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on November 01, 2017

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A Little More Latin

Welcome to your 'dead language' lesson! Latin is the basis for all the 'romance' languages - Spanish, French, Italian, plus a few more - and lends a lot of sounds to English, so the pronunciation is not all that difficult. We're using 'Church' or 'Ecclesiastical' pronunciations, which are closer to what you might hear in a religious service today. Marlowe was probably somewhere closer to the original pronunciation, but that mixed with the fact that Elizabethan English sounded quite a bit stranger than we might suspect means that it would be very difficult for modern audiences to follow along. Let's just give them a taste of Latin, shall we, instead of beating people over the head with a dead language? Cheers. * * * * * Since English borrowed its alphabet from Latin, the pronunciation of individual Latin letters is close to that of English. The differences are mainly the vowels and a few consonants. Vowels Long Short ...

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