How to pronounce Civitavecchia??

[bazzaw]

What emphasis on which syllables?? :)

 

Thanks

 

Barry

[pete_coach]

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=civitavecchia

 

chivitta-vekia

[bobalink]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?ggcivi01.wav=Civitavecchia

[T. Advisor King]

I think the primary emphasis is on the first syllable ("Chiv") with secondary emphasis on "vek". That's the way the locals seemed to say it.

[CathyCruises]

I think the primary emphasis is on the first syllable ("Chiv") with secondary emphasis on "vek". That's the way the locals seemed to say it.

 

Yup, what he said.

[bazzaw]

Thank you ALL

 

Barry

[dolittle]

Great thread bazzaw I have heard it said many ways. I know I have been murdering it for years and my wife is even worse.

[bazzaw]

Those websites with the aural pronunciations are brilliant -- type in WOOLOOMOOLOO :) Harbour side suburb of Sydney :)

 

Barry

[Imagineer]

...a good friend of mine is from Italy, and also when listening to the natives when we were there in November, they say it this way: chee-veeta-VEK-eeya

 

cheers,

 

the Imagineer

[rlse9]

I always found it easier to just refer to it as chee-vee...

[bazzaw]

The most important discovery (for me) is that it is CHi - not Si , which is how I have been pronouncing it :o

 

Barry

[Capricruiser]

...a good friend of mine is from Italy, and also when listening to the natives when we were there in November, they say it this way: chee-veeta-VEK-eeya

 

cheers,

 

the Imagineer

This is the correct pronunciation.

[T. Advisor King]

Yes, I suppose it is more of a "Cheev" than a "Chiv", although that is a much more natural sound in Italian than in English. I still think the "Cheev" is given more emphasis than the "veeta" or the "eeya", but I won't knock myself out trying to figure whether it is more or less than the "vek".

[Podie]

In most cases, Ci in Italian is pronounced Chee and Ch is pronounced like a K.