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Semper ego auditor tantum? numquamne reponam
uexatus totiens rauci Theseide Cordi?
inpune ergo mihi recitauerit ille togatas,
hic elegos? inpune diem consumpserit ingens
Telephus aut summi plena iam margine libri
scriptus et in tergo necdum finitus Orestes?
--Juvenal Saturae I.1.1-6


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Resources To Teach Yourself Beginning Latin:
PRONUNCIATION

Pronunication

Latin 1.
An exciting find. If my sound card were working I'd check out the oral Latin lessons. Latin 2 and 3 are also on-line.

Latin Pronunciation.
Not Church Latin.

The History of Latin Pronunciation
Princeton Music Department's Peter Jeffrey's bibliography on Latin pronunciation.

How Should We Pronounce Latin
By William Harris, an essay on pronouncing Classical Latin. It's a matter of taste, says Harris, except for our aspirated stop consonants which are just wrong. Also see his The Pronunciation of Latin: Phonematic Length of the Latin Vowels and Stress in Latin and the Pronunciation of Prose.

Pronunciation of Church Latin
The American Guild of Church Organists explains how to pronounce Latin vowels, diphthongs, and consonants in order to sing church music.

Readings
Latin poetry read aloud for the University of Richmond Latin 202 class.

Talkin' Like The Ancient Romans
It begins by explaining how to pronounce the vowels and consonants c, j, v, g; followed by tables of common and less common Latin expressions with their English equivalents.

Locutio Linguae Latinae Paucis
Basic pronunication of vowels and diphthongs, consonants, syllables, and stress.

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