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Re:Show HN: A Latin self study course, Khan Academy-style by mudita on Monday March 29, 2021 @09:59AM (#26621635)
When you're learning latin, it's usually not mainly about the practical application, anyway, and aesthetically it feels somehow so much more pleasing to use the “correct” pronunciation - to me at least.

Furthermore it can help to understand historic and linguistic relationships in unexpected ways:

For example the German word for emperor “Kaiser” looks very different to the Latin “Caesar” and the relationship between those words remains obscured by the way most Germans pronounce Caesar. But it was a revelation to me, when I learned that “c” and “ae”are actually pronounced the same way as the “k” and “ai” in the German “Kaiser”. We literally still call emperors Caesar in German!

Re:Show HN: A Latin self study course, Khan Academy-style by thaumasiotes on Monday March 29, 2021 @11:47AM (#26623586)
Aren't the "s" and the "s" different, though? And the "r" and the "r"?
Re:Show HN: A Latin self study course, Khan Academy-style by QuercusMax on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:57PM (#26626624)
It's pretty dang close for 2100 years!
Re:Show HN: A Latin self study course, Khan Academy-style by mmmmmbop on Monday March 29, 2021 @07:24PM (#26629578)
The Russian 'tsar' is similarly derived from Caesar.