Can anyone recommend a Latin textbook that uses IPA for pronunciation? Since i learned to read IPA i've found anything else hard to use in comparison. I'm just not a fan of "the first a in papä", especially as many pronunciation guides like this are written in English English and i'm used to USA accents.
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CannedMan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I very much agree with you. I teach Latin and Norwegian, and just saying a as in [insert word here] is very misleading to anyone even mildly interested in learning correct pronunciation. The A is in fact a very good example of that, as the Norwegian a is a back vowel, whilst most Slavs for example pronounce it as a front vowel, making it so similar to A that it to a Norwegian often sounds like /æ/. The Latin a is usually best represented as /a/ or /ä/, which is quite far away from /ɑ/.
iacobus@colloquium.social · 1 pts · 328d
@IndigoGollum I haven't come across any, but IPA pronunciations are available on Wiktionary. There only a handful of vowels that need some practice, and pronunciation is pretty consistent, tho, so I would think would be easy enough to get the hang of.
IndigoGollum@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 327d
They are, i think my main problem is that an imprecise guide from an accent that's different from mine is worse than no pronunciation guides at all.