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- "Ego a California venio."
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At least two pronunciation errors, I think:
The a on the end of California should be long, since it is the ablative case. The e in venio should be short in the present tense.
I've reported this as "The audio does not sound correct."
You definitely can leave out the ego! and you would naturally do so, in latin you only every use personal pronouns when you want want to really stress the subject. "A" is still needed, though - it literally translates to "from". Venire in itself only means "to come", so ommiting it would make as much sense as the English "I come California"!
2075
They mean the same, but "a" is used if the next word starts with a consonant, and "ab" if it starts with a vowel. (Similar to "a/an" distinction in English.)
I'd say the male one needs to re-record almost everything. The female one isn't perfect either but it's much more consistent, so advising that you follow that one. A word of caution about the pronunciation errors in the recordings... the words that we would think of as having h-digraphs (th, ch, ph) are sometimes pronounced incorrectly. ⟨th⟩ is [tʰ] not [θ] ⟨ch⟩ is [kʰ] not anythinɡ else ⟨ph⟩ is [pʰ] not [f]
1549
If "ego" is left out (which I think is acceptable), is the sentence starting with "A" in "A California venio" acceptable?
2075
Yes, that's fine. Actually, "ego" would typically be left out, unless the speaker wanted to put special emphasis on it.