Correct pronunciation of Giuoco?

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dillydream

Can someone tell me how to pronounce "Giuoco" as in Giuoco Piano Opening?

falgocharm

Gee-ew-o-co Piano

Ghostly14

Not knowing how to say it I nicknamed it the Gucci Piano.

dillydream

@ Windownight: That sounds just awful!  But thanks anyway.

@Ghostly13:  I was going with Joko.  Hard to get my mouth around this one.

ilmago

Just say "jocco", and you will come nicely close as an English speaker.

 

Simply hear how "gioco" is pronounced here:

http://www.forvo.com/word/gioco_da_tavolo/

 

Or compare the written phonetics in

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gioco

(giuoco is an alternative form of the word gioco = game)

 

So you will not need to bother to try to pronounce the u in the word giuoco

(-ew- in http://www.forvo.com/word/giuoco/ ),

which will not make a big difference in rapid spoken Italian for you anyway.

dillydream

Thanks for that great link.  The pronunciation actually sounded to my ear like: gew-o-co.

TheOldReb

Just call it the quiet game ... Wink

DrSpudnik

Spelling it is another probelm entirely!