hi ron, ages ago i posted in the “latin” section a little introduction to pronouncing horace’s first ode:
http://discourse.textkit.com/t/latin-poetry/1850/1
it’s based on reconstructed latin pronunciation, including weird little things like a vowel + m at the end of the word sound like our “ng”.
i’m also learning french and the more i study french, the less i study latin for some reason. my latin’s pretty bad; i much prefer greek anyway