Actually, we pretty much know how it would have sounded. Latin poetry is the key, since long sounds and short sounds must be balanced to maintain the meter. The epic poems especially, like the Aeneid, have a very strict meter, and we can use this together with our the knowledge of pronunciation which was saved within the church to get a very accurate idea of how Latin should sound. Also, there is nothing "supposed' about latin being the progenitor of the romance languages.
Well, I am familiar with all the modern Romance languages (I previously worked as a translator for a branch of the UN), and, they certainly give you a way into Latin. However, I acknowldege that there are significant differences between these languages and their (supposed) progenitor. Of course, we can only speculate on what Latin sounded like.
@Boingusboingus i always thought the same that Latin would be very similar to Italian, since i know Spanish i can understand Italian and Portuguese since all 3 came from Latin
But i can't understand a single word of Latin! so no they are not that similar they might sound alike if your first language is English
How does anyone know what an Ancient Roman accent sounded like? Did someone find a cassette tape recording in the forum?? and Uagnim-great job! It's cool if everyone sounds different - I'm sure a Roman citizen from Macedonia and one from Britain sounded quite unique. Even from New York to Pittsburgh, we hear a clear "New York Accent"
I do not understand latin but is latin pronounced the same way it is written? I mean, italian is pronounced that way and it is based on latin... Can someone tell me?
I had been taking latin for 5 years and have got the latinum (a certificate for the knowledge of the latin language) and the letters are pronounced like the germans do (see wikipedia - latin alphabet) except for the c (which is pronounced like the german k), the x, the y and the z. i don't think latin is pronounced like italian because of the accent but I'm not a 100 percent sure ;)
This is a lot more interesting than that awful nerd giving a commencement speech about Star Wars in Latin. The language is so lovely and I enjoy listening to it.
@CIR229 Everyone who's interested in Latin and wants to learn it should have a basic understanding of Latin. Who are you to say the entire population of humans should have a basic understanding of Latin? Because you say so? I disagree.
@queenchimes77 I think you mean "A lot of Spanish is Latin". If a lot of Latin is Spanish, would that mean Spanish came first? I'm not trying to piss you off, I'm just trying to correct a small mistake.
Sounds nice mate, i am looking to learn latin myself and just wanted to find some speech to listen to so i can tune my ears into it and know how to pronounce. thanks for the video
PS i didnt for a second think you were a girl. i think alot of these people have confused feelings
I've heard nearly all Latin-derived Languages like Italian, French, Romanian, Spanish and Portuguese, etc. and this is probably not what Latin sounds like since it sounds like Spanish way too much while I would expect it to sound more or less like modern Italian.
You sound like you could speak Spanish with a good accent. Seeing how Latin is a dead language... I don't know how it'd be pronounced properly... I'm quite interested in knowing that, though.
@707thetruth actually when I made this video I didn't speak any latin I'm just reading uncorrectly. I don't know why so many people is interested in this video. In tis year I've made another one, wherein I speak by myself, however nearly nobody have seen it. I like latin and want to speak with my children in latin since their first day so that latin become such as a mother tongue for them. If you really want to learn latin, I could recommend some very good and enjoyable books. Where are you from
@Uagnim im from the U.S. and i have spanish heritage with some native american
and i love the history of the romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese) . All these languages have latin origin. i would of course want to understand latin a little more, but i still have very little knowledge of most of those languages. i wish to travel to spain, portugaI, italy, france and even greece. But i am still learning. i would love to know some books that would help me with latin.
@707thetruth don't forget that romanian is also a romance language, it is even more interesting to a latinist, because it mantained a lot of grammatical things that western romance languages didn't.
Intersting that you havenative american heritage, it is very rare in the us. I also have some, through my brazilian grandfather.
@707thetruth I would recommend you the books of ørberg. it starts with very simple sentences, then goes to harder and harder texts, and you can teach yourself, just like I did. I bought them by amazon.
there is part one "familia romana" and its workbook, finishing this book you can already read, write, even speak a little bit. There is also part 2 "roma aeterna", if you finish this one, you will be an expert.. and there are some more complementary books.. I will send the links in a message
@wohodude100 wow get a life you pervert looser. this guy is very good looking and you must be a pathetic little man to be jealou to try to force your opinions down other peoples throats. JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP.
@wohodude100 What's your problem? You've got no right to tell this man to shut the...you know..up-mainly becuase you don't even know him! I know people have their own opinions, but seriously!
@victoriaisntsosecret Hey dumbass. My problem is that I have the ability to see and a mind that so I can discern whether to say mr/ms or sir/mam. I see this video, I see a mam because this "dude" looks like a bitch. And as you said "I know people have their own opinions" thats just that you idiot. By the way I told him to man the fuck up not shut the fuck up, but thats funny because I'm going to tell you right now to shut the fuck up because you're a bitch just like the girly sissy in the video
Greetings from Romania !^^ [ps.Transilvania is ours,no motherfucker will come here and just pretend its his.]I fucken love you guys,you`re all a bunch of stupid people,fooling around.srsly nao,do you have brains?
@MelusineMab ??? I didn't understand what you want... if the question is related to the fact that I am Hungarian, and some of us want a part of transilvania to Hungary, it doesn't mean that I agree with them... quiet the oposit... I think the trianon mania is ridiculous.. but pls, discuss this with other people that want transilvania to hungary.. not with me
@MelusineMab lol Romania is one of the weakest countries in the world so i wouldnt get so cocky lmfao. I seriously doubt Romanians would ever be able to prevent any country from taking their lands by force, the only chance they have is to rely on the UN and EU for protection.
You have a nice voice, and you don't look like a girl, But your accent is not so good, because i can't understand what you're saying!The only thing i can understand is ''lingua latina es lingua indoeuropea'' and ''peninsula ibérica'':/...If you traine it will get much better! ;D BYE BYE.Anything contact me!
@tutucia1 thank you very much, gaudeo quod tibi placet vox mea. that time, that I made this video, I didn't know any latin so I also didn't understand what I was reading.. maybe I should delet this video.. but now I can already understand and speak some latin.. tune scis latine?
Bravo! You read Latin well. Never listen to anyone that says Latin is read as English is. Mostly like Spanish, except for c+a/o/u is k (not like the Spanish s or approximate).
Damn good thing I can speak Spanish cause. I dint understand much of what you said but the Spanish did help alot of getting what you said... You talked about your weekend and how you drank a full bottle of 151 and you were liking this girl but she dint put out lol. Jk
I liked his vowels. I always see Latin being spoken with very nasal sounds, like Italian. I feel Latin sounded a lot more like this guy spoke it than like, for instance, the Pope speaks it.
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good...I understand some of what you are reading....I have the gift of speaking in toungs....wich sounds simular to latin.........just wish I knew what comes out of my mouth when I do it.......
sounds like spanish. and definitely sounds like a spanish accent. I know it isn't, but that's what it sounds like to me. thumbs down on me if you really want to...
Who the hell knows what the 'original' accent was; And since 'spoken' latin was apparently so incredibly different than 'written' latin, aren't you'all just speaking 'written' latin anyway? - Go wild.
Yes, but part of the "joy" of Latin learning, is to make it sound as beautiful as possible, based on the very many methods we do, in fact, have of knowing how it sounded. (For example: Roman grammars which described the sounds of letters.)
As for 'spoken' Latin being different from written Latin: we know very little of colloquial speech in Rome, and we can reconstruct very little in terms of common idiom or slang. Classical Latin is a written tongue which may or may not reflect educated speech.
Not to mention the great help that poetry can be in determining pronunciation (assuming there is a rhyming scheme). For example Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are written in verse and thus give hints at what is to be silent, what it s to be pronounced and how.
Its really hard to speak latin, Basically coz the'r no sound records of how latin was spoken 1000 years ago, so the only reference we have is italian a some other languages such as spanish
(wich Is my native language) and maybe - just maybe - french. Although I think you'r doing a great work, except for some little mistakes. Keep on the good work ;)
People, people for some of you who don't know, there is more than 1 way of pronouncing Latin.
Classical Latin and Ecclesiastical Latin.
Most Countries in Europe (If they do study Latin) will use the Ecclesiastical Pronounciation as to not confuse them, (Like here in Italy we use that pronounciation because it is similar to Italian) same with the other Latin Countries, like Portugal and Spain or Romania
Seemingly you're pronouncing V and U differently, but that's Vicipaedia orthography fault.
For the Romans the letter V was in fact U, and IPA /v/ sound wasn't associated with it at all. Reading texts with all V often helps (at least that's how Romans used to write Latin when it was actually spoken)
Thats not necessarily true. The accent taught as the "correct" accent is just the regional variety spoken in Rome. Almost every region differed in pronounciation of the language. The Italian accent currently spkoen was how the Tuscans would pronouce their Latin.
its Latin all right, for someone who doesn't understand shit about this language it must sound like Spanish, that, by the way, is directly derived from Latin.
Buena, brother. Qué bien que no hayas confundido los sonidos como algunas bestias que pronuncian 'ch' cuando tienen 'c', o que monoptongues 'ae' en 'e', etc. Saludos
well.. portuguese has a very strong accent in any nonnasal language... and I do not nasalise any "an", "on", "in" etc.. if you would say may acent is too hungarian or russian, perhaps I could agree... but portuguese noway
There's a catholic priest who lives close to me and he speaks latin, so I'm judging your pronunciation through the latin I use to hear from the priest.
Not bad, not bad at all. Now I know where the portugese accent came from. However, don't pronounce QU like that. When U sits after a Q, it is pronounced V. So, for example, "Linque" becomes "Lincve". Also, most make the mistake of pronouncing "CI" as "SI". As in the english word "civic". Actually, it's CHI as in "chin".
well, perhaps I didn't understand what you wanted to say.. but pronouncing QUI as KVI is german, hungarian, and some other central european accents... and although I live in brasil, my mothertongue is not portuguese.. I'm hungarian
I meant that your latin sounded very much like portugese, I didn't know that you lived in brasil or that you were hungarian. However, QU was pronounced KV. For example Coloquium is pronounced KOLOKVIUM. Quando is pronounced KVANDO. Quid is KVID. And so on... The fact that so many make the mistake, doesn't mean that it is correct. Latin was spoken in so many regions, at the time of the romans, that accent was different from region to region. But in rome, they spoke it wuith KV :P
ah ok. nut how do you know that in the ancient Rome people pronounced kvando? I haven't seen any reconstruction propousing that. It's true that the intervocalic and wordbeginner 'u' semivowels (i.e. /w/-s) changed some time into nonfricative /v/ (it is like 'v' in modern Italian, or russian 'в'... not as strong as english 'v' or german 'w').. So e.g.: CAVERE, wich had been pronounced as "kawere" became "kavere"...
However the 'u' semivowels after a /k/ or a /g/ didn't change.. so QVID was always "kwid"... if it would have been changed together with the other 'u' semivowels, nowadays italian, spanish etc.. wouldn't say "kwando" but "kvando"... Ok, you said that the accent was different from region to region. but if in the whole latinworld "kawere" changed to "kavere", "kwando" also sould have changed to "kvando".
Damn these phonetics :) C is pronounced as K unless it's followed by an I or E. Then it becomes CHI, CHE. As in Dolce and Vici (the hard CH as in "child"). Uagnim said at one point "publikis" that's why I made the comment. Uagnim, you're perfectly right about the U and V, in you last comment, but still, it's not a perfect U, but a light V, or a vibrating U. Hard to explain, really. There was a Gregroian chant here on youtube that was absolutely perfect.
That's not classical pronunciation, then, but something else (Italian accent?).
Than, C was always pronounced /k/. "Publikis" is the correct pronunciation. V (consonantic) is pronounced /w/, so it's like the English "w" in water. The pronunciation changed later when the language began to develop further.
"V" was pronounced like "W" in english, because The letter "V" was identical to "U" in some cases. The Romans were too lazy to write the letter "U" so they just wrote it as: "V"
that was awesome, considering i have no idea what Latin accent sounds like or what u just said
I'm taking a online high school course next year and im try to decide between French or Latin. Latin was never offered at my highschool and all my french teacher teaches is how to be a huge gossip
online high school? how is that? :D well, if you want to learn such a normal, usefull language, choose the french, although I prefer latin.. and where are you from?
Actually, we pretty much know how it would have sounded. Latin poetry is the key, since long sounds and short sounds must be balanced to maintain the meter. The epic poems especially, like the Aeneid, have a very strict meter, and we can use this together with our the knowledge of pronunciation which was saved within the church to get a very accurate idea of how Latin should sound. Also, there is nothing "supposed' about latin being the progenitor of the romance languages.
ncebel29 4 months ago 3
Well, I am familiar with all the modern Romance languages (I previously worked as a translator for a branch of the UN), and, they certainly give you a way into Latin. However, I acknowldege that there are significant differences between these languages and their (supposed) progenitor. Of course, we can only speculate on what Latin sounded like.
Boingusboingus 6 months ago
Unsurprisingly, it sounds very much like Italian.
Boingusboingus 7 months ago
@Boingusboingus i always thought the same that Latin would be very similar to Italian, since i know Spanish i can understand Italian and Portuguese since all 3 came from Latin
But i can't understand a single word of Latin! so no they are not that similar they might sound alike if your first language is English
edgartj17 6 months ago
How does anyone know what an Ancient Roman accent sounded like? Did someone find a cassette tape recording in the forum?? and Uagnim-great job! It's cool if everyone sounds different - I'm sure a Roman citizen from Macedonia and one from Britain sounded quite unique. Even from New York to Pittsburgh, we hear a clear "New York Accent"
820krx7 7 months ago
Don't waste ur time on Latin.
jattdetatta12365 7 months ago
@jattdetatta12365 Tell that to all doctors, lawyers, judges, composers and musicians who need it and use it everyday.
bachthoven1685 6 months ago
can someone help me translate this into latin: the will to serve
nigandmad 7 months ago
@nigandmad maybe: voluntas iuvare (helping); voluntas servire (more slave-like)
DonenDone10101 7 months ago
@DonenDone10101 *that voluntas might have to be volunti*...sorry...
DonenDone10101 7 months ago
@DonenDone10101 >>>for the second translation...sorry...
DonenDone10101 7 months ago
@nigandmad voluntas servire
Is what you want.
ninjelephant 7 months ago
sou8nds like Spanish
Plasjif 7 months ago
It sounds wonderful to me. But I don't speak Latin at all. Though I'm stunned by your exceptional beauty!
Leviwosc 7 months ago
That made me laugh! I thought it was a girl without giving him a proper look, then a deep voice came out. Phew, BRB going to change my pants..... :)
VampireProductionsUK 8 months ago
I do not understand latin but is latin pronounced the same way it is written? I mean, italian is pronounced that way and it is based on latin... Can someone tell me?
jopeteus 8 months ago
@jopeteus
I had been taking latin for 5 years and have got the latinum (a certificate for the knowledge of the latin language) and the letters are pronounced like the germans do (see wikipedia - latin alphabet) except for the c (which is pronounced like the german k), the x, the y and the z. i don't think latin is pronounced like italian because of the accent but I'm not a 100 percent sure ;)
AKAc0re 7 months ago
Don't stress the last A in 'Romanae' but the first. AE is just one syllable.
LaureanoLuna 8 months ago
@CIR229 why? just curious..
viewervideo011242234 8 months ago
Pendejo
Loquendo03 9 months ago
@Loquendo03 Te pasas de verga
tonycns 8 months ago
@CIR229 Well, that is a ridiculous expectation.
Vraya 10 months ago
austrians have the best latin accent.. even better than italiansXD
mag0024 11 months ago
Sounds like Spanish lol.
anythingnew 11 months ago
Casus belli in hoc signo vinces veritas vos liberabit.
Casus belli in hoc signo vinces in aeternum amen.
CRADLEFANWILKINS 11 months ago
Quite good. A little bit of Hungarian accent but better then the american Latin teachers.
Zorius1 11 months ago 10
you speak Latin like someone speaks Italian language. try a bit rough tongue ;)
TheDambadamba 11 months ago
DAMN! I thought u was a girl
kingtaythe2 1 year ago
This is a lot more interesting than that awful nerd giving a commencement speech about Star Wars in Latin. The language is so lovely and I enjoy listening to it.
HunsV 1 year ago
lol you sound like your speaking spanish
kokulink 1 year ago
creo que me enamore
canehippian 1 year ago
I thought your accent was either Spanish or Italian. I personally am trying to keep my accent Slavic. :-)
Delodephius 1 year ago
@CIR229 Alright then :)
YouStoleMyTube 1 year ago
@YouStoleMyTube lmfao i know right? latins friggin hard shiz
sammelina12 1 year ago
@CIR229 Everyone who's interested in Latin and wants to learn it should have a basic understanding of Latin. Who are you to say the entire population of humans should have a basic understanding of Latin? Because you say so? I disagree.
YouStoleMyTube 1 year ago
GOD DAMNIT THIS IS A DUDE..
DeviousTelevision 1 year ago
you wrong pronunciation....
thefirststar87 1 year ago
I'm curious, what is your mother language? I'm taking Latin courses now and I'm having trouble with the language, slightly.
ShatteredSymphony 1 year ago
@ShatteredSymphony My mother tongue is Hungarian. What kind of latin courses are you taking?
Uagnim 1 year ago
Bona. Sed similis hispanicus non.
SATANECRONOMICUS 1 year ago
@queenchimes77 I think you mean "A lot of Spanish is Latin". If a lot of Latin is Spanish, would that mean Spanish came first? I'm not trying to piss you off, I'm just trying to correct a small mistake.
arpoky 1 year ago
@queenchimes77 same with Italian, romanian, french, and portuguese....all im saying is latin has a different accent
MaStErPhReSh333 1 year ago
Assassins creed's ezio is a good accent lol
seawolf301 1 year ago
@seawolf301 he speaks italian, not latin. :D and actually its not that good.
zalkarn 1 year ago
Melius quam tu me
hyperburger 1 year ago
Sounds nice mate, i am looking to learn latin myself and just wanted to find some speech to listen to so i can tune my ears into it and know how to pronounce. thanks for the video
PS i didnt for a second think you were a girl. i think alot of these people have confused feelings
blazednlovinit 1 year ago
I've heard nearly all Latin-derived Languages like Italian, French, Romanian, Spanish and Portuguese, etc. and this is probably not what Latin sounds like since it sounds like Spanish way too much while I would expect it to sound more or less like modern Italian.
IohannesC 1 year ago
u sounds too spanish. The accents aren't right sounding
MaStErPhReSh333 1 year ago
hahaa:))) i expected to hear a female voice, but nooo it wasnt :)))
GadgetVision 1 year ago
Hercle! Hoc bonum est! Me oportet exercere meam linguam latinam. Mihi placet lingua latina.
maati009 1 year ago
That's so cool, I want to learn this language... Romanian Latin right?
Excril 1 year ago
You sound like you could speak Spanish with a good accent. Seeing how Latin is a dead language... I don't know how it'd be pronounced properly... I'm quite interested in knowing that, though.
Zerjio 1 year ago
NOT BAD ITS GOOD ACCENT KEEP PRATICING..SOUNDS BIT MODERN AND YOU USING ENGLISH RIDEM
carameloxx 1 year ago
WTF!? This a girl who speaks like a dude or what?
praqc 1 year ago
intersting..
i'm from brazil and can understand few things
Gladddy 1 year ago
lol you look like a girl
frederik1509 1 year ago
his looking of the text up... xD
Rocker73827 1 year ago
It sound similar to my dialect from Sardinia
SalvatoreSardo 1 year ago
good
bananapeto 1 year ago
ur accent is fine :)
and i do NOT think u look like a girl at all ^^ haha ur accually kinda hot
kathleengoldsbury95 1 year ago
Pronuntiatio tua satis suavis est, gaude! :o)
idaspe 1 year ago
learning and speaking latin is way easier if you already know spanish = )
Varuzu 1 year ago
ur cute
cdm0014 1 year ago
sounds like a priest
hackingtime88 1 year ago
your very good looking guy and speaking latin adds to your attractiveness
707thetruth 1 year ago
@707thetruth Oh, thank you very much. I've read your arguments with little men, like wohodude, and thanks for defending me.
Uagnim 1 year ago
@Uagnim no problem. i think that it's great that you speak latin, i really want to learn the language.
707thetruth 1 year ago
@707thetruth actually when I made this video I didn't speak any latin I'm just reading uncorrectly. I don't know why so many people is interested in this video. In tis year I've made another one, wherein I speak by myself, however nearly nobody have seen it. I like latin and want to speak with my children in latin since their first day so that latin become such as a mother tongue for them. If you really want to learn latin, I could recommend some very good and enjoyable books. Where are you from
Uagnim 1 year ago
@Uagnim im from the U.S. and i have spanish heritage with some native american
and i love the history of the romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese) . All these languages have latin origin. i would of course want to understand latin a little more, but i still have very little knowledge of most of those languages. i wish to travel to spain, portugaI, italy, france and even greece. But i am still learning. i would love to know some books that would help me with latin.
707thetruth 1 year ago
@707thetruth don't forget that romanian is also a romance language, it is even more interesting to a latinist, because it mantained a lot of grammatical things that western romance languages didn't.
Intersting that you havenative american heritage, it is very rare in the us. I also have some, through my brazilian grandfather.
Uagnim 1 year ago
@707thetruth I would recommend you the books of ørberg. it starts with very simple sentences, then goes to harder and harder texts, and you can teach yourself, just like I did. I bought them by amazon.
there is part one "familia romana" and its workbook, finishing this book you can already read, write, even speak a little bit. There is also part 2 "roma aeterna", if you finish this one, you will be an expert.. and there are some more complementary books.. I will send the links in a message
Uagnim 1 year ago
are u a girl or a boy?
MrNoNaMe1107 1 year ago
@MrNoNaMe1107 are you blind or stupid
707thetruth 1 year ago
Quite good.
zugurudumba 1 year ago
Damn you look like a chick. Cut your hair or grow some on your face. Either way just man the fuck up
wohodude100 1 year ago
@wohodude100 fuck i'm a girl i think hes hot i bet you look like shit
707thetruth 1 year ago
@707thetruth well shit do you have lesbian tendencies then? Cuz thats kind of hot
wohodude100 1 year ago
@wohodude100 wow get a life you pervert looser. this guy is very good looking and you must be a pathetic little man to be jealou to try to force your opinions down other peoples throats. JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP.
707thetruth 1 year ago
@wohodude100 What's your problem? You've got no right to tell this man to shut the...you know..up-mainly becuase you don't even know him! I know people have their own opinions, but seriously!
victoriaisntsosecret 1 year ago
@victoriaisntsosecret Hey dumbass. My problem is that I have the ability to see and a mind that so I can discern whether to say mr/ms or sir/mam. I see this video, I see a mam because this "dude" looks like a bitch. And as you said "I know people have their own opinions" thats just that you idiot. By the way I told him to man the fuck up not shut the fuck up, but thats funny because I'm going to tell you right now to shut the fuck up because you're a bitch just like the girly sissy in the video
wohodude100 1 year ago
I think you had a really great latin accent. Considering its a fairly dead language, you spoke very quickly though, it was hard for me to understand
XJustAnotherOutcastX 1 year ago
u doing very good!
chegger401 1 year ago
you are spanish right ?
adysl 1 year ago
@adysl italian...i was close :P
adysl 1 year ago
and it's not a girl :(
direwitch 1 year ago
can you post another video ?Then i can see how is your accent now.
tutucia1 1 year ago
@tutucia1 okay.. I made it now, you can find it among my videos.
Uagnim 1 year ago
Greetings from Romania !^^ [ps.Transilvania is ours,no motherfucker will come here and just pretend its his.]I fucken love you guys,you`re all a bunch of stupid people,fooling around.srsly nao,do you have brains?
Btw,find a fire quickly and go die in it.
8-|You`re all the same
MelusineMab 1 year ago
@MelusineMab ??? I didn't understand what you want... if the question is related to the fact that I am Hungarian, and some of us want a part of transilvania to Hungary, it doesn't mean that I agree with them... quiet the oposit... I think the trianon mania is ridiculous.. but pls, discuss this with other people that want transilvania to hungary.. not with me
Uagnim 1 year ago
@MelusineMab what the fuck are you talking about? he's trying to learn latin you twat.
BillKiernan 1 year ago
@MelusineMab lol Romania is one of the weakest countries in the world so i wouldnt get so cocky lmfao. I seriously doubt Romanians would ever be able to prevent any country from taking their lands by force, the only chance they have is to rely on the UN and EU for protection.
Retro90Flashback 1 year ago
Ah gawd.You have some problems with the Latin,srsly nao.Not only the pronuntiation,but also the accent isn
MelusineMab 1 year ago
You have a nice voice, and you don't look like a girl, But your accent is not so good, because i can't understand what you're saying!The only thing i can understand is ''lingua latina es lingua indoeuropea'' and ''peninsula ibérica'':/...If you traine it will get much better! ;D BYE BYE.Anything contact me!
tutucia1 1 year ago
@tutucia1 thank you very much, gaudeo quod tibi placet vox mea. that time, that I made this video, I didn't know any latin so I also didn't understand what I was reading.. maybe I should delet this video.. but now I can already understand and speak some latin.. tune scis latine?
Uagnim 1 year ago
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tutucia1 1 year ago
@tutucia1 I just arrived today from Italy.. I've spent one week i Rome in the latin school of Luigi Miraglia... do you know it?
Uagnim 1 year ago
You look like a chick
tmazz85 1 year ago
Whoever thought you were a girl was an idiot, and this sounds beautiful. I want to learn.
rhammes07 2 years ago
@rhammes07 thank you
Uagnim 2 years ago
Concordia civium murus urbium
plo435 2 years ago
lol i also thought that you are girl until i heard your voice xDD
Dariusz31 2 years ago
Bravo! You read Latin well. Never listen to anyone that says Latin is read as English is. Mostly like Spanish, except for c+a/o/u is k (not like the Spanish s or approximate).
Kayis5 2 years ago 3
oh shit sorry i thought u were a girl
i actually clicked this cuz u looked hot O.O
xD
TheJunkieBox 2 years ago 93
same here. LMAO
LJdaentertainer 2 years ago 2
@TheJunkieBox wow what a perv
707thetruth 1 year ago
@TheJunkieBox fag
PepsiPope 1 year ago
@TheJunkieBox hahaha like me xDD
nfsracer67 11 months ago
no offense, but mexicans are kind of butchering spanish. i cant even listen to spanish the same way now....
ForWhomTheBellTolls5 2 years ago
lol tru
Stahio 2 years ago
id like to learn latin.. but i dont kno wer to start..without having to pay :( but i love his accent :D love teh language
DarkNephera 2 years ago 2
@DarkNephera
im taking it in highschool, and im learning fast. try taking a school class or maybe a third party latin program
ForWhomTheBellTolls5 2 years ago
repubblicae romanae is speaked without the a in the prononciation: it's like repubblike romane
Vale atque vale
lm99990 2 years ago
sounds like a spanish native speaker reading latin....
but as spanish is very closely related that is not as terrible as english (worse - american) native speakers sound like....
Youmakemefart 2 years ago
Wow your pronunciation is great. And your accent shows that you are a hispanic speaker
JediPaladin 2 years ago
thanks, but I don't speak spanish.. I am a hungarian speaker
Uagnim 2 years ago
Oh, I saw some comments above about mexican and spanish etc and I got confused. I still think you sound hispanic/spanish though XD
JediPaladin 2 years ago
Spanish, Italian, Latin, all beautiful.
Antiks72 2 years ago
Damn good thing I can speak Spanish cause. I dint understand much of what you said but the Spanish did help alot of getting what you said... You talked about your weekend and how you drank a full bottle of 151 and you were liking this girl but she dint put out lol. Jk
639426 2 years ago
the vowels stick out to me...but the description explains that a bit. It sould sound really good if a bit more time was in it. the 'a' stuck out.
drummer1492 2 years ago
I liked his vowels. I always see Latin being spoken with very nasal sounds, like Italian. I feel Latin sounded a lot more like this guy spoke it than like, for instance, the Pope speaks it.
Eikinkloster 2 years ago 2
very medieval
gippi86 2 years ago
In rythm, but not in phonology, too much. :)
1PostPoMoMaN1 2 years ago
Sounds like a Mexican speaking Latin.
mrceebees14 2 years ago
lol true
concussedcarneous 2 years ago
Mexicans have great accents for Latin
iljorgeruiz 2 years ago
But yet no one wants to be mistaken for a Mexican.
mrceebees14 2 years ago
@mrceebees14 LOL thats messed
DjWhooCares 2 years ago
Not by much.
1PostPoMoMaN1 2 years ago
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yeah it sounds horrible, mexicans have a bad accent
goldsaga2099a 2 years ago
i suposse that is latin?
g36c1 2 years ago
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good...I understand some of what you are reading....I have the gift of speaking in toungs....wich sounds simular to latin.........just wish I knew what comes out of my mouth when I do it.......
drum509 2 years ago
sounds like spanish. and definitely sounds like a spanish accent. I know it isn't, but that's what it sounds like to me. thumbs down on me if you really want to...
CommunistCookie 2 years ago
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Bob0p 2 years ago
o, you have such a sweet voice...
whatyouknowigot 2 years ago 5
i agree
just0me0again 2 years ago
Think they'll say that about English in the distant future ? - Imagine that
Youbian 2 years ago 2
Who the hell knows what the 'original' accent was; And since 'spoken' latin was apparently so incredibly different than 'written' latin, aren't you'all just speaking 'written' latin anyway? - Go wild.
Youbian 2 years ago 2
Yes, but part of the "joy" of Latin learning, is to make it sound as beautiful as possible, based on the very many methods we do, in fact, have of knowing how it sounded. (For example: Roman grammars which described the sounds of letters.)
As for 'spoken' Latin being different from written Latin: we know very little of colloquial speech in Rome, and we can reconstruct very little in terms of common idiom or slang. Classical Latin is a written tongue which may or may not reflect educated speech.
LiamScouse 2 years ago
Not to mention the great help that poetry can be in determining pronunciation (assuming there is a rhyming scheme). For example Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are written in verse and thus give hints at what is to be silent, what it s to be pronounced and how.
joness105639 2 years ago
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Youbian 2 years ago
Europaea is pronounced "europeea"
the "ae" is pronounced "e", when derived as a genitive and "a+e" in some other instances.
To reduce confusion, in Romanian we write only "e" in the first instance. Example:
"casa" -> cas[ae] (romanian: case) vs.
"aero" (romanian aer)
MarcvsHdr 2 years ago
but that's the eclesiastical pronunciation.. I study the reconstructed one
Uagnim 2 years ago
"ae" is pronounced as an "i" would be. Europaea would be pronounced "Euro-pie-uh"
destinyandbeyond1 2 years ago
Its really hard to speak latin, Basically coz the'r no sound records of how latin was spoken 1000 years ago, so the only reference we have is italian a some other languages such as spanish
(wich Is my native language) and maybe - just maybe - french. Although I think you'r doing a great work, except for some little mistakes. Keep on the good work ;)
Vicar1ous 2 years ago
People, people for some of you who don't know, there is more than 1 way of pronouncing Latin.
Classical Latin and Ecclesiastical Latin.
Most Countries in Europe (If they do study Latin) will use the Ecclesiastical Pronounciation as to not confuse them, (Like here in Italy we use that pronounciation because it is similar to Italian) same with the other Latin Countries, like Portugal and Spain or Romania
LANCERMAMCER 2 years ago
salve ha thats like the only word i know well sorta
highonmakeup94 2 years ago
Seemingly you're pronouncing V and U differently, but that's Vicipaedia orthography fault.
For the Romans the letter V was in fact U, and IPA /v/ sound wasn't associated with it at all. Reading texts with all V often helps (at least that's how Romans used to write Latin when it was actually spoken)
firstnah 2 years ago
yes, I know it
Uagnim 2 years ago
Thats not necessarily true. The accent taught as the "correct" accent is just the regional variety spoken in Rome. Almost every region differed in pronounciation of the language. The Italian accent currently spkoen was how the Tuscans would pronouce their Latin.
mcohen1993 2 years ago
Thats not Latin!!!!!!! Its fucking spanish
KILLER21402 2 years ago
??? why spanish?
Uagnim 2 years ago
its Latin all right, for someone who doesn't understand shit about this language it must sound like Spanish, that, by the way, is directly derived from Latin.
beyondersam 2 years ago
Buena, brother. Qué bien que no hayas confundido los sonidos como algunas bestias que pronuncian 'ch' cuando tienen 'c', o que monoptongues 'ae' en 'e', etc. Saludos
magisterdoctus 2 years ago
Not bad at all, but it's very discretely similar to portuguese pronunciation, you need just a little improvement
ordinaryman1982 2 years ago
well.. portuguese has a very strong accent in any nonnasal language... and I do not nasalise any "an", "on", "in" etc.. if you would say may acent is too hungarian or russian, perhaps I could agree... but portuguese noway
Uagnim 2 years ago
There's a catholic priest who lives close to me and he speaks latin, so I'm judging your pronunciation through the latin I use to hear from the priest.
ordinaryman1982 2 years ago
Not bad, not bad at all. Now I know where the portugese accent came from. However, don't pronounce QU like that. When U sits after a Q, it is pronounced V. So, for example, "Linque" becomes "Lincve". Also, most make the mistake of pronouncing "CI" as "SI". As in the english word "civic". Actually, it's CHI as in "chin".
karamazovnew 2 years ago
well, perhaps I didn't understand what you wanted to say.. but pronouncing QUI as KVI is german, hungarian, and some other central european accents... and although I live in brasil, my mothertongue is not portuguese.. I'm hungarian
Uagnim 2 years ago
I meant that your latin sounded very much like portugese, I didn't know that you lived in brasil or that you were hungarian. However, QU was pronounced KV. For example Coloquium is pronounced KOLOKVIUM. Quando is pronounced KVANDO. Quid is KVID. And so on... The fact that so many make the mistake, doesn't mean that it is correct. Latin was spoken in so many regions, at the time of the romans, that accent was different from region to region. But in rome, they spoke it wuith KV :P
karamazovnew 2 years ago
ah ok. nut how do you know that in the ancient Rome people pronounced kvando? I haven't seen any reconstruction propousing that. It's true that the intervocalic and wordbeginner 'u' semivowels (i.e. /w/-s) changed some time into nonfricative /v/ (it is like 'v' in modern Italian, or russian 'в'... not as strong as english 'v' or german 'w').. So e.g.: CAVERE, wich had been pronounced as "kawere" became "kavere"...
Uagnim 2 years ago
However the 'u' semivowels after a /k/ or a /g/ didn't change.. so QVID was always "kwid"... if it would have been changed together with the other 'u' semivowels, nowadays italian, spanish etc.. wouldn't say "kwando" but "kvando"... Ok, you said that the accent was different from region to region. but if in the whole latinworld "kawere" changed to "kavere", "kwando" also sould have changed to "kvando".
Uagnim 2 years ago
but c is always pronounced as k in classical latin
amicusnemini 2 years ago
Damn these phonetics :) C is pronounced as K unless it's followed by an I or E. Then it becomes CHI, CHE. As in Dolce and Vici (the hard CH as in "child"). Uagnim said at one point "publikis" that's why I made the comment. Uagnim, you're perfectly right about the U and V, in you last comment, but still, it's not a perfect U, but a light V, or a vibrating U. Hard to explain, really. There was a Gregroian chant here on youtube that was absolutely perfect.
karamazovnew 2 years ago
All the books I've read say to pronounce c as k and v as w, always, no matter what, even with a gun pointed to your head.
amicusnemini 2 years ago 2
That's not classical pronunciation, then, but something else (Italian accent?).
Than, C was always pronounced /k/. "Publikis" is the correct pronunciation. V (consonantic) is pronounced /w/, so it's like the English "w" in water. The pronunciation changed later when the language began to develop further.
Vortarulo 2 years ago
"V" was pronounced like "W" in english, because The letter "V" was identical to "U" in some cases. The Romans were too lazy to write the letter "U" so they just wrote it as: "V"
Tavi13 2 years ago
ME.MVLTVM.IVVIT. :)
kakosuranosx 2 years ago
respect =D
youmakemesick94 2 years ago
Ahh, I'm glad you're not speaking in like the medieval Latin, I hate that pronunciation so much...
mario54671 2 years ago
that was awesome, considering i have no idea what Latin accent sounds like or what u just said
I'm taking a online high school course next year and im try to decide between French or Latin. Latin was never offered at my highschool and all my french teacher teaches is how to be a huge gossip
EmoKid0512 2 years ago
online high school? how is that? :D well, if you want to learn such a normal, usefull language, choose the french, although I prefer latin.. and where are you from?
Uagnim 2 years ago
I'm from wisconsin. The online high school is called Insight.
EmoKid0512 2 years ago
well, I'm sorry, I really like geography, but I don't know wisconsin. could you tell me where it is?
but online high school means that you haven't got to go there, just learn everything at home? or what?