"Io ho una ciotola."
Translation:I have a bowl.
March 16, 2013
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The first one. The "i" in the combinations cia, cio, ciu has the same function as the "h" in the English combination ch: it changes the sound of the "c" from /k/ to /tʃ/, but is usually not itself pronounced.
Just like in English it's not pronounced "tʃ-hocolate" (the "h" is in combination with "c"), in Italian it's not "tʃ-iotola" but "tʃotola" (the "i" is in the combination cio)
http://www.wordreference.com/iten/ciotola gives it as /ˈtʃɔtola/