where can i hear latin words pronounced?

Question

i need to know exactly how to say dei gratia is it like (di gracia) or (day gra t a) or wat?

Answer 1

Latin is a dead language, and the only remnants of it that we have are written. No one knows how to pronounce it, but people sure love to fight over the way they think it should be pronounced.

Answer 2

Catholic priests used to speak in it ! You can listen to a Mass service in Latin, or get a recording of a mass by a classical composer.

However whether the pronounciation is used is the same as when it was a genuine language I doubt. It probably died out when the Goths, Lombards and others invaded Italy in the approx 4-6th centuries and got distorted into various Italian dialects that are the basis of modern Italian.

Answer 3

There loads if different correct ways of pronouncing latin. You can pronounce like the very old Romans, like the classical Romans, like not-so-old Romans, like the Italians, like the French, like the British, like the Germans, like the Swedish, like the moderns singers (often like the Italians), like the catholic priests (either like the Italians or like their own national standard of Latin pronunciation), and so on. And often every country doesn'r have one standard but several. And the problem is, every standard of pronunciation is correct, depending on context.

Now, the good news is, this word is pronounced in the same way in most of these standards of pronunciation, namely something like "grátseeya" ("gráh-tsee-ya", much like the Italian word "grazia").

Answer 4

This may not help, but Latin isnt necessarily a dead language. The Catholic Church uses it all the time. Maybe you could go to a local Catholic church and see if a priest might know.....

Answer 5

here is a free language program I used when learning Romanian it also has Latin
http://www.byki.com/fls/lati/latin

Answer 6

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where can i hear latin words pronounced?
i need to know exactly how to say dei gratia is it like (di gracia) or (day gra t a) or wat?

Answer 7

The main issue for english speaker is getting the Ts, Ps, and Qs right. They are not pronounced at the beginnings of words like they are in English- they are UNaspirated. Compare the "P" in pool and the "P" in stop. You want to mimic the "P" in stop. It's clipped and there's no air coming behind the consonant. "O" is long, but unlike anything in English. Don't pronounce it like "owe". It should be deeper and unrounded. "D" is like the "TH" in bother. It is NEVER pronounced like an english "D". "E" is short, like "bet" "R" is rolled (I know, it's not the "rr", but it's still rolled at the beginning and end of a word). so it's like poTHERRR

Answer 8

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