Basics of Latin - A Guide to the Latin Language: Alphabet, Pronunciation, and More - Derek Cooper

[@onetwo8950]

The classical prononciation is incredibly artistic ✨

[@michaelwhite9513]

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.

[@goGDOGod]

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).

[@cathulhu3772]

Latin flows naturally for a slav. :) truły that is natural. For some reason

[@astarothofhell4341]

@@cathulhu3772 If ur romaian it should also be "easier"

[@ciaran13786]

Salvēte, ō frātrēs in linguā Latīnā, ex Hiberniā! Greetings from Ireland.

[@cathulhu3772]

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.

[@ciaran13786]

@@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’.

[@theGothicTopic]

Some people are just born to teach. Well done 👏

[@PoleToPoleTravel]

"Oo, that was scary" 🤣 I needed that half way through

[@karanliu3913]

My very first Latin lesson! How lucky that I found you.

[@SharonMack-vv9nu]

I am sturying Latin because I am interested in reading the writings of the early Christians, in particular the writings of the Christian writer Tertullian. It is helpful to know the difference between types of Latin according to the materials you are planning on reading. I did not study Latin in high school, and since I am learning it in my old age, I find youtube lessons very helpful.

[@chrisbole8339]

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.

[@gregggibson3109]

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…

[@pastorstone5020]

This was extremely helpful. Looking forward to seeing more videos!

[@ethantanatsiwasesedza8305]

Gracious greetings from your brother in Christ all the way from Bulawayo Zimbabwe 🙇🏿‍♂️

[@georgebaccett9951]

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.

[@caimccray7]

60% Latin sounds a lot like that’s where most of the language comes from to me.

[@eurobrowarriormonk7182]

@@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.

[@is-ma-elditoro6100]

I may not be my father but i came from my father...

[@rohanofelvenpower5566]

@@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.

[@fabrizio.guidi64]

poor Germans their contribution to Western civilization is practically nil

[@evangelosgeronicolas2385]

A diphthong is a Greek word which means two sounds (δύο φθόγγοι). How the sounds of two vowels next to each other combine.

[@paulthomas281]

@evangelosgeronicolas2385 Thank you. The way the instructor presented it was sensational and unnecessary.

[@catherineabramson5460]

It took me 3 years to get through two years of Latin in middle school. Lol. Why am I even watching this? I have no idea. Our teacher used to fall asleep as we students started reading "All Gaul is divided into three parts" and lapsed into nursery rhymes. No wonder everyone hated his class!

[@anthonysanlucas6437]

So excited for our homeschool group to start Latin.

[@GabrielMeister]

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! :)

[@pheeble29]

I've always been interested in leanring latin; thanks for this easy-to-understand video!

[@cathulhu3772]

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.

[@joisea9509]

This lesson is very enjoyable.

[@syedsaeeduddin1236]

Your way to educate latin language is very effective.. Goo job

[@c.dlflor]

The best explanation of Latin stress I've ever heard, thank you!

[@lesleyparkin1340]

Great job! Clear concise and easy to listen to! Well done!

[@cd3694]

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.

[@lauradivittorio1014]

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.

[@chilledadvocate8502]

Latin in cowboy boots. Nailed it!

[@biakthang6009]

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.

[@fahimrezwankhair7344]

Very helpful and well-presented. Thank you!

[@DuarteMedia6ohduce]

Thank you.

[@asholegoogle985]

Ill give this a shot. Thanks for the guidance

[@dariusmelquiadez2050]

Great video . Thank you!

[@sbztube]

I appreciate your time and effort. thank you and god bless.

[@guadalupefreyre5900]

1:50 3:36 7:06 7:30 11:31 11:55 12:35 13:40 14:04 14:50

[@svo2098]

Thank you for your wonderful lecture. It's very helpful for me to learn Latin. Hope more videos would be provided.

[@Poiesis11]

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?

[@kentuckyburbon1777]

As in dark outside because it’s past your bedtime ;)

[@xiomarablanco6516]

Salve Professor!

[@naya239]

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

[@danborwick8779]

I've always just wanted to know basics... Nice job man!

[@thedudewhoasked7613]

Amazingly explained, well done👍

[@By_the_gods]

This guy is absolutely perfect.

[@edwinhidalgo1242]

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.

[@xeniamundi7514]

Simple does not equal better. The classical pronunciation has its rewards.

[@rohanofelvenpower5566]

ecclesiastical pronuanciation is the mark of a cult. You are pertaining in CULT activities when using ecclesiastical pronunciation.

[@portgas4881]

Hey, how I can get a classroom with u? About Latin

[@fatosshubert7272]

As a linguist, do you know where the Latin language comes from?

[@KishanKishan-ev3cm]

Your vice & latin english very good & fine .I liked . Thanks ,dr.k.l,sharma .from,india .

[@MircoMelloni]

In Italia we use ecclesiastic pronunciation and it is stringe for me your pronunciation. Ave.

[@redrainn5441]

Excellent!

[@velvetcroc9827]

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.

[@KL11WELLL]

@Velvetcroc9827 • 7Mo Ago ❤MAN I Didn't Know that

[@richardbowker1338]

There is also the question of musical pronunciation, as per the huge amount of latin texts. I think it's ecclesiastical.

[@ssenkungujohn8242]

The lesson is good

[@Issveinn]

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.

[@salobied1899]

Great video! Very helpful

[@bachthelawyer]

Tks

[@archiewoosung5062]

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!

[@teresasnamesake4784]

I'm partial to the ecclesiastical pronunciation, because that is how I first heard it; in church at Mass as a child

[@GrowingHomeGardening]

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).

[@laurenaddington-elmore8121]

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")".

[@MarioKL]

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.

[@humester]

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)

[@elishaeickhoff5040]

I'm curious- which pronunciation is best suited for medical Latin? Thanks!

[@Jay-oe8jn]

I would also like to know if someone would please answer😭

[@ObiePaddles]

I’d go with your regional accent.

[@ak7470]

Thanks a lot

[@guyesmith]

Do the videos complement and expound on the book or are they mostly just the book audibly?

[@carlareque2732]

Pulchre doces de pronuntiatione, gratias tibi ago

[@John_Malloy]

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.

[@SomeGuy1896]

Make sure to get the pre-Vatican II ones as well, which on top of following orthodoxy, also are just better put together in terms of the structures of the Mass. That means 1958 missals are the last year to go to. They also include Pope Pius XII’s reforms regarding the mass and the Eucharistic fast.

[@DCFunBud]

Flattery will get you everywhere.

[@shriyatiwari3088]

Where would I find the next lesson!?

[@Aditya-te7oo]

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.

[@tylerlawlerDEVGRU]

Latin from 3rd to 12th grade, with two years of Greek.

[@KhristopherTaylor]

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

[@jacksonamaral329]

Pretty good.

[@reedr7142]

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?

[@prettypurple7175]

CLASSICAL,

[@alextruecustodian6174]

Me a spanish speaker watching this: I can not shake this feeling of deja vu...

[@richarddoiron2222]

You can tell a priest that was ordained in the time of Latin, today they are hard to find,I still pray in Latin

[@robmeyer7985]

Sorry. I really was looking forward to this. But I could only watch two minutes before I got motion sickness.

[@kogoromori30]

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?

[@kseshshtern9968]

Spanish is a white language.

[@prettypurple7175]

CLASSICAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, NATIONAL PRONCIATION////

[@torressebastian6142]

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

[@MsJeffVader]

I so want to visit Cuba but I live so far away, Australia.

[@lukaspajic]

Bro stand still

[@georgekarydas1285]

"Diphthong" comes from Greek it means two sounds "Δίφθογγος"= Δύο φθόγγους.

[@MM-pj4bl]

Ecclesiastical Latin all the way

[@patjohnson4676]

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?

[@akitaarima]

i am supposed to sleep already. good lesson to sleep goodnight my ass

[@esthergatt4434]

the names you said they sound strange come from the acient greek

[@abandonbuildingdude6293]

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

[@pile_of_rocks952]

Why did I randomly want to learn Latin lmao

[@petervilliers-tuthill9190]

There is a 'T' in the word Latin.

[@briancox8561]

Yes only shopkeepers and other trades spoke that. The peasants talked diff and didn’t have the time to understand 😢

[@humester]

Why are you pronouncing 'erat' like 'eret' with the final 'a' sounding like an 'e' as in 'bet'?

[@girlfriendtruly8933]

Lol my mom forcing me to do this I am on her phone right now

[@NightOwl_30]

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"

[@teresasnamesake4784]

Diphthong probably came from the Phonecians

[@WalktheWalk-ki9kj]

I thought it sounds like "Latin in Cowboy boots," was funny.

[@JaumePons-d1v]

Hi

[@SpiceBear]

Smart sophisticated AND savvy? 😏

[@tonka5]

Salve Grumio Salve landlord

[@WagnerMignon]

0011 William Parkway

[@antonivsfortis]

I wanted to scream when he spoke Latin like English

[@kevinmccarthy8746]

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.

[@iberius9937]

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.

[@angbandart]

Wündebar! Wait I did that wrong

[@babla69420]

5:35

[@humester]

How to pronounce 'antepenultimate': kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2e5ZIFnoZl-opo

[@markcarillo9259]

Most Filipino wizards use Latin words

[@KDJi399s9cd0]

Why does he pronounce "erat" as "eret"?