Correct pronunciation of Giuoco?

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

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Gee-ew-o-co Piano

Avatar of Ghostly14

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

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

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

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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.

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

Avatar of TheOldReb

Just call it the quiet game ... Wink

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Spelling it is another probelm entirely!