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> Another important thing in pronouncing Italian is that the words have to flow together. It is like you should ignore that there are spaces between words.

I believe this is true for all languages. It’s certainly true for English — there is no pause between words in natural native speech.




When I listen to German the words seem more distinct from one another than Spanish or Italian. I wonder if it’s a reflection of how many words in the language end in consonants vs vowels.


Perception is a funny thing. It’s entirely possible that the words seem distinct to you for whatever reason, but that no difference would be apparent on an actual spectrogram.


I heard several times this comes from Latin, but I could be wrong.




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