How do you pronounce your Latin?

Mārcvs_Trēvic · March 28, 2017, 2:37pm

calvinist:

I started out using the classical pronunciation without vowel length distinctions or geminate consonants, but about a year ago I decided to make an effort with vowel length and gemination. I felt like giving up many times because training oneself to develop a feel for morae is quite a hill climb. The work has paid off though and now I actually find it hard to go back to a pronunciation that ignores vowel length. Stressed syllables were the easiest to master (malum/mālum), then came gemination (operītur/opperītur), then pretonic vowel length (amābāmus not amabāmus), and the hardest to master was final long vowels (modo/modō). The following two have the best restored classical pronunciation I’ve heard and gives some idea of what Latin during the Late Republic/Early Empire might’ve sounded like spoken by the elites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Forgq8ooePs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOzDgdhpffk

This is good to know. Thank You.