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by pmontra 1098 days ago
Only when written, of course.

In Italian the written letters ce and ci are pronounced with a soft c.

There are plenty of words with a hard c (a k) followed by an e or an i. Italian alphabet doesn't have a k character so those sounds are written as che and chi. That is, in Italian ch is the k sound. Most (all?) of the other languages of the area use ch for a soft c.