It is not productive to remember pronunciations of thousands, if not millions, of words in a language. What differentiates natives from foreign speakers is: the former's ability to predict pronunciations of words not encountered before. This knowledge is part of one's native phonology; if you ask natives about that phonology, they can't help you, unless they are trained in phonology.
Cappucino:4 syllable word, predict the stress pattern: alternate; first and third syllables get the stress; ˌkæpʊˈtʃinoʊ (forget about italian pronunciations, it is like telling day laborors in some remote andhra on how to pronunce an english word).
latte: /ˈlɑ:ˌteɪ/
/ɑ/ is odd for la in latte. Not anglicized yet.
Pasta: /ˈpɑ:stə/
In BrE, these words are anglicized, leading to /ˈlæˌteɪ/ and /ˈpæstə/
espresso: /ɛˈsprɛsoʊ/, 3 syllable word, stress the mid.
cafe: /kæˈfeɪ/ cf (/ˈgæf/ gaffe; /ʤəˈræf/ for giraff;)
cafe (in Indian english): /keɪf/
cafeteria: /ˌkæfəˈtirijə/
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