No, pronounce as you see it. El is el.
I don’t think my questions belong here anymore (perhaps in another forum), but how can I tell when I’m supposed to pronounce a long vowel or a short one?
Ex: Salvete:
Where’s the long vowel and where’s the short vowel? Is there some rule for this?
Well, you could look it up, or you could memorize where the stress is. I know from memorization that the first e in Salvete is long, but I also know it’s pronounced salvéte, so I would know that that vowel must be long even if I had forgotten that the second e was long. If it were sálvete, I’d know for sure the e was short, but a second conjugation always has the second-person plural imperative active with -Ete and never -ete.
The vowel lengths are memorized, by seeing the long marks over them.