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[@Nasengold]

For people wondering about the "c-sound": There was actually a latin dude back then who created a literate school and proclaimed to change the hard c and make it soft in some cases. Before it was ALWAYS hard. Well documented in latin scripts. So the clasical hard c-sound is actually a fact. It also explains why romance languages today don't understand it. It was simply changed troughout roman times. Sardinians still pronounce it hard to this day.

[@jamburga321]

"There was actually a latin dude back then who created a literate school and proclaimed to change the hard c and make it soft in some cases. " Really that's interestign?

[@linguaphile9415]

You are still pronouncing the "e" the english way. And the vowel quality is often strangely english.

[@metatronyt]

Hello, I am Italian, It was a very good lesson but I think you got the ecclesiastical pronunciation of the word Caesar wrong, the classical is indeed as you say, but in minute 7:00 you say that the ecclesiastical latin would read "cheesar" but no as far as I know "ae" is read like the English sound for the colour "red" so it's cEsar non cheesar", the "e" sound is like in the word "regina" or the English word "set" not like the English word "English", you got it right with caelum, you need to be careful with that tendency or students might get confused.

[@metatronyt]

oh and also why "ueeni" for "veni", shouldn't the "e" be pronounced like the e in red here too? so ok with the "v" becoming ueni but I would still say "ueni uidi uiki" not "ueeni uidi uiki" like you say O.O

[@metatronyt]

A part from that good lesson prof :) Grazie

[@bigbeddie]

Metatron yes, not ee by any stretch of the imagination.....

[@Tenryuu19]

Also, Julius Caesar wasn't a Roman Emperor

[@pentuplove6542]

@@Tenryuu19 oh we got an edit, how many more edits? Julius Ceasar was Dictator of Rome.

[@zBlacksad]

What you're speaking here is best described as American Latin. Sorry :/

[@etiennedegaulle3817]

I'm American and his pronunciation burns my ears. He'd be better off learning modern Italian and going with that pronunciation.

[@FlourescentPotato]

@Mike Daniels it's true though.

[@fraternitas5117]

this video should honestly be deleted

[@MrViki60]

@Mike Daniels stfu dumbass

[@Sinsta13]

@ Janick: "veni, vidi, vici" = ['we:.ni, 'wi:.di, 'wi:.ki] = /wēni, wīdi, wīki/ -classical pronunciation-

[@foaly8]

somehow I doubt the romans were pronouncing the 'r' the american way..

[@dylanryan3432]

why?

[@the-bruh.cum5]

@@dylanryan3432 well look at the romances languages none of them have the american R even frickin old english had the R trill so yeah

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Exactly. Roman R's were pronounced with a trill or an alveolar tap, like in Spanish.

[@boneyboban1945]

Brilliant. Explained everything in pronunciation. Hats off to you Sir.

[@JayDillon-mm6yv]

"e" is pronounced "eh" not "ee" in Veni "i" is pronounced "ee" not "aye" in Vidi

[@mirkosala919]

Jay Dillon veni, vidi, vici it is said how it is written

[@nomore9004]

Vēni, Vidī, Vīci

[@jonathanvalk726]

@@mirkosala919 no, veni is pronounced like: wehni, not wini.

[@richardbulva]

@@jonathanvalk726 no. veni is pronounced veni. not wehni or wini.

[@mirefleurs]

Yes. Except that "Veni" is not pronounced "wini" like you said Dwane, but "Wéni". A "e" is a "e"... the english confuses the sounds, but latin languages never.

[@Olo-h6t2m]

You are right

[@SloveintzWend]

Anglophones have difficulties when pronouncing vowels when learning foreign languages. That's due to their "Great Vowel Shift" that shaped modern English language in early modern times. Some vowels shifted some became diphthongs. Its very hard to "unlearn" this.

[@davidmusicmaker]

And the incessant dipthonging!

[@francesca7093]

You were very helpful. Most people are afraid of Latin. You made it interesting and relaxing. You're a great teacher. Thank you. PS. Veni is pronounced "E=egg" Veni. It's very hard for American speaking people to pronounce Latin. AEIOU are pronounced differently in English. In Italian I'm able to understand the sound. In English I see where the problems are in the pronunciations.

[@jakobpfeil4243]

no it is not. i think in english [e] does not exist

[@TG-oq2jx]

I like how everybody in the commenta suddenly is a Latin teacher

[@sharvjoshi6304]

Actually 'G' wasn't a letter in Roman Latin it was crated in medieval Europe by adding a tail of 'j' to 'C'

[@pite9]

Note that the german word for emperor is Kaiser, a word that without a doubt was introduced to the germans by the romans. The romans most definately pronounced Caesar as a K-word. We know this because if it was a S-word, then the germans would have written it with a S, as Saiser.

[@giampierover7832]

are you sure? classic latin pronunciation is not credible. www.forumarcheologia.it/antica-roma/pronuncia-della-lingua-latina-t39.html

[@fdsbernardo]

giampiero ver I am Portuguese and it is very straight foward for us to read latin. But this classical pronouciation is just wrong. I don't have a doubt about it.Beside that there are actualy many things about the correct pronounciation tant i don't see discussed anywhere. I even truly believe as a native speaker of a lalin language that Lex and Rex is supposed to be read (lays) and (Rays). Like the words still used today in italy portugal and spain. This claasical reconstructing team didn't have a clue about it.

[@rentaghostokish5628]

Fernando Bernardo Nonsense. Just coz you are portuguese doesn't give you any natural advantage in latin. Stick to losing at soccer and ex-colonies.

[@weedmastersr]

Fernando Bernardo Hahah, funny. I'm originally Romanian, so also a native speaker of a Latin Language, and we too pronounce Lex and Rex just as they're written.

[@JosephYanchar]

Fernando Bernardo These pronunciations of 'lex' and 'rex' are because your language has been vulgarized from the original Classical Latin. Classical reconstruction is much more complicated than just referring to a single Romance language, yo.

[@junemelo9929]

Thank you Dwane. I really didnt know about classical. I often heard latin in catholic rituals and ceremonies. This is new to me. Thank you again.

[@helgedell]

Ended up here by coincidence, following a discussion about how to pronounce "Caesar". You're coming through as a great teacher, keeping the ancient materiel fresh. Well done! :)

[@bilbohob7179]

Sure he pronounce it wrongly.

[@eurech]

@@bilbohob7179 You're utterly ignorant. There are several ways to pronounce Latin.

[@animox9038]

The english accent in his Latin is a bit annoying

[@Chairman_LmaoZedong]

English has completely ruined original Latin pronunciation.

[@animox9038]

@@Chairman_LmaoZedong true

[@RahulKumar-ju3ym]

Annoyance is good sign that means u r immersed 😊language of the god's...latin

[@peterszeug308]

Actually, what I have learned, is that classical latin around 0 AD was pronounced much more french, that vowels before nf and ns were nasals and the ns were dropped, and that m at the end of words were also dropped and the previous vowel was nasalized. And also that the s was more pronounced like in portuguese.

[@abelpalmer552]

You are correct, however the basic rules as stated here by him still hold.

[@steelandbanjo]

Which dinosaur can jump higher than a house? None of them- dinosaurs are all dead.

[@lindamiranda2877]

I am learning Latin because I want to understand Spanish better and to help me in pronouncing some of the big Law words, since I am a Political Science major and I come across a lot of words that are Latin.

[@johnbenson4927]

Linda Miranda My friend, if you want to learn Spanish then start learning Spanish, not Latin. Latin is far more complex.

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Beware! Except for a few who know better, we USAmericans pronounce Latin almost completely wrong! For example I've heard a US Supreme Court justice pronounce certiorari as "sir-shir-ree" 🤢

[@debanjandutta1591]

Excellent sir, I've watched your video class for the first time and very much eager to learn The Latin from basics, you have detailed in comparison with English words. It's clear how Latin syllable is different from English. I've watched many other videos but could not clear it before. Thank you sir, once again. Greetings from India.

[@duvar3176]

Basically, classical is read in Spanish and church Latin is read in Italian 😂😂

[@gianfrancow2850]

if you want to listen the best latin pronuntiation on the planet just search youtube for this italian professor.. luigi miraglia

[@subdread9987]

holy crap. so that's why ceaser's legion pronounces ceaser differently.

[@barbthornell4786]

But the way his videos/instructions are organized, these are the most easily RETAINABLE lessons I've ever seen.

[@osmondgo8362]

It's like Woody Harrelson but sober.

[@giampierover7832]

Il suono della V è di derivazione Etrusca (era rappresentato da F rivolta a sinistra) Valerius si legge Valerius e non Ualerius (Oualerios come traslittera Polibio). Vedi Nigidio Figulo. La pronuncia "classica" è un cotinuum di errori.

[@proarte4081]

+giampiero ver La pronuncia cosiddetta "classica" è un'enorme mistificazione....già il fatto che i suoi inventori l'abbiano definita "classica" la dice lunga su un certo grado di ideologica presunzione. Al massimo potrebbe essere definita "arcaica", o pronuncia delle origini, più o meno come si parlava ai tempi della codificazione dell'alfabeto latino...cioè nel VII secolo Avanti Cristo...il ché dice poco o nulla su come la gente comune pronunciasse il latino 700 anni dopo...nell'era classica, ai tempi di Cicerone e Giulio Cesare.

[@JamesMartinelli-jr9mh]

E' un imbroglio in inglese. Senz'altro dopo secoli le parole latine in inglese hanno una pronuncia 'nativa'. Poi, per la musica si usa la pronuncia ecclesiastica. Poi, 'recentemente' arriva la pronuncia restituita: 'restored classical pronunciation'.

[@Philoglossos]

Why are you pronouncing it with an anglophone "R"?

[@metatronyt]

Probably because he is American and can't roll his R. But I agree that he should say that the "r" should be rolled like in modern Italian or Spanish. If he says that then I woudln't have a problem with his anglophone "r" as some people just can't get the rolling of the "r", but yes it is important to specify.

[@Philoglossos]

Metatron Ciao! Come va? xD

[@metatronyt]

Bathrobe Samurai ahaha bene grazie :D e tu? :)

[@Philoglossos]

Metatron Benissimo! xD Tornerò in italia tra meno di tre mesi, quindi sto provando a praticare l'italiano molto xD. Com'è la tua scuola?

[@metatronyt]

tutto bene a scuola grazie ^_^ ecco! Infatti per un attimo mi sono chiesto: "ma Bathrobe Samurai era italiano?!" ahah complimenti per il tuo italiano. Dove andrai in Italia? In quale città?

[@braschigiovanniangelo5559]

I'm from Rome and latin here is kept only by some small traditional catholic churchs during the service. Latin pronunciation is different from yours. Yours look more an Anglo-Saxon pronounciation!

[@Ivansthename]

It’s tough, he has a bad accent and messes up sometimes. Still he probably know lots.

[@keegster7167]

+Ivansthename Don't trust him just because he's an expert. He's no expert when it comes to pronunciation. Read Vox Latina, or any other good Latin pronunciation guide (made by linguists though, Latinists don't care much about pronunciation and it shows), even a small amount, and you'll see that he got his vowels and consonants both very wrong.

[@stonker_the_isophile]

Hello

[@calcinatoir]

I find it helps to use the actual dipthong Æ to remember that it is a long A (aie) sound rather than a short A (ah) sound. IN PRINCIPIO CREAVIT DEVS CÆLUM ET TERRAM for example. (Classical does not employ U. a V is always a U such as in SALVE "Saloo'eh" or VICI "Ueekee")

[@iraf.official]

2022.08.30. 20:30

[@5Dale65]

In Europe, in Poland at least, they teach even other pronunciation called "traditional". "Ae" is pronunciated as short "e". "C" is "ts" before e, i, ae, y. Yes it's "ts" sound, not "ch" like in Italian. So "caelum" would be "tselum" with "ts" and short "e". The "g" however is always hard. "V" is always "v", never "w". There are some other strange oddities however. "Qui" is "kvi", "quod" is "kvod" and "sua" is "sva". "Ti" like in "actio" is "-tsio", thus "aktsio". Have anyone ever encountered such pronunciation? Don't know if it is isolated to Poland and teaching Latin here, it might be because many Latin words in Polish are pronunciated similiar, like "akcja" (action) is "aktsia", "wino" (wine) is "vino" (despite it's written with "w"), "perswazja" (persuasion) - "persvazya".

[@BTL6666]

I think the C pronounced as a TS is very much influenced by the Slavic pronunciation of the letter C...For ex , in Romania, when we learn Latin C is C ( the way you pronounce the letter K in Polish, and not TS)...and ae is pronounced more likely like E...so Caelum would be Celum( fonetically Chelum)...like you say it in Italian. But in the end which language is closer to Latin as pronunciation? Polish or Italian and Romanian?...V is V...qui ..is like cvi( kvi in polish and not tsvi)...sua will be sua and not sva...u will be pronounced as v only in the qui,quo,quod,,,like cvi,cvo,cvod...action will be said like actsio...I think that Slavic pronunciation of some letters influenced a lot the way you are thought Latin there in Poland!///and on top of that is the Classic Latin :))) So what you say, the way you are thought in schools might be in part of Europe( Poland and other Slavic countries) and not in all Europe...It'll be interesting for example to know how are they thought in Italy or France or Spain to pronunciate the Latin language?! So different countries, different costumes...and also very interesting in the same time!!!

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

Page 163 calumet = n the peace pipe [C18: from Canad. F, from F: straw, from LL calamellus a little reed, from L: CALAMUS]

[@falgo666]

Wow, I have learned more handy things from this 7 minute video than from 3 years of studying university chemistry.

[@christinezaslavsky647]

Thank God for this channel! My 12-yr-old son likes Dwane’s style. His videos help us with Henle 1. Having said this, I will address all these critical commentators: Type in latintutor channel to hear gorgeous pronunciation as well as more advanced teaching. 😊

[@ptrblz]

Thanks for the video a great, simple and understandable explanation.

[@visuallatin]

You are welcome!

[@dragonchild36]

Great video. Thank you! I'm currently learning Latin on Duolingo and came across your channel. This clarifies a lot. Followed...lol.

[@marija5rovic]

This is all wrong! He is pronouncing Veni vidi Vici WRONG!!!

[@mr.steady5498]

I'm here to learn more but I feel like I've lost more lol

[@SloveintzWend]

It is, but since V was accepted in the alphabet U represents U.

[@adamdickson1404]

Thanks for this simple and easy to understand explanation - fascinating!

[@rogeriochamorro1146]

As a native speaker of a Romance Language, that pronunciation is far from the Latin sounds. It's so American.

[@mea.histria]

Caesar, decem, centum are pronounced with a "ch" in the Latin language because if not then it would be next words in a modern Italian pronounced with a "k" (e.g. Cesare, Cicerone, dieci, cento, celo, etc.), and what about many Italian surnames that are also pronounced with a "ch" (e.g. Lancia, Marcello, Luciani, Manzini, Carlucci, Ceccarelli, Cellario, Cecili, Colucci, Gucci, etc.).

[@Schlog1]

And AFAIK, Ss in classic Latin were never pronounced as 'z' before a vowel, like they are in English, Italian, etc. So 'Caesar' is actually 'kai-sar', not 'kai-zar'.

[@DaniellePasin]

uahauhauahauha thumbs up for the akward joke

[@philv2529]

in classical pronunciation you said "creavit" instead of "creawit"

[@senarajapaksha6366]

Dil upnar or preeth psrai

[@homersamson6170]

What is also helping me is using Google translator to hear the correct pronunciation of the words. And by using that, I hope to get a natural feel for how Latin should be pronounced.

[@Fritz_Haarmann]

Isn't that just the italian voice?

[@GreatMusicVideos]

veni was never pronounced like "vini" - what are you talking... you have no idea of classical latin..

[@keegster7167]

ikr. smh.

[@sebastiankwintal2828]

In classic latin rhere was v and u described the same way, f.e. „vvlgata” = „vulgata”, and c was sometimes k and sometimes s or c. So Julius Cezar /Yulious Csezzar/ and not /Kezzar/

[@antoniosavalgarcia02]

Caesar was actually pronounced /kaesar/

[@sebastiankwintal2828]

@@antoniosavalgarcia02 maybe /kaesar/ maybe /chaesar/ or maybe /csaesar/ the problem is: nobody knows it for sure today.

[@joslez7573]

​@@sebastiankwintal2828Si si sabe con seguridad: hay estudios filológicos al respecto. Ignorante.

[@AlessioGiandomenicoMameli]

I'm sorry, but I want to remarke that you pronounce the latin vowels as they were like the english vowels! that's very wrong! You have to read them as they are pronounced in Italian and in Spanish language.

[@Sinsta13]

im merely watching this because of the SUBSTANTIAL lack of interesting and FREE latin language resources. however, the video author seems incapable of pronouncing classical latin correctly. 1. roll your /r/'s 2. keep your vowels pure and clear 3. caesar is ['kai.sar] not ['kej.zø:] as in the vid. finally, i would like to state my lack of faith in the teacher due to his novice level mistakes. i shall stay here for a while though... and lol @ "kick-a-row"

[@keegster7167]

Yea, this pronunciation is the most atrocious that I've seen. Couldn't he have read Vox Latina at some point?! And although your pronunciation is very close, I'll just point out a couple things. It seems more likely (based on the spelling mostly but also it's evolution and the fact that Latin's sister languages spelt it differently) that was pronounced [ae̯] actually (though even though I marked the second one as nonsyllabic, they could have been the same length, but a a dipthong). And so it could be ['kae.sar]. Also, there is evidence, because of how Greek loanwords that began with /k/ were treated in colloquial Latin (they were loaned as /g/ in Latin), that the initial /k/ (maybe all /k/s?) could have been aspirated. So ['kʰae.sar] would also be correct.

[@saharvarona]

how do i pronounce Sine paenitentia vive,

[@alfazveersingh2924]

what is langauge.i indian

[@weedmastersr]

It's a good lesson. Although, it's Veni Vedi, Vici. All with a 'V'. V is indeed 'u' or 'oo' but only in some situations. **EDIT: After further research I must admit I was wrong. In classic Latin, V is indeed pronounced with the 'w' sound.

[@Artecus]

Hi Protector, please amend your comment. It is confusing my mother. I tell her, "No, he said he is mistaken. He knows it's `w'." But, she keeps pointing at your comment.

[@weedmastersr]

Arthur E. Michalak Done! I hope your mother believes you now.

[@Artecus]

Protector of the Republic Thanks, mate. I will show her and shout 'AHA'.

[@MrRXY11]

why is "vici" pronounced "viki" even though "c" is in front of "i" and should be pronounced like "ch", or is the "i" showing, that the word is in past simple and is irregular?

[@weedmastersr]

MrRXY11 To be honest, I'm not exactly sure. When I was a kid back in Romania and we were learning Latin back in school, we first learned our own vulgar pronunciation, which is just like you said, with the "ch" sound. Then we also learned about the pronunciation historians believe to be correct and it was with the 'k" sound instead of "ch". After lately doing more online research on the matter, I've found that nobody actually knows with certainty was the actual pronunciation was. The church pronounces Latin one way, Classic scholars another way, individual romance language speaking countries a different way, some historians have their own theories, and so on. I have to say I prefer the vulgarized pronunciation version I first learned (almost identical to how Italians pronounce Latin too) because it's the closest to my native language. So really, I'm not sure.

[@gianfrancow2850]

Shoudn't the vocal "E" be read like in the word "Emerald"??

[@BroadcastBro]

Yeah exactly

[@Auoric]

It depends wether or not it has a bar above it.

[@nonesuchone]

Most dinosaurs didn’t jump. Checkmate, professor-man.

[@jamein7164]

Wait I thought there was no j in the classical latin alphabet????

[@edwardfranks5215]

from below...as 10 sounds were heading to 7 or 5. and the letter a sounds of amica, amicae, amicae, amicam (no m pronounced) and amica ablative were reduced to one sound AH. By the way v was not a ww but an asperated vw as vwuh that became b in Spanish and Portuguese and Catalan.

[@JayDillon-mm6yv]

"ae" is pronounced "aye" not "ay"

[@AndreiPS]

Pot, meet kettle.

[@delta7819]

you are wrong with v... veni, vidi, vici. V is V not w.

[@dimensioncx8607]

That's something a lot of people pronounce incorrectly, it's actually with "W".

[@Artecus]

Dimension is right. 'V' in Latin is 'u' or 'oo' sound, and, when it fronts a word, is a 'Ue' or 'w'. Example: Gvlgari = `Goolgaree'. Vngartium = [w]oon'gartioom.

[@weedmastersr]

None of you are exactly correct.. I'm Romanian in origin and I grew up there. I've studied Latin for five years in school and one in college. Romanian is also the closest modern widely spoken language to the classic and vulgar Latin in terms of grammar and pronunciation. It's actually both. In certain instances, like those mentioned by Arthur is 'u' or 'oo' and in others, like the one mentioned by Tekla, it's 'v'. So, you're all right, or none, or whatever. So, in this particular instance it would be, Veni (with a V), Vedi, Vici. Literally translated in Romanian it's: Venii, Vazui, Invinsei.

[@Artecus]

Protector of the Republic Protector, isn't `Veni vidi vici' pronounced, in Classical Latin, `Weni widi wiki?'

[@weedmastersr]

Arthur E. Michalak Actually, after writing that comment today I've looked through some of my old notebooks. The pronunciation we were taught in Romanian was actually closer to the way vulgar Latin was spoken. Anyway, we were taught two theories. One was that the correct pronunciation is in most cases as written, where the second "restaurationist" one (is there such a word in English?) said that researchers have been trying to come as close as possible to the way Romans used to use it (classic Latin) and v is indeed pronounce 'u', 'oo'. So is u (of course). So, you were actually right. Apologies!

[@oliviacharlotte8185]

Can anyone who speaks Latin or knows it in depth, please help me? I would LOVE to know what ‘See the good’ is in Latin, in the sense of a wise saying that people and all should ‘see the good’ in the good and bad! Thank you☺️☺️

[@mynameismarvin]

Hi! :) I just watched your video. Very informative for beginners. I'm not sure if you made a continuation to this video but I think you missed some pronunciation points for Classical Latin and Ecclesiastical Latin. Like how "gn", "sc", "ti" change in Ecclesiastical, and how "h" is silent in Ecclesiastical.

[@dandelosangeles561]

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[@irvin295]

Isn't the R rolled?

[@ede_1]

Irvin Gomez Yes, it should be!

[@elliotvernon7971]

Latin grammarians from the classical period described the sound R as ‘the dog sound’, which suggests it was more gutteral like the modern French ‘r’ than the effeminate rolling of modern Italian.

[@tenienteramires4428]

It should be a tap, as in American English TT in the word "beTTer".

[@Kjalarrr]

@@elliotvernon7971 The French went out of their way to pronounce their r's that way. Latin would not have had that r. Lol

[@JamesMartinelli-jr9mh]

@@elliotvernon7971 Effeminate rolling of the Italians. So, is it also the 'effeminate' rolling of the Spaniards, the Romanians... as well ? Not to mention the Sicilians! Tu es cretinus magnus.

[@matteobasile584]

Why do you pronounce Regina correctly, meanwhile you say Veni with the sound of E like (E)at? You should pronounce Veni with the same sound of E like (E)xaxtly

[@JoyforChristJesus]

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[@inkstersco]

This video could benefit from a word or two on when to use each pronunciation e.g. doesn't medieval text usually use something like Ecclesiastical Latin. IOW in which dialects to use each pronunciation.

[@Aeux]

Thanks for the clarification.

[@sztamgast]

basically it is more/ less how western Slavs are spelling latin alphabet

[@troyvalle2695]

Your videos are great! I'm happy I found them here.

[@DINSDAY77]

Hi, I am done with my basic grammar classes which I did well on. Now I am in my Second semester of translation and what I translate always comes out as nonsense. My teacher goes way to fast as does not like to slow down at all and gives you no clue as to what she might pick for the exam after we have translated a book....I love Latin and put in the time but I feel like giving up. Like there is something wrong with me. Does this get better? What can I do this summer to focus in on making my reading comprehension better. ?

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Get bilingual books from the Loeb Classical Library in the Holyoke Building, Harvard Square in Cambridge Mass., outside of Boston. I'm sure they're also online.

[@cutecommie]

I don't care about Latin, I'm just here for the ASMR.

[@doofsdoofs]

Okay

[@Scuppetta1998IT]

6:07 in veni the "E" letter sounds like in regina not like the English one. Caesar sounds very different from how you pronunced. Great video anyway :)

[@laurencesiegel9362]

Yes, the way I learned Classical Latin from an eminent classicist born in 1915, Caesar is pronounced KY-SAHR (equal stress on the syllables), not Kaiser. Wenny widdy wicky. I call it prep school pronunciation.

[@dafo1648]

And in German pronounciation the c makes before the e, i, ae, y the ts sound., like "Tsitsero".

[@ksica]

i'm serbian and we pronounce it as 'ts' too eta: this is how we pronounce latin kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGPYmZmJhZegn5Y (yes, it's a song from carmina burana :))

[@magister.mortran]

It is still wrong. It is neither classical nor ecclesiastical, it is just wrong. It is tsh (ecclesiastical) or k (classical).

[@srunequester66]

I like how Caesar in Classical Latin pronounciation sounds a lot like Kaisar, as in the German king that used to rule Germany.

[@jackwright2495]

+srunequester66 Now you know where the German word came from! Mutate it some more and you get the Russian 'Tsar,' which earlier was spelled 'Czar' because the C in Slavic languages is often pronounced like a 'ts.'

[@BigBad-Wolf]

+Jack Wright Or simply like a c. A hard s.

[@laurencesiegel9362]

@@jackwright2495 It's still spelled czar when used in American politics. Energy czar, etc. Usually pronounced zar.

[@juliegonzalez9843]

Great video! Very interesting. Do you have handouts?

[@ingotak]

Well, and what about medieval pronounciation of Latin? It has many forms and depends on the area. For example central Europe (Germany, Austria, Czech republic, Slovak republic, Hungary, Poland). It is similar to the church Latin but quite different. :)

[@BTL6666]

I totally agree with what you say here...and also differently thought and expressed in the Latin descendent countries like Romania, France, Portugal, Italy, Spain...and on top of that is that the Classic/ Ecclesiastical Latin

[@abelpalmer552]

Guys -especially all the italians and native romance speakers- chill the f out, it was a good lesson. We know he didn't really try to put on his best accent, you don't need to lambast him with pejorative comments about how English speakers just have absolutely obscene pronunciations of Latin, especially because he got the essential elements right.

[@drattmixer]

Where are all the Rolling R’s??!!! Why does he just trow them away! They literally make the whole language sound as amazing as it is

[@Giorgosm14081948]

CE, CI, GE, GI sounded hard in classical times all right, but SLIGHTLY palatalized, THIS IS A LINGUISTIC RULE. The process of full palatalization took some centuries to complete and become the church Latin of today.

[@kimmoeskelinen597]

How do We know how classical Latin was pronouced?

[@MungareMike]

Never know that Woody Harrelson is so good in Latin!

[@josiahcole3186]

Caesers Latin, the v was pronounced w and c was always hard. So Caesar was actually pronounced 'Kaiser'

[@zomaarwat7481]

You forgot the "GN."

[@visuallatin]

+patrickfaas Ah. Thanks.

[@jakobpfeil4243]

in caeser i think the r would be rolled with the tip of the tongue like italians do

[@DansilSchroeder]

1:57 Ave, true to Caesar.

[@andresmora5192]

Latina, lingua antiqua roma est progenitor, ex linguis romanorum, lingua magis pulchra in mundo. !!!! ✋😁

[@upupina90]

That is some heavy american accent that you bring in your Latin

[@edwardmiessner6502]

Old Latin Iulius Caesar, pronounced like "Yule-yus Kai-tsar" as in the German Kaiser and the Russian Tsar.

[@keshantejiram5951]

The ClosedCaptioning at 3:22

[@a.g.styles3500]

The ci in ecclesiastical latin should sound as an s only if it comes after a consonant.

[@MayFlowerInAutum]

I enjoyed your lesson very much. I work with bacteria and is always a debate how to pronounce Escherichia coli, some people say "ch" is a k sound and some others pronounce it like sh. AT the same time, in English people say "kolai" and in Spanish "koli".

[@SloveintzWend]

Not really, it's only due to the time span(languages evolve) and social caste. Ecclesiastical Latin was spoken among clergy in middle ages up to now, but Classical among scribes, military and officials of Roman republic/empire. Common people spoke Vulgar Latin which gave rise to French, Spanish Italian....

[@bonjuvimartinez9810]

very helpful to my latin prayer esp in prononciaton...thank u so much

[@Cameron_J]

Dad dropped the mic at 1:07.

[@ppn194]

Classical Latin did not have letters G, J, U ... This guy is actual talking about English pronounciation mixing with others..

[@TheJere213]

Classical latin pronunciation seems to be pretty much same that in finnish.

[@tspark1071]

Great. One of the best lectures

[@pentuplove6542]

The German Kaiser is the same as Ceasar. It originates from Ceasar, same as the Russian Tsar.

[@kehaar3641]

Actually none of the dinosaurs can jump hinger than a house because they're all dead.

[@jakobpfeil4243]

the ae i don't know but i think its like hair or red(not the british way)

[@SDOV8]

Nicely presented. Thank you.

[@loganlion6314]

I’m just starting school in a new city. My mom asked me what I wanted to focus on as a new hobby. I told her I wanted to tackle the old Latin language. And to learn 1 new word a day. I found the translation for imagine. Which is meditati. But I can’t find anymore info on it other than imagination. I asked my teachers but the don’t know. Can anyone tell me if that is the Latin word for imagine? Thanks!