Basics of Latin - A Guide to the Latin Language: Alphabet, Pronunciation, and More - Derek Cooper
2024 ж. 15 Мам.
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Learn the Latin alphabet, how it’s different from English, and the basics of Latin pronunciation.
This video is the first in The Basics of Latin series, which will introduce you to Latin grammar and teach you how to read and translate Latin texts.
00:00 - Welcome and Overview
01:42 - The Alphabet
04:28 - Classical, Ecclesiastical, and National Pronunciation
09:39 - Vowels
10:59 - Diphthongs
11:49 - Consonants
13:30 - Accents
16:42 - Wrap-up and summary
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The classical prononciation is incredibly artistic ✨
First 10 minutes studying and I have and advice for anyone trying to learn latin. If your natural language is Spanish, French or Italian, stick with natural pronunciation. If you speak English, stay away from natural and learn the "correct" pronunciation, and then after you know how to speak Latin, learning any other of the three mentioned languages will be easy pease for you to learn or even speak (I speak natural Castillian/Spanish and fluent English).
Latin flows naturally for a slav. :) truły that is natural. For some reason
Salvēte, ō frātrēs in linguā Latīnā, ex Hiberniā! Greetings from Ireland.
Hi to You from bro in Latin from Poland. :D If not Esperanto, Latin should be universal language. Fck eng with that mind blowing tenses. 30 years and i still can't get a grip of it.
@@cathulhu3772 Esperanto is based heavily on Latin. I think that the word ‘Esperanto’ comes ultimately-via the Spanish word: ‘Esperanza’-from the Latin word: ‘spēs’, which means: ‘hope’.
When I first started studying Latin in my Freshman year of High School in 1964, my teacher told the class that Latin is the language of the educated an sophisticated. As I have grown old, I really believe it. Studying Latin gave us wide experience of language, history, early science and politics. When I got to college and studied Latin we read philosophical works in the original.
"Oo, that was scary" 🤣 I needed that half way through
This was extremely helpful. Looking forward to seeing more videos!
Very helpful and well-presented. Thank you!
Great job! Clear concise and easy to listen to! Well done!
Ive been waiting a very long time for this sort of content, thank you so much for this video. You've inspired me to finally take the plunge into Latin.
I've always been interested in leanring latin; thanks for this easy-to-understand video!
Thank you for your wonderful lecture. It's very helpful for me to learn Latin. Hope more videos would be provided.
Some people are just born to teach. Well done 👏
OK: this is... wonderful. :) My son is learning Latin, and I want to support his learning and his practice as much as possible. I'm *already* hooked from this video. Thank you, Derek! :)
Amazingly explained, well done👍
This lesson is very enjoyable.
Your way to educate latin language is very effective.. Goo job
The best explanation of Latin stress I've ever heard, thank you!
Great. It's very clear. Thank you so much. I wonder if you have any other videos on Latin grammar, which I will love to learn.
Great video . Thank you!
English does not come from Latin, but after the Norman conquest its vocabulary and structure was brutally modified. In a BBC report, the University of Oxford states the following: the English language is made up of this way: Vocabulary: 60% Latin, and only 28% Anglo-Saxon; grammar: 48% Anglo-Saxon structure, 39% Latin structure; the rest of the grammar structure comes from Celtic and Greek. For this reason philologists consider English a Hybrid, saying that English is a hybrid is the right thing to do.
60% Latin sounds a lot like that’s where most of the language comes from to me.
@@caimccray7 english is a germanic language. It may have 60 percent of its vocabulary as latin but the most common words you will hear or use are germanic.
I may not be my father but i came from my father...
@@caimccray7 in addition to what Eubrowarriormonk above said, in that most daily use english words have germanic roots, you have to consider the importance of words roots vs grammer roots. If a word comes from Latin it is a different with extra sounds and letters. Further english has a shit ton of words that even native speakers don't know.
poor Germans their contribution to Western civilization is practically nil
Great video! Very helpful
I appreciate your time and effort. thank you and god bless.
I've always just wanted to know basics... Nice job man!
This is counterproductive. I have zero knowledge of gramma in both my own and eng language and yet i can communicate in both. Latin is very natural for Poles. It just flows naturally - Korean and Japanese is also without a sweat for some reason.
I’ve been reading Colleen McCullogh’s First Man in Rome series of books, and the pronunciation of the Roman names has brought me here.
Ill give this a shot. Thanks for the guidance
I studied Latin for 2 years in High School long, long ago, and so definitely prefer the classical pronunciation… Thanks for sharing this knowledge… Speak on…
Excellent!
Salve Professor!
Latin in cowboy boots. Nailed it!
A diphthong is a Greek word which means two sounds (δύο φθόγγοι). How the sounds of two vowels next to each other combine.
@evangelosgeronicolas2385 Thank you. The way the instructor presented it was sensational and unnecessary.
The lesson is good
Gracious greetings from your brother in Christ all the way from Bulawayo Zimbabwe 🙇🏿♂️
Thanks a lot
07:58: "Now, this one's gonna hurt" Yes, it's been hurting for about three decades now, thank God you don't sound like that the rest of the time.
Sir please you a very good teacher you are the language teacher I never had but please the other sessions do you have to pay for it
There is also the question of musical pronunciation, as per the huge amount of latin texts. I think it's ecclesiastical.
CLASSICAL,
Your vice & latin english very good & fine .I liked . Thanks ,dr.k.l,sharma .from,india .
Pretty good.
11:51 No they are not, with all due respect. C, T and P are pronounced as they are in Romance languages such as Spanish or Italian, without aspiration. R is trilled when initial, doubled RR or even final and otherwise tapped. Q is pronounced like C, without aspiration, before U/V like in modern Italian "quando". L is pronounced doubled when geminated (LL), light before and after i and e and a, dark (velar) before consonants and after back vowels (o and u). S may or may not be retracted (apicoalveolar), as in European Spanish or Greek, and was definitely the common realization of this phoneme given it's been preserved even in minor Romance languages like Sardinian or Catalan. See Luke Ranieri's channels for this.
Tks
I should be going to bed but instead, I've realized that I have been learning Latin for a year and still don't actually know the rules of the grammar or the alphabet(or I don't have it memorized) so I'm now watching this video. - the dark academic life, am I right?
As in dark outside because it’s past your bedtime ;)
Pulchre doces de pronuntiatione, gratias tibi ago
As a linguist and as a teacher, I prefer to use Italian pronunciation (ecclesiastical). First of all, Classical pronunciation is theoretical and nobody speaks like that today, maybe not even in the past. Second, Italian pronunciation is simpler and it gives our students an added bonus: they are also learning Italian, a huge living language.
But you lose so much of the poetry and feeling.
Simple does not equal better. The classical pronunciation has its rewards.
ecclesiastical pronuanciation is the mark of a cult. You are pertaining in CULT activities when using ecclesiastical pronunciation.
Hey, how I can get a classroom with u? About Latin
As a linguist, do you know where the Latin language comes from?
I would recommend reading a Latin breviary or missal, instead of a Latin bible. The breviary and missal will always have the accent marks as needed, the bible almost never.
In a word that receives the addition of an appendage, enclitic, such as '-ne', '-ue', and '-que', the stress falls on the syllable of the word which preceeds the enclitic, e.g., (could not find an 'i with both a macron and an acute accent so an italicized letter will have to do)
Thank you so much I'm trying to understand and learn Latin a little bit and that was awesome Latin and cowboy boots I'm from America maybe y'all ought to try hillbilly Latin
Do the videos complement and expound on the book or are they mostly just the book audibly?
Thank you as an English-speaker, that you pronunciate the letters the right way. Everytime I get goosebumps when Englishspeakers tries to speak foreign languages.
I am Italian and I studied latin in high school. We were taught the pronunciation you call ecclesiastic. I think it is because this pronunciation is closer in time to us as the Latin language was practiced not only by the clergy but also by all Italian intellectuals up to the end of the seventeenth century but even beyond all our authors of those eras produced texts both in Latin and in the vernacular languages first and then in Italian. The pronunciation was the same as the clergy so our Latin is that. Latin for us Italians is not a foreign language and has never completely died. I think that being a language that has been spoken as a native language by many peoples for many centuries, there have been many regional and temporal differences. If you want to be picky, you should pronounce Cicero differently from Dante Alighieri but all in all it is better to make a choice and use the most common pronunciation, after all a language is used to understand each other.
This is a great intro. Can you explain why the “I” in Aquinas, is pronounced “ah-KWY-niss” and not “AH-kwin-oose” or “ah-KWEEN-oose”? Is it because it’s Ecclesiastical?
1:50 3:36 7:06 7:30 11:31 11:55 12:35 13:40 14:04 14:50
Ironically, diphthongus comes from ancient Greek and then late Latin. Means "having two sounds." Di (double) phthongus (sound/voice). Yes, I Googled it ;) Actually it's not a new word for me because we learn about it in Speech Pathology (my career track).
I happened upon a similar origin account while studying from John D. Scwandt's Greek Grammar: an Introduction to Biblcal Greek. He writes, "The term 'dipthong' comes from δυ- ("two") and φθoγγ -("sound")".
You said the letters K, Y & Z don't appear very often in Latin; but though K & Z were shown in the alphabet, Y wasn't!
I'm curious- which pronunciation is best suited for medical Latin? Thanks!
I would also like to know if someone would please answer😭
I’d go with your regional accent.
Where would I find the next lesson!?
Shriya Tiwari I'd recommend the book Getting Started with Latin by William E. Linney. In my opinion this is the best Latin learning book for beginners. I've used the book and it's my favourite Latin book for beginners. I'd just say give it a try.
Me a spanish speaker watching this: I can not shake this feeling of deja vu...
the names you said they sound strange come from the acient greek
Flattery will get you everywhere.
The thing that always frustrates me is what if you can’t roll your r In the language that you need to or you just screwed
Latin from 3rd to 12th grade, with two years of Greek.
CLASSICAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, NATIONAL PRONCIATION////
I really like latin, is not that hard for me because Im Cuban so I speak Spanish XD and some word are similar to latin but not the same, those words are called ( cultismo ) in Spanish when you are referring to a word that is similar but not the same and ( patrimonial ) is when the word changes like fabulare=fablar( castellano medieval )=hablar (castellano actual ) for example xdd
I so want to visit Cuba but I live so far away, Australia.
Hi, American here. I always wanted to learn a non-white language, and I thought one of the Hispanics languages would be an excellent start. I heard Latin is like Hispanic? Will people in the Mexicos like Argentina understand me?
Spanish is a white language.
Hi
I know that Father in Latin is Pater. But, when it annexed to the name of a priest, say Fr Peter, how do we translate it?
I love seeing English speakers who know short and long in Latin simply means the duration of the sound and not a different sound completely like short and long in English like "feet" and "fit"
Ecclesiastical Latin all the way
English is a completely Germanic language. It's not a creole or a hybrid language. The fact that much of its vocabulary comes from French or Latin doesn't change that in the least. Similarly most of the vocabulary of the Albanian language comes from Latin. That doesn't make Albanian a Romance language. Most of Urdu vocabulary comes from Persian. That doesn't make Urdu a Persian language.
Salve Grumio Salve landlord
Why are you pronouncing 'erat' like 'eret' with the final 'a' sounding like an 'e' as in 'bet'?
"Diphthong" comes from Greek it means two sounds "Δίφθογγος"= Δύο φθόγγους.
Wündebar! Wait I did that wrong
WOW, I want to learn!!! Funny and Horrible are AMERICANS, you did that perfectly. Hey try South Boston on top . CARRRS, BARRRR, car, bar, emphisis on the R a Hard R? I guess. The way bach beginning in learning strait up nouns and pronouns stuff like that. I do agree the eccleatic sounded Italian. shrugging but hearing the difference for me a DISLEXLTIC and weorse hard of hearing. I used to have a good memory about 60 years ago.
Smart sophisticated AND savvy? 😏
no uppercase U in latin
I wanted to scream when he spoke Latin like English
Most Filipino wizards use Latin words
Why does he pronounce "erat" as "eret"?
Why did I randomly want to learn Latin lmao
i am supposed to sleep already. good lesson to sleep goodnight my ass
Heheh guys I just learned PIG LATIN
W, K, Y, AND ZEE////
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How to pronounce 'antepenultimate': kzhead.info/sun/ZJqPY7Jpo2aBn3A/bejne.html
My American Accent/////
Latin in cowboy boots lol 🇺🇲
(Latin) Jesus venit cito. Nibiru et planetae post Solem veniunt. Accipe imaginem solis cum camera telephonica. Nibiru similis est soli, et planeta ruber, planeta alba, planeta super-magnus ruber, et planeta super- magnus orbis figuratus a tergo solis esse dicitur. Nunc homines videbunt hic et illic magnam planetam albam natantem sicut nubes, duos soles, planeta rubra praegrandes sub ortu et occasu solis, et metallum quod spectat instar orbis. Videbis ricinum (griseum, argenteum) in candido caelo volitare tellurem, purpureum caelum videbis, et 24K auro puro in caelo cadentem lucem coloratam videbis. Planetae albae sunt valde magnae et apparent sicut colores iris micantes, et maxime apparent in caelo orientali cum sol oritur. Deus ostendit mihi visionem, quod si tabulam celi accipias, planetas videbis, et planetae appropinquant et appropinquant, et die clarius fiunt.
cōgitāre not cogitāre
V SOUNDED LIKE V IN ENGLISH, SOUNDS LIKE ITALIAN,
Latin bible/////
Latin did not have k! I do not know what he's talking about
It did. Just wasn't a common letter, and was considered redundant by Roman historians as it was homopohonous with C, which eventually replaced it
Why learned Latin? It teaches you to think differently, etc.
A long practice with an entirely tonal language has taught me that the theory about tones or long vowels is very different from real life. I simply don't believe anybody knows how long vowels were pronounced in every day life or on stage or in the Senate. Just listen to Luke Ranieri's akward Latin to be convinced.
...I haven't even started and I've already given up
Might as well just learn Italian if you're gonna go ecclesiastical
Stay still you’re making me dizzy
Latin, like English was Stolen from other Lands...the Aramayic that was Not dragon tongue is Modern English with the Vowels and letters changed...the sounds; the Same. Rome did This as they did with the Arkadian Language and called it Latin. History told fowl by Losers of wars turned religious faction to wave a flag and pass lies of Those who conquered them...Not a Spartan but the King of Aramaya, known as DrácûL ... demasculated as Dracula. Santana the Conquerer, Reconscripted as Satana and Satan so that they could falsely claim My Kingdoms. -Abéràk SamUéL Lï Santana DrácûL (Emperor of Solace[Earth as its dubbed by the unruly)
Why bother learning to pronounce a language which is never used to speak?
Studying and reading historical figures and philosophers. It is also a great way to make learning all the other Romance languages such as French and Italian a lot easier-there are many reasons.
I am a law student although it's not required, learning latin helps for deep understanding.
Latin mass 🤔