Latin Pronunciation: Calabrese System for Classical Latin | Classical Latin Pronunciation Guide

This roman citizen really fluent in english.

It took me 15min into the video to realize that Calabrese is because of the author's name and not because it comes from Calabria 🤦‍♂️

Bait for italians: every italian will come here thinking that citizens of Calabria speak the true latin

I absolutely love his energy. He's the the kind of teacher I would want in school.

It's really weird when you speak English, I got used to hearing you speaking Latin all the time. Hahae!

I'm italian and I feel so honoured to be Italian when this guy talks about this nation and its language and its ancestors. For real. This channel is incredibly good and I wish it was much more known

The italian accent was perfect 😂😂👍🏼❤️

Italian speaking english impression: - Start: literal super Mario stereotype - After 5 seconds: so accurate it hurts knowing at one point I did speak like that

I was taught Latin at the University of Chicago by a Texan, who used completely unmodified Texan vowels. UGH!!! At the University of Wisconsin, my major professor studied Latin in Belgium. His Latin was not only very Italian sounding, but also extremely natural.

That Italian impression was on point, the way they struggle to say our weird vowel sounds.

Professors at my university sometimes ''correct'' me when they think I pronounce Latin words the wrong way. After that, I usually politely say ''thank you'' and explain to them that I used the Classical pronunciation, the way Cicero did. :-)

I'm from Sardinia and I always struggle with è and é, ò and ó in Italian. Phonetics lessons at Uni were so funny at first, couldn't get one right. 😂 Of course my friends from the rest of Italy make fun of me for the way I use vowels and my accent, but hey, I speak like Cicero!

I love your passion for the truth, as well as your humility to realize that there's no such thing as "wrong" and "right" language. Very well presented, sir! I am studying Latin because of you

As a Calabrese i thought "what the hell why didn't I know that?", but then I understood

This explains a lot. (Including how you seem so fluent in classical Latin!) I studied Latin in junior high & high school, and I remember well when our Latin teacher, John Zidik (who published his own learning-Latin book), came back from a conference all excited about the latest theory of classical pronunciation. That's when I learned to use short-i (which I remember more than short-u) in place of the Italianate pronunciation we were learning up till then. Now that I look up the original publication date of "Vox Latina," it turns out to be 1965: two years before my high-school graduation, while I was in the middle of learning Latin. In the spirit of "everything you know is wrong," I'm thoroughly enjoying this.

34 catalans really hated their language being called "minor".

I think its great how you explain that no pronunciation is inherently "better" than any other - I prefer classical pronunciation but ecclesiastical is beautiful to listen to!

What’s interesting about Sardinian, is that while it is the most unchanged from Vulgar Latin and the most conservative Romance language, back during the time of the Roman Empire the Latin spoken on Sardinia was a different dialect to the more standard form so it’s a conservative continuation of something that was actually quite different from standard Classical Latin Sardinia was settled by bronze age farmers from what’s now turkey who spoke an ancient pre indo European language and the Latin they used in classical times had a large sub strate of vocabulary from their ancient pre indo European language which other forms of Latin don’t have

After being away from Latin for many years and now coming back to it , I have come to a conclusion about the benefits of studying Latin aside from the sheer pleasure of learning and imagining the ancient world through Roman eyes and ears (which is enough, really). If one agrees that writing is actually a form of thinking then studying the way the Romans wrote is in fact studying how they think. Therefore, the study of Latin is the study of the thought process, how thoughts are ordered and ideas developed. This might be said of any language except that the Latin "plan" as I think Hoyos described it, is so different from that of modern languages, the student is forced to really probe deeply into language construction and the relationships between words and ideas. This brings a whole new dimension to one's ability to analyse and make sense of things. That's my two cents anyway.

Bravo, Luke! Fascinating! I was an exchange student in Argentina (years ago) and acquired Spanish and some Italian. I returned to the US and studied them a bit more to fill in gaps, but also picked up some Portuguese and French. I chucked it all out the window for about 18 years in Japan and when I came home (back to English) all the Latin languages feel like comfortable well worn PJs. I don't know how to explain it. I've never studied Latin, but I get it. Perhaps not every word, but it's fun to listen to! And I love your Italian accent. Es perfecto!!!