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Producing words (that you've never heard before).
Rhino
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I've been studying Latin for awhile now (just for fun, nothing serious).
Anyways, I can read and write it fairly well (at least the very few bits I know).
But pronouncing it is a different story. I'm learning from a book, so obviously don't have the benefit of a teacher.
Also, I'm really bad at pronouncing English words (words I have heard many times before!). So my spoke Latin must be awful.
Thoughts? There is 2 college courses I can take, but that is about it (and won't be able to take them for a few years to do other unrelated stuff).
Anyways, I can read and write it fairly well (at least the very few bits I know).
But pronouncing it is a different story. I'm learning from a book, so obviously don't have the benefit of a teacher.
Also, I'm really bad at pronouncing English words (words I have heard many times before!). So my spoke Latin must be awful.
Thoughts? There is 2 college courses I can take, but that is about it (and won't be able to take them for a few years to do other unrelated stuff).
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In sum, don't worry about it. Skill trumps pronunciation.
From what I remember, 'C' is always a hard sound (kah, never sah). 'V' is pronounced like a 'W' (wah, not vah)... er... that's most of what I remember.
See, the problem being: no one speaks Latin outside of maybe Easter Mass.
Church Latin pronunciation isn't classical pronunciation. It's like trying to pronounce Old English based on Modern English's pronunciation rules. And no two people speak Church Latin the same way.
That's why they just make up their own rules for dead languages. It's simpler if everyone agrees.
Cornelia est puella romana, motherfucker!
(Ecce Romani was awesome)
Hah... that is one of the only complete sentences in Latin I remember.
The others being:
Illegitimus non carborundum
Tempus fugit
And the classics:
Semper ubi sub ubi
Romani i domum (alternately: Romanes eunt domus)
:P
This made me smile.
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For instance, in Ecclesiastical Latin, the quote "vini, vidi, vici" is pronounced "vinny, veedee, veechey" (almost as if it were Italian). In Classical Latin, it's pronounced "whinny, weedy, weekey."
It's for the best if you just don't worry about it. It's basically entirely a written language these days, anyhow.
How many Romans?!
Ahhh, Latin class...
In pictura est Cornelia.
Cornelia est puella Romana.
The first things my Latin teacher taught us were "Vespertillio Vir et Robinus."
I think she made the last bit up.
And despite 6 years of Latin I had never encountered it.
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You did it wrong.
:P
My life is now complete.
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