When To Pronounce H Italian English pronunciation problems
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm are you Italian
are you learning English great this
video is for you today we’re going to
talk about one pronunciation problem
that I’ve noticed a lot of my Italian
students having it is the lovely letter
H H I’ve noticed that my Italian
students sometimes forget to add H where
they should have H and they add H where
we don’t need H let’s talk about the
first one first because this is the
simplest when there is an H you need to
pronounce it let’s talk about a sentence
that could be a challenge for you I want
you to practice this sentence with me
and make sure that you’re imitating each
sound that my voice is making especially
the H’s are you ready this is the
sentence hi Hanna how’s it going have
you hung out with Harry lately there are
a lot of H’s that you need to pronounce
in the sentence and one good way to know
if you’re pronouncing them correctly is
to use a piece of paper so I want you to
take a piece of paper and put it in
front of your mouth this is a good way
to see if you’re pronouncing mouth put
anything with air it’s a great way to
test to see if you’re pronouncing it
correctly and HS are the same now the
air that comes out of your mouth
for the H is pretty light so it’s not
gonna move the paper like a piece out
put that moves the paper a lot but when
you say hi Hanna how’s it going have you
hung out with Harry lately of course I’m
emphasizing the H sound here but when
you’re practicing pronunciation that’s
difficult for you I think it’s good to
emphasize it at the beginning and when
it becomes more natural
you’ll be able to tone it down and save
eh a little bit less without forgetting
it the next part is adding h’s where
there is no H I’ve noticed that a lot of
my Italian students like to add in H
when there’s a word that begins with a
vowel so for example let’s practice this
sample sentence talking about poor Harry
from the previous sentence if you asked
hi Hanna how’s it going have you hung
out with Harry lately you might say no
he isn’t very interesting but he won’t
go away
poor Harry poor you maybe no he isn’t
isn’t oftentimes my Italian students add
an H no he isn’t he isn’t very
interesting adding an H of course I’m
not doing it exactly like you would but
adding an H where there is a vowel sound
so I want to make sure that you
pronounce each sound without an H and a
great way to do that is just to start
slowly so we’re gonna pronounce that
sentence slowly I want you to repeat
with me and then we’re gonna say it
faster are you ready no he isn’t very
interesting but he won’t go away make
sure that you’re focusing on isn’t
interesting and away there is no H sound
let’s do it one more time slowly and
then let’s speed it up no he isn’t very
interesting but he won’t go away quickly
now no he isn’t very interesting but he
won’t go away no he isn’t very
interesting but he won’t go away I hope
that this quick lesson about the H sound
adding it or not adding it has been
helpful to you even if you’re not an
Italian speaker I hope that this
pronunciation lesson was useful for you
and now I have a question for you in the
comments below this video let me know
which other sounds or which other
words are difficult for you to pronounce
maybe in the future I’ll make a video
about them for you
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