🫶🏻
Finally video that makes sense. Now I got that. Thanks !
Great video. It really helped when you mentioned how the letter i was more a place holder to get you to the other vowel. Great explanation. Grazie mille!
Learning on Duo and struggling with the GL in Taglia/Talglio/tagli etc. this video is brill! Thank you!
🥰
I've tried to do this sound like million times but always ended up sounds like a person who try to say the word right after electrocuted
You nailed it then.
Hahahaha :D you made my day! I agree that’s quite tricky to pronounce.
A bit like me trying to say "Thirsty" without having a tongue surgery right after XD
I have asked you for help with this as well (over a year ago) and I have practiced it endlessly with Italian friends and by myself together with nouns; gli uccelli, gli studenti. I am still working on it but my Italian friends always understand me. Grazie mille caro Manu!
The best explanation I've found, thank you
❤️
As a complete beginner student who doesn't know anyone who speaks Italian, this was really a life saver! Grazie mille!
I so much appreciate the explanation on this sound. I started learning Italiano a while back using Duolingo. I'm bilingual, fluent in both English and Spanish, and not knowing how to pronounce this word is mainly what caused me to stop, believe it or not. Yes, it was very frustrating because I kept trying to pronounce it the way I thought it should have been pronounced, based on the two languages that I'm most familiar with. Again, thanks for clarifying it. I think I will resume my studies. I went to Italy a few years back but I didn't get to practice the little bit that I had learned.
Thank goodness for this video
🎉 Grazie Mille 🎊
Best Explanation
Eveeerrrr 🏆🥇🤴🏻
Awesome explaination. Thank you!
Thank you!!! That was very helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
well-explained!! grazie!!
💪
Thank you for this very clear explanation! 👏
This explanation was awesome. Just started learning Italian and I was very confuse with this sound
❤️
I understood how to say it as soon as you said the words "suffocating yourself" LOL
😂
love this guy!
Thanks so much! I came here from my friend's self-created language. It's still building though
I got it better from practicing the way you said it and then reading words with the GL sound included. I hope that this helps anyone.
To me, this is the hardest sound in Italian. I always thought/heard it was /li/ but when I had to study a basic Italian course at university I learnt about this different pronunciation and I found it very difficult, couldn't produce it at all! My mother tongue is Spanish and I always thought Italuan would be easy but no way it is even more difficult than Spanish.
Me pasa lo mismo que a ti. parece un sonido simple, pero es muy engañoso y difícil de replicar para los hablantes hispanos. suena un poco a L no siendo L y un poco a Y o LL, no siendo Ye. Aún no consigo ningún video en RUclips en donde lo expliquen bien. Seguiré intentando
Phonetically, the distinguishing key of this sound isn't the throat but the tongue. It's a palatal lateral approximant (ʎ) -- using the tongue at the place of y and in the manner of l (i.e. putting the back of the tongue against the roof of the mouth so that the air flows by the sides).
This, explains, a, lot
It is weird because from what I hear people say it, it always sounds like they have an "L" attached in the end.
molto grazie
Grazie tante per chiariare questo punto. Communque, volevo sapere, come si pronuncia GLi quando e utilitzato per esempio nel: GLI auguro una pronta guarigione. Anche si pronuncia come YA come voi avete spiegato??
My last name is Maglione ("sweater", in Italian). I was born and raised in the U.S., but my grandfather didn't "Americanize" our last name when he came over, so it's pronounced in the Italian way. American's do not get it. I'm always "Mag-lee-O-nee" or "Mag-lee-own".
Thank you
thank YOU for your support, grazie! 🤩
Hello Mano. I have the question. I'm now student at italy (milan) and when people talk I alway hear some L in their pronunciation of gli. so I'm a bit confused how to pronounce it because pronounce it just as yee doesn't seem generic to me.
Hello Manu,
I am a 3rd generation Italian American. My maiden name is Travaglini. Are you able to tell me this: is the gli in my family name said the same as you describe the sound in this video - the "y" sound as in familia?
Also, I am having trouble finding the Italian pronunciation of anise. Could you possibly help with that?
Thanks so very much!
Doreen Travaglini Engle
grazie, signore!
So, you never pronounce “Gil” by itself as a pronoun with a plural masculine noun. I just want to hear it used as a pronoun. I cannot hear it pronounced carefully when I hear it in speech. It sounds a lot like “li” to me. Can you please isolate it?
The video I needed to watch
Ciao Manu. Grazie mille.
Thank you I was just in Italy and I asked my tour guide how to correctly say my kids last name. Their fathers family came from Sicily four generations ago. But they use the American pronunciation. The guide told me the gl makes the y sound and I had never heard that before. Their last name is Magliazzo. So interesting to hear an Italian say it correct because my ex husband didn't even know how to say it. So my kids got to tell their dad how to say their name correctly.
Thank you for sharing this story with us! Indeed, Italian surnames are pronounced differently depending on the spoken language. It's truly wonderful that your child has discovered the correct pronunciation of their surname! They learned something new.
after watching dozen of videos, I still can't replicate this sound. i'm a native spanish speaker, and i found no teacher: in italian, spanish o english that can explain this properly. the hardest part for me is that is a sound that is in the half of two sounds but no being any of them 😢 I'll continue practicing.
lo explicastes muy bien bro
I think the clearest explanation for this sound would be Serbian sound љ . It's pronounced like ly but l is somewhat silent and y is dominant. The final result of the sound is something like a mixed l and y together. In Serbian this situation is called јотовање. It's the same for n and y what makes a sound ny which would be gn in Italian
Ho cercato per questo solo perché ero curioso di sapere come facessero gli anglofoni a imparare questo suono, è stato un video interessante
Grazie mille! Seguo il vostro canale e siete una fonte di ispirazione per il mio! Sei bravissimo :)
Grazie Mille
Manu, mille grazie per la tua spiegazione. Dall'inizio che studio italiano, la mia pronuncia e' stata sbagliata. Dicevo sempre parole come "voglio" come se fosse [vol-yo], o [fam-il-ya]. Ancora una volta, grazie per la spiegazione la piu' chiara che abbia sentito. Ora devo fare la pratica di questo suono!
Grazie a te per il tuo supporto! Continua a seguirci, se ti va! 😘
Grazie mille
I went to DOP the "official dictionary" and I got so confused because the examples all sounded totally different for GLI!!!
I learned it up north in Vicenza where 'gli' has a more pronounced glottal quality. It came to me easily but a lot of Americans just could not pick it up.
So this sounds is easier than I thought?!
I think in Florence Italian, we should include a L-ish or G-ish sound in the beginning rather than a strong Y. The strong Y sounds like Naples dialect.
If you want to say GLI in Satndard Italian, try to close you mouth and try so that your tongue wants to get out of you teeth but it can't cause your teeth are close to each other and there is pressure on your tongue from your upper palate. Idk if it made sense but I learned it and I tested my pronunciation with Central Italians :D
If we include regional dialects we are in trouble!😁 In Italy, depending on the Region, there are so many different way to pronounce whatever!! 😂
@@italymadeeasy Well yeah but it's best to teach the Italiano di Firenze.
@@saeedmahjoori nope, Italian is just based on cultured ancient Florentine, it is not Florentine. The accent and the dialect of Florence are a different thing from standard Italian
@@gabrieletuccio23 What do u mean by cultured? Now they are uncultured?
If you mean it has changed ever since, that's normal. Languages change over time.
Same as probably the dialects of other provinces have evolved.
That's why we have for example modern version, middle version, ancient version of a language.
Well it has to have a certain contemporary dialect as a standard. U mean it doesn't have?
@@saeedmahjoori I mean it was the literary language, not the people's language. Italian is a language crafted by authors and it didn't exist before. Nowadays standard Italian is spoken by no one natively, because everyone has a dialect or an accent. It sounds similar to the Roman accent, but still very different from the actual dialect they speak in Rome
Hi. Do you know what Franotto means? I’m not sure I’m spelling it right, but it sounds just like I spelled it.
Would I be correct if I said you were asked how to pronounce the Italian gli sound and not once during the whole 5 minute 45 second video did you ever once actually say that word?
It's similar to lh in português
So my family name Cagliero is pronounced Ca-yero? Please don’t laugh, I’m American.🤣
Ca-λỉero
I would say more like Cal-yero
@@Kathayne636 Some of my family pronounce it like that. You’d think I’d know without a doubt but I don’t. The native speakers in my family were my great grandparents who are long gone.
Oh, geez. I guess I was still pronouncing it wrong. I was saying it like a "Lyi" sound. For me, this is the hardest sound in Italian as a English speaker. The definite article by itself was giving me the most anxiety to say
So basically Gli sounds like Yi ? Reading the comments and now I’m even more confused . So a word like taglio would sound like ta yi o
Tal-yo
How would Moglie be pronounced? Do we pronouncethe L?@@Kathayne636
Is "Gli" pronounced the same as "Y" in "Yellow"
Nope
Stavo pensando che molto più semplicemente GLI seguito da consonante rimanga sempre GL (Glicerina, Negligente), ma poi mentre pensavo ad altre parole da mettere come è esemplio mi è venuta in mente "che essi taglino" a smentire tutto😂
Esattamente! 😉
New subscriber bambino xd
Gl drives me crazy ( i'm a spanish speaker, and english as a second).
Sé que ha pasado tiempo desde que comentaste, pero ¿Has logrado perfeccionar esa "GLI" ?
La estoy practicando, pero pareciera que digo "LI" .
Creo que la mejore.Despues de escuchar mil veces.Creo que es como doble l, pero alargada.
I am now confused wether Famiglia is pronounced ‘Familia’ or ‘fameeya’
This is killing me.. 😂😂
😂😁
Poi ci sono eccezioni nel suono come in
Glicerina
Negligente
Esatto!
I read that you only pronounce the gli sound if there's a vowel after the i. If that's the case, how do you pronounce the last name "Bonfigli"?
so is there an L sound in this sound or not?!
Yes, there si an "L sound" but, remember, closer to G than L 😉
I really dont have the patience to wait for more than a min jesus hahhaha for a less than a second word
♡
1: 54. oh yeah nice ...am
"Gnocchi" -- Austrians could say it (dumplings) and I couldn't even hear it! Austrians also joke that a baby who cannot say "mama" can already say "stacciaatella" -- chocolate-chip Italian vanilla gelato, or ice cream with chocolate slivers.
Edit: stracciatella
😂
Guagliù. You're welcome.
😄
Pensa ad Anna Magnani!
L isn't pronounced?
When pronouncing "GLI" the sound of "L" becomes part of a new sound together with G and I 😊
@@italymadeeasy ohhh Grazie per la tua risposta! :)
Spanish used to have this sound for "ll"
Exactly!!! 😘
@@Mia-de8xf some accents still maintain the sound. North East of Argentina, South of Spain come to mind.
'Foliage' has the same sound in English.
GL as in Glock
Sì
Didn't pronounce it in the first minute (in isolation) so I just stopped watching.
La tua pronuncia di gli è completamente sbagliata, marcata in senso regionale.
Glissando non è scientifico :)
Somehow confusing, since in some videos on RUclips on the subject of the "GLI" sound in Italian it seems the "L" in gli is pronounced.