[Jim Noble]

or a correct First Century AD Roman diction

You have the tapes?

[Fiji Hill]

The Roman Pronunciation of Latin by Frances Long (Boston: Ginn, 1894) is a competent guide to the pronunciation of classical Latin.

[muawiyah]

The Medieval version is taught in Catholic parochial schools. Outside of that the Roman "reconstructed pronunciation" is very popular just about everywhere. I think folks who go on to learn to speak Latin (mostly Catholic priests) get busy and learn the Medieval system or this system based on standard Italian.

Right now the Google Translate version for written Latin is perfectly adequate for what I need to do (read old stuff) ~ plus, ALL the idiomatic expressions are fixed in time and are well known so you can look them up outside of Google in case you forget what one of them means.

Singing is the thing ~there are still popular songs in Latin (Carl Orff made sure of that ~ see: Carmina Burana ). I prefer my Latin pronounced in Latin and not English or Italian