Hey again, I’m back. I worked my way through Cap. VIII of Lingua Latina last year, and then changed jobs and put it down for awhile- I’ve now started over and am in Cap. V.
What I don’t have, however, is any way of knowing what my pronunciation’s like. I know that reading aloud will help me learn, and I’m sure that what I’m thinking in my head is wrong. But I can’t learn how to speak it from a pronunciation guide- a list of vowels and what they sound like short and long isn’t going to do me any good. I did take French in high school, and Greek, German and Ancient Hebrew in college, and I have learned that when studying a language, I need to hear it and know what the person is saying at the same time.
So- I’ve looked on Youtube, lots of vids of people reading Latin aloud- but never with subtitles, never where I have any way of knowing what they’re reading from or saying. Which isn’t a lot of help. And I’ve found vids of Latin classes, but those don’t have subtitles either, and even when they’re using LL they’re never reading from the book. I can figure some things out that way, but not a lot.
I know that LL has a CD you can buy with the first 10 Cap.s in audio on it- does anyone know, is that a computer reading it aloud, or a recording of an actual person, going slow enough that I can follow along? Still, I’d feel bad buying it, as I am currently out of work and not exactly receiving my own mail (long story).
So does anyone know of, say, Youtube vids with people reading something aloud and showing you the words as they read them, or something like that? I’m looking for people who know what they’re doing, not so much the beginning student projects. Thanks!
When I was first learning Latin pronunciation, these were my example. So many of the other readings of Latin texts I’ve come across on YouTube and elsewhere have this laughable, sing-song quality to them which I couldn’t possibly imitate without feeling a goose, whereas these are read (by I know not who) with a lovely, sleepy intonation and with due attention to meaning and emphasis.
It’s poetry, so not the most useful for reading Lingua Latina, but you might want to check out Alatius’s recordings on his YouTube page. http://www.youtube.com/user/Winge42
All the readings on his website have the marked up texts, so you could follow along with those. There are plenty of good prose readings, like Cicero, Livy, Quintilian, Tacitus, and Caesar. http://web.comhem.se/alatius/latin/
I know that LL has a CD you can buy with the first 10 Cap.s in audio on it- does anyone know, is that a computer reading it aloud, or a recording of an actual person, going slow enough that I can follow along? Still, I’d feel bad buying it, as I am currently out of work and not exactly receiving my own mail (long story).
The audio covers the first 30 lessons, at least in the windows CD version I have. Orberg does read quite quickly and his voice is quite expressionless, but the recordings are useful. The program itself is a bit long in the tooth now and looks and feels dated, but is perfectly usable. I don’t think it’s essential by any means, but I did think it added something to my study of the book - mainly the automatic correction of Pēnsae A et B.
Oh! I wasn’t talking about the computer CD-ROM, just the audio CD. I have a netbook that runs Linux, and while I can boot Windows up I usually don’t. So booting up Windows and connecting the external CD drive would be a hassle. Besides, I have the teacher’s materials, so the correction isn’t really necessary. The audio CD says it’s just the first 10 lessons, I wonder why?