05-09-2011, 05:42 PM
Quote:... in Spanich and Italian language you have the sound "-ay" for the letter "e" ... in French it's not the same sound it's more like the sound for the first letter "a" in the word -> "a-way".
In Latin language i think it's the same way of Spanich and Italian language for the "e" letter ... in fact it's the right pronounciation with "-ay" in english.
Thank you for the clarification. I ran an example of such a word at http://www.vocabolaudio.com/it/fedele to see what you mean. I guess I can hear something like a soft "-ay" for the second "e" in "fedele," (?) but as far as I can tell, the pronunciation of the long "e" is by far not as strong as I have heard English speakers make it. For instance, "okay Jose" - in this expression, "Jose" is pronounced similarly to "okay," whereas the "-e" in "Jose" should not be as accentuated as the "-ay" in "okay." Correct?
Here is the book on Roman pronunciation of Latin some of you asked about: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7528
M. CVRIVS ALEXANDER
(Alexander Kyrychenko)
LEG XI CPF
quando omni flunkus, mortati
(Alexander Kyrychenko)
LEG XI CPF
quando omni flunkus, mortati