Penultimate Stress Rule: How to accent any Latin word CORRECTLY
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Published 2022-02-04
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00:00 Intro to the Penultimate Stress Rule
00:50 Monosyllabic & Disyllabic Words
01:01 Polysyllabic Words
02:32 What makes a syllable long or short?
04:12 Examples in Practice
07:41 Exception 1: some words that end in -c
09:02 Exception 2: enclitics on polysyllabic words
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All Comments (21)
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As a person who studies both Latin and Ancient Greek in school right now, I want to say that your videos really help me, especially in Latin.
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I have studied Latin for two years in school, medical terminology after that, and two short classes on Latin for fun, and NOW, with this video, I finally understood the stress rules! 😍 Only reading about the rules in a book or having a teacher repeat it is too abstract for me, I really needed these examples and explanations. Thank you!
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I'm so glad you've touched the stress rules of Latin! Thanks again, Luke.
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I really love you’re doing these kind of videos in these particular places. It feels like a documentary. I know you could easily explain this topic at the commodity of your house or whatever location, but you doing it here makes me feel like I am there with you, listening to the things you say. Like a tourist and a tour guide.
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Very interesting! The illīc example's stress sounds sort of what's happened to many French words where the last syllable is stressed today, while earlier they had another syllable after that which is now silent
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I'm not a Latin scholar--just 4 years of classes, long ago. Using the stress rules, as you pointed them out, really does make the word roots stand out verbally. And when I recite from the Aeneidas, using the stress accents and verbally prolonging the long vowels, even when they're not stressed, and trilling the "r"s as you explained elsewhere, it really does sound very poetic! Thanks for the videos!!
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Your videos are part of the impetus for my decision at 48 to quit my dead-end job of 20 years (that I never loved) to go back to school for Romance Languages, something I'm passionate about. I'm moving to Rome, Italy this Summer and start grad school in October. I'm not worried because, as far as I'm concerned, for the first time in my life, I've chosen to live. Gratias tibi 🙏
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I think for an italian speaker is pretty common to catch up on prosody, we kept almost the same stress as in latin... great video!
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Italian here! I have to be honest, I am finally appreciating Latin and I'm actively studying it via Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata. Thanks, Luke. You made me realize how cool Latin is and how back in liceo I was good at it, but my approach to it was quite toxic due to the whole, get grades, question later minset. Ugh, those days. PS: I'm feeling quite privileged right now cause the whole accent system is quite 1:1 between Italian and Latin haha, it's still cool to spot a few differences.
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The camera work is smooth as hell. It makes for a polished video.
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Nice video! I can finally read words with enclitics (-que, -ne,...) correctly. Many textbooks just talk about the penultimate rule itself and ignore this important exception.
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It is amazing how stable that accent has been. Modern Romance languages don't have this neat pattern anymore, due to losing vowel length and generally losing sounds, but the accent has by and large stayed in the same place for any given word
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Luke is looking so suave in that sweater, teaching us about history and language like a cool history professor.
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Could you next cover the stress rules of Greek? I would find it amazingly helpful in taking up the language!
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Thank you for covering this subject Luke! In the past couple months I’ve found that stress rules are actually very important for correct translation as well as pronunciation.
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I absolutely love this channel and the content. It always makes my day better, and then Luke's reaction to the cat at the end somehow made it even more so.
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I love your content. I’ m going to study classic philolgy at university and your videos have encouraged me to become a fluent latin and ancient greek speaker.Un saludo desde Valencia, España.
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I feel like you could teach me the most complicated thing ever, and I'd understand it immediately. (Not saying the penultimate stress rule is complicated, but your explanation is on point.)
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Thanks Luke! I just started on LLPSI and I'm immeasurably engaged. I started reading aloud so I would know the words' sound, and now with some practice, I will do it with competence.
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I found this very helpful and very easy to understand. I have watched the same tutorial from Latin tutorial, but I was a bit confused, but after watching your video, I have finally understood about 90%. Thank you for your effort, because of you that I have inloved with Latin.
