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Message:: [QUOTE="Eduard, post: 3040389, member: 8959"]Interesting topic. I have often asked myself how the romans pronounced words in latin. How did the roman pronounce words like Cesar, Cicero  Italia, Centurio, Aelius, Aemilia, Agrippa, Gallia, Germania....?I did not take latin in school, but listened to enough of it during my boarding school years (suppertime prayers were said in latin in my boarding school) to get a feel how it may have been pronounced. Having lived in Latin America before and able to speak Spanish fairly fluently , it seemed to me the pronunciation was very similar to the way Spanish is pronounced. I even tried it once with my schoolmates taking latin, and they were quite surprised. Of course I did not understand what on earth I was reading.... [/QUOTE]