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"Novum Eboracum est et urbs et civitas."
Translation:New York is both a city and a state.
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Yes, you are right, Cesar. Too strong American accent in this sentence. Latin accent should resemble Italian accent more than any other one... But on the other hand, there is no opportunity to learn Latin in this way (easy and free) all over the world, and believe me: the old methodology at school, when I studied Latin many years ago was the Hell itself. Anyway, I miss a lot the names of many cities of the Ancient World. I hope they will appear later...
i would conjecture that various pronunciations of latín resulted after it's expansive geographical applications before electronic comunicación, whence romance languages; and latín writings from places North of or external to those places using romance languages being a little idiosyncratic. i wonder if it is possible to notice whether a medieval latín work was written in brittain as opposed to germany? today even with internet local dialects are everywhere. i can see 2 valid oppositional points: 1. classical latín should be preserved and that is what we should learn. 2 . latín is no longer a roman language and we should learn what is most current. this reminds me of the issue of whether so many native languages which have been decimated by imperialism should at this point be preserved. is there some practical advantage to knowing classical latín, or something like inuit? i cannot judge and please just ignore my ramblings as this is not a place for such topics but for language learning--and many kudos to its creators supporters and users.
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Hilarious! I thought she sounded Scottish! But yes - might be Germanic. I don't detect American.
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The way she say urbs definitely isn't German. That's an English pronunciation of the u.
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If you login via internet and not via app you can enter a tips section for every chapter. There are explanations. Unfortunately duolingo works different on ios app, android app and internet. And has different options on each version.
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Why is "new york is both a town and a state" not correct. Where is the difference in urbe between town and city?