Excerpt from Travellers' Colloquial Italian: A Handbook for English-Speaking Travellers and Students, Idiomatic Italian Phrases, With the Exact Pronunciation, Represented on a New System Based Upon a Scientific Analysis of Italian Sounds, With Other General Information Useful to Travellers in Italy This handbook is a companion volume to the author's Colloquial French and Colloquial German. It has two aims - one to be a treatise for students upon Italian pronunciation as compared with English, based upon scientific phonetics, with numerous examples; and the other, to be at the same time a thoroughly useful phrasebook for travellers, with the pronunciation as accurately represented as is possible in any printed system. The traveller abroad finds his first need always to be the most ordinary and idiomatic phrases. He who knows nothing of the language is naturally entirely at sea, while even those who have studied the language in the classical method, too often find themselves in hardly less difficulties, for though they may write and read it, they often cannot pronounce or understand it. It is a guide to the exact sounds that is most needed. Until a more rational way of teaching modern languages orally is introduced into our schools, a system of careful indication of the sounds by means of signs will be the next best preparation for a person travelling abroad. The recent researches of Alexander J. Ellis, Melville Bell, Paul Passy, Henry Sweet, and others, have led to a close and accurate knowledge of the various spoken sounds in a language, and it is the application of these researches, with other original remarks in a popular and useful form, which it is the purpose of this series of handbooks to serve. The chief point of distinction in the scheme of phonetics here adopted, arises from the adaptation of strict phonetics to popular usage. Instead of taking a set of strange signs to indicate the various sounds - such as turned letters, new signs and arbitrary significations of vowels - the intuitive perception of the English reader for known letters or combinations, has been kept in view throughout, while at the same time these are carefully and consistently used. An instance will make this clear. It is the genius of the English language to pronounce a in "has," with a high sharp sound peculiar to English alone; and even with an accent mark (a), or definite rules stated to the contrary, it would often be so pronounced. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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