>... an English speaker should work mostly on ... ... and on double consonants (like BTW a number of Italians, which regional pronounce can be quite opposite,

>... an English speaker should work mostly on ... ... and on double consonants (like BTW a number of Italians, which regional pronounce can be quite opposite, as an example venetians making any double single and romans making most single doubles) ... The "j" was once used in writing too, called "i consonantica" when it is followed by a vowel, it remained in historical names like Jacopo but became a "normal" i in - say - acciaio (that was once written acciajo).