English words are of Latin origin, and what kind of words are they? Why
should we study Latin?




PART I

THE PRONUNCIATION OF LATIN


THE ALPHABET

«1.» The Latin alphabet contains the same letters as the English except
that it has no _w_ and no _j_.

«2.» The vowels, as in English, are _a, e, i, o, u, y_. The other
letters are consonants.

«3.» _I_ is used both as a vowel and as a consonant. Before a vowel in
the same syllable it has the value of a consonant and is called _I
consonant_.

Thus in IÅ«-li-us the first _i_ is a consonant, the second a vowel.


SOUNDS OF THE LETTERS[1]

[Footnote 1: N.B. The sounds of the letters are best learned by
hearing them correctly pronounced. The matter in this section is,