The accents we’ll be talking about are those little orthographic signs that you write on top of vowels to give a syllable prominence or emphasis, basically to indicate that your voice has to stop there for an instant.
But keep checking the blog because in the future, you might discover just how to do an Italian accent! That is a totally different topic, even though it also has to do with the musicality of the Italian language. In this article, we’ll be focusing only on orthographic signs, and not on the wonderful variety of regional variations with which Italians talk.
Ready to go? Start with a bonus, and download the Must-Know Beginner Vocabulary PDF for FREE! (Logged-In Member Only) Table of Contents That’s why it is so important to get Italian accent marks right on the page and to know the few rules that govern them. Have you ever wondered what makes Italian so musical? Among other reasons, there’s the fact that the rhythm inside the sentences is set by raising and lowering one’s tone of voice, dictated by…yes, you guessed right! The accento, which is how you say “accent” in Italian.Īccents and alternation of vowels make Italian so musical!Īccents are little (and often invisible) signs that help us speak and write correctly.