Spoken latin

Guest   Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:26 pm GMT
Guest   Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:11 am GMT
The only one who sounds even remotely natural is the woman in the last one...
Guest   Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:12 am GMT
By the way, can you tell their native language from listening to that?
Guest   Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:28 am GMT
I thought the man in the first video sounded "natural".
Guest   Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:35 pm GMT
I say these ppl are Spanish. They all sound unnatural to me btw.
Galego   Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:07 pm GMT
I'm not sure about him but she sounds Italian. Clearly Italian.
Guest   Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:20 pm GMT
Either Spanish or Italian
Guest   Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:14 am GMT
1. First guy : Italian/Romanian/Spanish speaker
2. Second guy: Germanic accent
3. The lady: Slavic accent
Guest   Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:28 am GMT
1. the 1st one sounds like a Modern Greek and not like Latin LOL
2. a German language speaker with a rhotic accent
3. She sounds Latin LOL
Informer   Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:54 pm GMT
1. First speaker: either Castilian Spanish or posh Mexican-Spanish. So, it's a close native accent.

2. Second speaker: has a Germanic intonation, but could also be a
watered down American accent. And so, it's an okay accent.

3. Third speaker: she's inbetween an Italian, a Romanian or a Spanish accent. Thus.....a native accent.
Guest   Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:43 pm GMT
What a fool Informer is! There's no such thing as a 'native accent' of Latin.
Guest   Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:34 pm GMT
The second guy is definately American.
Guest   Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:04 am GMT
The way she pronounces the first words starting from 0:27 sounds non-Latin to me. Moreover, she doesn't pronounce the /a/ for the the letter "a" in:
0:29 "linguam latinam"
0:40 "opera"
0:48 "prima"

Any Italian/Spanish/Romanian would pronounce correctly /a/ in those words, but she doesn't. In some words her sound for "a" is close to /ə/ .
Guest   Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:27 am GMT
I think this is good evidence that you can't recognise someone's language when they're speaking some other language you don't understand (referring to that other thread in the English section).
zatsu   Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:19 pm GMT
Err.. just look at their names people...
And they CLEARLY have an accent, hehe.