Nuntii Latini

[Focalist]

Brush up your classical listening skills by turning in to the News in Latin from Finnish Radio (when you get there click on Recitatio) and Radio Bremen (click on Auscultandi facultas).

Apart from anything else, it's fascinating to compare the sound of Finnish Latin with that of German Latin.

F

 

[Leopold]

Wow, that's great. I reallly prefer the Finnish one.

 

[Focalist]

I reallly prefer the Finnish one.

I agree, Leo. Despite the obvious Finnish accent, the Latin is so much more fluently spoken in Helsinki than in Bremen, don't you think?

F

 

[Leopold]

Absolutely. But sometimes it seems a little like Esperanto... don't u think? i guess it's the rythm, the spaces between words and syllables.

sci-en-tia na-tu-ra-le

 

[Focalist]

Absolutely. But sometimes it seems a little like Esperanto... don't u think? i guess it's the rythm, the spaces between words and syllables.

sci-en-tia na-tu-ra-le

I think that's probably a carry over from the way Finnish is spoken: it has a rather level syllable stress and overall rhythm. Compare the news in Finnish here.

Personally, I always think of spoken Latin as sounding more like Italian than anything else -- that's probably just the after-effect of many years of Catholic churchgoing when the language of worship was still Latin. Even in the days of the Roman Empire, though, there must have been many local accents!

One thing. I don't know if you agree with me, but when the YLE lady reads words like curabatur as curabátur it sounds wrong to me: I want it to be curábatur. Years and years (and years!) since I last studied Latin so I'm probably totally wrong!

F

 

[Leopold]

Yes, i think it's Finnish influence. It's so funny Finnish! And so difficult!
I've also thought about that "curábatur".But i think that's Spanish contamination. But in fact it's "curabátur". It's also a lot of time i don't study Latin, but look: curo

By the way, take a look at that www.verbix.com

L.

 

[Whodunit]

Hey, that's funny. The German one sounds very similar to our teacher's Latin. And the Finnish like - hum, I don't know.

I'd like to see a Latin forum in here. So I can learn harder over and over again. Does anyone agree?

 

[Focalist]

I'd like to see a Latin forum in here. So I can learn harder over and over again. Does anyone agree?

It would be good to be able to discuss Latin here, I agree. But there's no reason why we can't do it here in "Other Languages", whodunit. It's a quiet street -- not too much traffic. If you see anything coming, just shout "car!"

Mind you, my Latin is terrible -- still interested though!

The German one sounds very similar to our teacher's Latin.

Hansestadt Hamburg / HH / ha-ha! I thought he sounded just like an old teacher too!

F (old teacher)

 

[Whodunit]

It would be good to be able to discuss Latin here, I agree. But there's no reason why we can't do it here in "Other Languages", whodunit. It's a quiet street -- not too much traffic. If you see anything coming, just shout "car!"

Mind you, my Latin is terrible -- still interested though!

My Latin is terrible as well, since we never translate from German into Latin. It's a real pity, but of course we can't - the word ordering is very different.

Hansestadt Hamburg / HH / ha-ha! I thought he sounded just like an old teacher too!

F (old teacher)

My Latin teacher is very funny, and the man's voice of the website/tape you gave sounds very similar to my teacher's one.
Tomorrow, I'll have Latin two lessons - besides, what's "bitte" in Latin. My 60'000 word dictionary doesn't say it.

 

[gatoviejo]

hi Who -

Bitte! = Quaeso! with a "-" on the top of the "o" for the emphasis.

lg gato

 

[Focalist]

what's "bitte" in Latin. My 60'000 word dictionary doesn't say it.

I was tempted to say: the Romans never said "please", they just said "give"

To be fair, though, I think it's just one of those cases where various periphrases were, in fact, used. I'd even venture so far as to say that simple, short ways of saying "please" are rare in the world's languages. German "bitte" and Italian "prego" (both meaning: I pray) are unusually terse. Even English "please" is a shortening of the French-based calque "if it please (you)". It's by no means easy to determine, for instance, how to say "please" in Swedish. Varsågod -- "be so good (as to) -- is only one possibility.

For more "everyday phrases", have a look at:
http://linguaeterna.com/la/conv.php

F

 

[vachecow]

Wow...ya know, its kind of funny. I learned Latin in the US, but I had a Ukranian teacher......so I guess that I am used to the accent

 

[Whodunit]

hi Who -

Bitte! = Quaeso! with a "-" on the top of the "o" for the emphasis.

lg gato

Today, I asked my teacher and he said it, too.
You mean "Quaesō" and the dash above it is called "macron".
It really means "I ask for it/Ich bitte"

To Kater: You don't have to put the macrons over the letters, that's only for beginners - but I like to use them.

 

[supercrom]

Hey, that's funny. The German one sounds very similar to our teacher's Latin. And the Finnish like - hum, I don't know.

I'd like to see a Latin forum in here. So I can learn harder over and over again. Does anyone agree?

I agree with you,
Perhaps the (future) Latin forum hasn't got many participants, but at least it will be very useful.

CROM