Classical Latin Pronunciation

Shanna

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I've been studying Latin for about a month, and I've really enjoyed it, but I've haven't really understood how to properly pronounce it. I came across this site: http://jcmckeown.com/audio.php
Is this a good site for me to model my pronunciation after?
 
 

Matthaeus

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The pronunciation is very distorted, being American. The guy on it has a thick accent which turned me off; the woman disregards vowel length. I would not recommend this for listening. However, I like the pages with proverbs.
 

Iohannes Aurum

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Shanna

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Do you know of any sites that have a better accent? I'd really like to learn to pronounce Latin well, but I need to listen to some good pronunciation.
 
 

Matthaeus

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Well, I use the Latinum page, where the pronunciation is Anglo-Saxon, however, it is much better, in my opinion. This really is the best site regarding that, to my knowledge.
 

Jaga

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If you want to hear some live latin, you can search on youtube for Luigi Miraglia (or Alousius Miraglia). His pronounciation is italian, but he actually speaks really good. He doesn't recite the sentences, but has an acroasis (for example in his case:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60d6F91rXXI[/youtube]

about latin language itself).
Another person who is able to speak (and excellently so) in latin is german professor Valahfriedus Stroh - here he sings Catullus's Passer:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yJTON21fsE[/youtube]

and here, in this series from the seminarium "Humanitas" you can hear him speak:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_eKUDrvmNY [/youtube]
there are not much better latin speaking people.
In another parts of the same "Humanitas" series you can hear another people from various nations - it's really instructive.
Another really qualified person in speaking latin is American David Morgan, you can hear him here in some latin speaking class:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWm7P6zdldo[/youtube]

To understand all of those vids you have to be a little bit advanced in latin, (but the last one with David Morgan is simple enough), but for hearing how to pronounce they are good enough - and live speech is imho much more useful than read sentences, also because it is necessarily simpler than written latin...
 
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