In the italian language do you prnounce the first two letters in th e word CHe as in the spanish country CHile

Question

or as in the english word orCHid???

Answer 1

Its like Chile...

Answer 2

look it up in an online italion dictionary

Answer 3

C followed by i or e is pronounced as ch in english (child or chile), C followed by any other letter, including h, is pronounced as k (there is no k in the italian language).

in italy we write Cile for Chile.

but sc followed by i or e is pronounced as sh in english, if followed by any other letter its pronounced sk.

Answer 4

As in orchid the h makes it a hard sound. It works with g too. For example Alghero.

Answer 5

there are lots of misguided answers here...

but allow me to help you out: LISTEN TO MAROC, HE IS THE ONLY ONE that is completely right...

Answer 6

in italian a 'c' followed by an 'h' ==ch== makes a 'k' sound

a 'c' followed by an 'e' or an 'i' ==ce== ==ci== sounds like 'ch'

Answer 7

orCHid is right

Listen: http://www.askoxford.com/languages/it/to...

Answer 8

mimi and maroc have it spot on, no one else seems to know what they are talking about.

Buonogiornata!  Ciao!

Answer 9

che = ke (english)

c'e = che (english)

Answer 10

In Italian, ch is pronounced like k.