Archive for March, 2009
Latin Consonants Posted by kunthra on Mar 13, 2009
Let’s get to the long awaited Latin consonants. Before we do that I just want to say that if you’re an English speaker or if you speak a Romance language like Italian, French or Spanish, you’ll probably relate to Latin a lot easier than someone who has no familiarity with a Romance language. Most of…
Latin Vowels Posted by kunthra on Mar 12, 2009
Tada! We’re going to look at some Latin vowels. When you see a horizontal line over a vowel like this: ā, it means that the vowel is prolonged. Ok, let’s start the Latin learning. ā : is pronounced like fAther. An example of a Latin word that contains this sound is hāc a : is pronounced…
Introduction to Latin Posted by kunthra on Mar 11, 2009
Salve! Let’s start the first post in Latin with a greeting. In Latin salve means hello. Today’s post will be about pronouncing Latin letters. I’ll reserve another post for Latin greetings some other time, but for today let’s just focus on Latin pronunciation. Before I start, I want to talk about the dicey issue of…