Here on Italy Unedited Podcast, our travel ethos includes the belief that anyone can learn the basics. So, this week, we are bringing you some very useful, relatively simple basic Italian words and phrases to help your time in Italy go a little more smoothly, and to support you in giving off a nicer impression—una bella figura—as a tourist.

We open with how to say bruschetta correctly, and why you should gently correct everyone in your life on the pronunciation! From there, we move on to how to pronounce some tricky Italian sounds and letter combinations (think gnocchi, pistacchio), and get into the important difference between /sch/ and /sc/ letter combinations, including why things may get lost in translation if Italian sounds get mixed up or pronounced incorrectly!

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