Thanks to Paulie for this list!
adios: ah-dee-os
andiamo: an-dee-ah-mo
angioletto: an-joe-let-o
arancia: ah-ran-chah
bacio: bah-choh
bambino: bam-bee-no
bambinone: bam-bee-no-në (as in never)
bella: bell-ah
buon viaggio: boo-on vee-a-joe
camo: cam-oh
caramella: car-ah-mel-a
caramellina: car-ah-melina
ciao: chow (pronounced as in owl)
ciao ciao: same as above
citta rosa: chee-táh ro-sah (with accent on the “táh” as in taco)
corriere: core-yeh-reh
cucciolo: ku-chee-oh-lo
denaro: den-are-oh
dolce: doll-chë (as in chester)
famiglia: fa-mee-lee-a
foresta: for-ës-ta ( ës as in the letter S)
gioco: gee-oh-co
inferno: in-fher-no (fher as in fertile)
l’amore: la-more-ëh / amore: ah-more-ëh
latte: lah-tëh
luna: loo-na
mamma mia: mah-mah mee-a
nuvola: noo-voh-la (noo as in noon)
paradiso: pah-rah-dee-so
pirata: pee-rah-ta
portatelefono: por-tah-tëlé-foh-no
scuola: sku-oh-lah
Simone Legno: see-mo-neh leh-gnio
spiaggia: spee-ah-jah
stellina: stel-ee-na (as in stellar)
trasporto: tras-pór-toh (por as in pork)
trenino: trë-nee-no
tutti: too-tee
vacanze: vah-can-tse
zucca: zoo-cah
haha! this is brilliant! =D
Amazing I knew some of the words even though I don’t speak italian but most of these words sound the same in spanish but spelled differently.
I’ve been saying dolce and pirata all wrong!
This is such a clever idea!
…Should ciao and ciao ciao be switched, though? Switched as in the order they’re in?
*Shouldn’t, not should
Rebekah – yes, they should. I’ll fix that – didn’t notice it when I alphabetized the list.
Is it really bell-ah
and not bay-yah
like it would be in spanish? the “ll” makes a “yuh” sound
it is bell-ah, the “ll” sounds like a single L in italian, unlike spanish. and it wouldnt be “bay-yah” if it was the case anyway, but “beh-ya” if it was based in a spanish pronunciation.
Grazie mille!
…In Spanish, the “e”s are pronounced like “a”s.
ah-ëh-ee-oh-oo
thats the spanish pronunciation. spanish is my first language, being born and raised in panama.
yup italian is not all that hard to pronounce (at least for native english speakers…). all the vowels are pronounced, and there are very few silent sounds or awkward rules.
I went to italy last september and never spoke a word of italian before that. used a self-taught CD on and off for about a month before the trip and now I can pronounce anything toki that i see coming out!
The only Italian pronunciation rule that I always seem to forget is that “ci” = “chee”. And because of that, I’ve been pronouncing “citta rosa” as “sitta rosa” in my head all this time
Haha, I never knew citta was “chee-ta!”
I’m glad it’s Citta (chee-tah) because that’s what I’ve been saying but all these sales clerks have been trying to correct me. All of them that I have come across say ‘Seeta’.
my italian teacher pronounces all the “cio”s and “gio” like cho’s and jo’s ?_?
without the ee’s in the middle
This was a really cute idea. I knew how to say most of the names because I speak Spanish, but I got tricked a couple of times by the Italian pronounciation. =P
I think maybe there should also be a list of all the Tokidoki characters!! Do they ALL have names? There’s Bastardino & Polpettina, Adios & Ciao Ciao, Sandy, Mozzarella, Gatto? … but do the rest of the cuties also have names?
Does the little smiling tiger in Foresta have a name? He’s soooooo cute!! I love him!!
how do you pronounce Corriere?
How do your pronounce tokidoki haha
This is an EXCELLENT IDEA, but there are some mistakes… sorry
.As Giang ( Aug 2, 2007) stated, “gio” is like “joe”, gia is “jah” and never “gee-oh” or “gee-ah” regardless of someone’s italian accent. (Same of course goes for “cio” and “cia”) The “i” is this case is simply there to denote a “ch” sound as in “choh” and “chah”. (Italian is my first language). BTW for NiseBaby: Corriere is pron. core-yeh-reh. THANKS AGAIN for the list!
Scilla – Thank you – I attempted to edit the list accordingly (hopefully I got it right – I am not the author of this list & can’t speak Italian at all).
Good Idea! my first language is Spanish, and I know the meaning of any item of tokidoki, because Italian seems the lenguage Spanish but the pronuntiation is so different.
seeing the list, I can pronunciate as it is writen?? Is that OK???
or is English??
for example, a–>pronuntiate ‘ei’ in English.
Thank you for the list.
cereza – This list was created for English speakers, so think English instead of Spanish pronunciations when using it.
How would you pronounce the names of new bags like Bacio?
gem – Good question, hopefully an Italian speaker will be able to answer for us.
gem – it’s pronounced bah – choh. hope this helped
thanks for the list but how do you pronouce amazing in spanish
check this out
this is mine
you forgot about pronouncing tokidoki!
people pronounce it TOE-KEY DOE-KEY
but its wrong
you pronounce like this:
http://www.saiga-jp.com/dic/sound/g2/e69982_tokidoki.wav