Italian pronounciation?

Question

what do open and closed O sound like?
what do open and closed E sound like?
Please give me somes examples, and teach me how to pronounce with the difference.

Answer 1

Italian has pure vowels, so they each only make one sound.

O - sounds like your say it in English (as in okay, or in Italian, domani, pronounce doh-ma-nee)

E - Sounds like eh, kind of an a sound (as in essere in Italian, pronounced eh-ss-ah-ray)

Answer 2

Open O sounds like in 'short'
Closed O " " in 'go'
Open E " " in 'sand'
Closed E " " in 'men' (not man)
Examples:
in Italian exists some words that we write in the same manner but pronounced in a different way, that is because the mark (we don't use it, but you can find it on every dictionary). Note: è is an E open, é is an E closed: Here for you:
Botte with the open O (plural of Botta) means 'Blows'
Botte " " closed O means 'Barrel'
Colla " " open O means 'Glue'
colla " " closed O means 'with the', (colla it,s a contraction of con la=with the, and la is an article in a sing.femin. form).
Perchè is the way we ask (Why) and answer (Because), this word has both the Es, open and closed. The first is closed and the second is open.
Some simple rules of the Italian language:
Word ending in O is male and the plural end in I (like in see)
" " in A is female " " " in E (like in men)
The adjectif end with the same vocal of the subject. Examples:
sing.male 'nuovo amico' (co=coh)(new friend)(he)
plur.male 'nuovi amici' (ci=chee) (new friends)(they)
sing.fem. 'nuova amica' (ca=kah)(new friend)(she)
plur.fem. 'nuove amiche' (che=keh) (new friends)(they the girls). There are some words ending in E in the sing.male form and they all end in I in the plur.male form. 'Male' sing. of 'Bad, or Evil' becomes 'Mali' 'Bads or Evils'.
Curiosity:
all the world says 'Bravo!' everytimes. Instead we say Bravo, Bravi, Brava and Brave. Ciao.

Answer 3

The open O sounds like AWE.
The closed O sounds like the O in BOW.
The Open E sounds like the A in MAN.
The closed E sounds like the E in EGG.

Answer 4

Alice- Ah-lee-CHE Chiara- Kee-ah-rah Margherita- Mar-gur-reet-ah Giulia- Jool-ya Giuliana- Joo-lee-ah-nah Cecilia- Che-CHEEL-ya Emilia- E-meel-ya Amelia- Ah-meel-ya Francesca- Frahn-chess-ka Simona- See-moan-ah Claudia- Klow-dyah Eleonora- El-ee-oh-naw-rah Giovanna- Jo-VAHN-ah Grazia- Graht-sah Matteo- Mah-tee-o Mattia- Mah-tee-ah Luca- lavatory-cha Simone- See-maw-ne Francesco- Frahn-chess-co Davide- Da-vee-de Michele- Mee-ke-le Gabriele- Gah-bry-le Pasquale- Pas-sqawl-e Giovanni- Jo-vahn-nee Emanuele- E-mahn-you-el Giacomo- Ja-ko-mo Giorgio- Jor-jo Lucio- lavatory-chee-o

Answer 5

i think closed O sound like 'ou' in english, as Orvieto, Orango'
(Ouh, r, vee, eh, touh) (Ouh, rah, n, goh)
while open O sound like 'over' in english as Orto, Ora
(Oh, veh r) (Oh, rah)

closed E is like 'escape' in english as Entrata, Enorme
(eh, ntrah, tah) (Eh, noh, rmeh)
open E is like the pronuntiation of 'and' or the letter 'el' as Era, Eva
(Ey, rah) (Ey, vah)

however in the italian language the vocals are not so modulated like the english one, but they are 'plane' so you have to produce an unique suond, without modulation, short sound for closed vocals, a little bit more long sound for open vocals
The pronounciation of the vocals are different in every district, so is difficoult to find people that pronounce them always correctly
:)

I AM SORRY, WHILE I WAS CHECKING MY ANSWER I NOTICED I MESSED WITH THE LINE
OPEN O SOUNDS LIKE 'OU' WHILE CLOSED O SOUNDS LIKE OVER
:)
SORRY

Answer 6

the closed e, sounds like the "a" of "say" (without the "Y" sound)
the open e, it's more similar to the "e" in set

the closed o, sounds like the "o" of "bestow" (without the "w" sound)

the open o sounds like the "augh" in "caught"

assuming you're american, if you're british never mind all I said.

Answer 7

There's basically the o sound...like in the english "sorry" or to the exclaimation "oh"

There's the sound e...like in "bet" or in the exclamation "eh!"