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Latin in Action ep. 2! (Patreon)

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2025-10-26 11:08:16
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Latin in Action! ep.2 | Taking, Putting, Drinking

Learn Latin through Comprehensible Input! Latin in Action (the sister series to Ancient Greek in Action) teaches you the language entirely through the medium of Latin, an approach called Comprehensible Input. By watching every video in this series in order, you should be able to understand everything after watching a video two or three times. In this way, you will build a strong foundation in LATIN. ("Latin" as a term encompasses the grammar and vocabulary of both Classical Latin and Ecclesiastical Latin.) 🏛️ 🐢 LATIN IN ACTION 🦉 by Luke Amadeus Ranieri 🦂 L. Amādeus Rāniērius In this video, the only words you need to acquire are the future, present, and simple-past of the verbs of taking, drinking, putting down, which are printed on the screen. Other words are uttered in the video which are not essential to acquire at this time; merely concern yourself with learning by heart the forms "I will throw, I throw, I threw," etc. Once you have seen this video enough times, repeat these verbs from memory every time you take something or put it down, and every time you take a drink. Find opportunities to use these verbs, joining your utterances to physical actions that will ingrain them into long-term memory. The full script, while unnecessary for the scope of this video as a Comprehensible Input tool, is available for my Patreon supporters: (Coming soon!) The pronunciation you hear is that of Classical Latin, a literary period from the 1st century BC to the 2nd century AD. See my various videos on Latin pronunciation both on this channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXC2COSA2yQjJD-c1kKU6-TKlzErrGxmh and on my other channel polýMATHY: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQQL5IeNgck2Ytcf9Sz3OSTVFe7MOM7u9 Notā bene: Both Latin in Action and Ancient Greek in Action are deliberately meant to cover more or less the same basic vocabulary and situations. My dream is for there to be a hundred videos in both series, giving people with no experience in either language the opportunity to achieve basic fluency in both. Latin in Action musical theme: "Best of Both Worlds" by Zac Nelson. 🦂 Support my work on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LukeRanieri 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com 🏛 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU1WuLg45SixsonRdfNNv-CPNq8xUwgam ☕️ Support my work with PayPal: https://paypal.me/lukeranieri 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: https://luke-ranieri.myshopify.com Join the channel to support it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRllohBcHec7YUgW6HfltLA/join 🌅 ScorpioMartianus apud Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lukeranieri/ 🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast: https://youtube.com/LegioXIII 🎙 Hundres of hours of Latin & Greek audio: https://lukeranieri.com/audio 👕 Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/scorpiomartianus 🦂 https://www.ScorpioMartianus.com 🦅 https://www.LukeRanieri.com

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Ioannes Oculus

Why do you pronounce "ponam" as "pona" (without nasalisation of the final vowel)? Or is it just my mishearing? They same is with "sumam". Or is the nasalisation so delicate that it's barely hearable?

Luke Amadeus Ranieri

Hi Jan! You are mishearing. The nasalization is very much there. (Recall that nasalization in Polish is rather different than how it is usually reconstructed for Classical Latin).

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Hello, Luke, how do you usually pronounce vowel+nf / vowel+ns? I've read in Vox Latina that in the Classical Period the "n" was most likely not pronounced – only the vowel was lengthened and nasalised or just lengthened without nasalisation. How would you recommend pronouncing it? In this video it seems to me that you pronounce "mēⁿsa" with a long and nasalised "e" without [n], but in some other videos it seemed to me that you sometimes pronounced [n] sound or maybe [ŋ], I'm not sure. And is it true that the vast majority of Latin speakers using Classical Pronunciation do pronounce [n] before s/f?

Luke Amadeus Ranieri

Salvē! Thanks so much for your comment. It’s a great question! The best guess, as Sydney Allen describes in Vox Latina, is that the n before s and f had caused their previous vowels to undergo nasalization as they disappeared (with compensatory lengthening of that vowel), and that nasalization may even have been absent from the spoken language, as early as the late Old Latin period (roughly the 2cBC). This explains early abbreviations like COS for CONSVL. However, educated Romans began to restore the N in these positions by analogy (at least in spelling, though likely also in pronunciation) by the Classical Period, giving rise to a true long vowel followed by a true consonantal /n/. But this likely didn’t last long, as the evidence we have from later Classical Latin and Late Latin, as well as Romance, is that this N again underwent lenition to nasalize the preceding vowel. I reckon there is a phonological characteristic in common here between Italian, Spanish, and ancient Latin, where Vnf and Vns always suffer this process, because the exact same thing may be heard in standard Italian today: “insegnare” does not have a true /n/ before the s, but rather an approximate of that sound which is essentially the nasalization of the preceding vowel. The same thing occurred regularly in Ancient Greek: /ns/ usually deletes the ν, even in inscriptions at the end of words. So this appears to be a pretty frequent sandhi cross-linguistically. So what should we do in Latin? It would seem we have permission to choose any of the three options. My preference is to do exactly as Italian: very careful speech may give a true /n/ sound in these positions, but most of the time it relaxes into the nasalization of the preceding vowel. Which is why I’m not very consistent; my ears tell me there is this same inconsistency in Italian, so I’m okay with it.

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Thank you! Using Italian as a guiding light is a great idea! And am I right to say that [ŋ] shouldn’t be pronounced instead of [n]? Sometimes I end nasalisation with a [ŋ] sound, but I think that’s because I wasn’t familiar with nasal vowels before I started learning Latin

Luke Amadeus Ranieri

That’s right, [ŋ] is not the right sound; that’s the sound in “king, sing” etc.

Nancy Allen

Lūcī, quid significat nōmen bubōnis tuī, quaesō?

Nancy Allen

Noctua tua multō pulchriōrem vocem habet quam illa in pelliculā.😊🦉