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I think it's partially true. It's not always the one that is coming first that is emphasized.
SOV is the most common in Latin:
Puella canem amat. (The girl loves the dog)
Canem puella amat.
"Dog" will be emphasized, because it's the part that has been displaced in the sentence.
When there's a SVO, or VOS/VSO, as it's the case when we use the verb "to be" in Latin, the emphasis would be on the displaced word.
If it's a SVO, the emphasized version would be a SOV, to emphasize the verb, but in SVO with to be, no emphasis of the object.
https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-the-latin-word-order-119444
In classical Latin (Latin spoken by educated ancient Romans around the time of Julius Ceasar) "v" was always pronounced as "u" or "w". Latin was later adopted as a kind of scholarly, international language across Europe and the pronunciation changed depending on where it was spoken and those new pronunciation became accepted as the norm. I guess this course focuses on classical pronunciations.