Latin Vowel Pronunciation

Reading and pronouncing Latin vowels for helping students of Latin.

*according to restored classical pronunciations*

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Latin
• Vowels
• Pronunciation
• Teacher

[khananel]

Its ridiculous the way Anglo scholars try to teach the world a 'contrived pronunciation'. Go to the Mediterranean and discover that vowel systems are similar in spoken romance languages and Greek. They are more likely to be closer to Latin than what some Anglo scholars have 'invented'. They're just too arrogant to admit that they're wrong, and have no natural sense of 'Latin' rhythme. Listen to Scorpius Martinus (Italian on YT) or Leni Ribeiro (Brazilian onLibrivox). The real deal.

[latinlessons]

@khananel I always try to encourage my students along the lines of modern Spanish, Italian, and Greek. Thanks for your thoughts and I'll be sure to check out those other readers.

[FireRupee]

Haha, *speaks normally* "pet, let... they, lay. Comparison: *shouts* CIVES DECEM.."

[latinlessons]

Haha, sorry about that! I know I didn't go back and normalize my volume level.

[brainywierdo]

thank you so much for putting this with sounds because i am trying to teach myself latin

[latinlessons]

You're welcome. This summer I am running a Latin Institute and I'd expect to see many more videos up on this channel. Stay tuned!

[Dollydaydream4JC]

Thanks for the video! I'm trying to teach myself Latin from an old first-year Latin book I found. So this is very helpful as I do not have a teacher to help me pronounce the words.

[SirGhepardoK]

Ew, that is for Americans only. Bother is NOT pronounced as bahther, it just sounds laughable.

[ConclusiveRhetoric]

How do you pronounce "Ama te ipsum?"

[TheNonsubscribable]

@Nebur1980

Not exactly, one word at a time is fine. I think the problem comes with getting the flow of the language

[Enysvar]

real latin doesn't roll on R's

[leolucas1980]

As far as I know, the vowel of "they" is actually a diphtong (/eɪ/) and closer than the vowel of "pet" (/ɛ/). Do Latin have any of these features or are the Latin long and short E's only like /e/ pronounced with different lengths?

[InbictaProductionzZ]

@khananel just so you know and without any mischievousness

The Brazilian pronunciation of Portuguese is totally different from that used in Portugal. ''gente'' would be read as ''gentchi'', not to mention other obvious differences, specially in vowel pronunciation. The European Portuguese actually sounds a lot more like this.

[dlamalva1]

@khananel 

[dlamalva1]

@khananel settle a bet please: "nolo contendere" is properly pronounced how? con ten der AY or con ten der EH or con ten der UH

[FranLesPaul]

@MusicalEutopia Well you certainly wouldn't do that in everyday speech, and a rhotic trill and a flap are considered the same at normal speed. And also, it might be wiser used when the r is geminated.

And you aspirate too much, but hey, there's no one among the living qualified to correct you, so what do I know.