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- "Sei di luglio?"
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I googled. In Italian, days of the month except for the first are cardinal numbers. So it's "first of July", but "six of July".
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You wouldn't say "are you from July" in English to ask if someone was born in July. It's just not used. Some phrases need to be translated as whole phrases between languages because translating word by word doesn't work.
Yes. Transcribed into IPA, those words would be [se] and [sɛj], respectively. The [e] sound sounds something kinda like the "i" in "did," and the [ɛ] sound sounds more like the "e" in "bed." Also «sei» ends with a bit of an "ee" sound or a "y" sound at the end, kinda like in the word "boy." Of course, English does not have great examples of these sounds. Portuguese has these two different "e" sounds; so does French and Catalan, but not Spanish.