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| couragepiece93 Groupie United States Joined 5768 days ago 77 posts - 78 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian, Latin | Message 9 of 11 27 May 2009 at 3:05am | IP Logged |
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In my school we do not focus at all about pronunciation of latin. If a particular sound doesn't exist in English, we find the closest alternative, ie: we pronounce "r" as the English r.
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| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6148 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes | Message 10 of 11 27 May 2009 at 4:52am | IP Logged |
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I think that's rather lazy of the teachers and it fails to show the proper respect for the language, but unfortunately, that attitude is all too common among schools.
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| couragepiece93 Groupie United States Joined 5768 days ago 77 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian, Latin | Message 11 of 11 27 May 2009 at 11:54pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah, it'd be cool to be able to speak with the actual pronunciation. She told us that she learned latin because she's bad with foreign languages (she doesn't like trying to learn new sounds). She's obsessed with ancient rome, however, so we focus a lot on culture and reading old latin manuscripts, and later, epics.
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