I forget that in the experience of many people, Latin is chiefly a written language and not a spoken one. For me with languages, reading, speaking, and spelling are so linked in my mind that they flow into and support one another, and I don't like to separate them unnaturally, but not everyone learns the same way. Also, you are supposed to learn Church tradition chiefly by oral tradition and chiefly from dusty books, but unfortunately this has not been the situation for the majority of people in recent decades.
To try to help deal with uncertainty about pronunciation, here are some good pronunciation guides to pick from, one via EWTN, one from shrinesf.org, and one from NYU that gives a hat tip to traditional regional pronunciations. If people are curious I can discuss the history of this at length in another post. If it would help I can post some short sound clips of myself speaking Latin. I tried to do this at one point but I felt so geeky recording myself that I stopped. But for my readers I would go to the extra effort. I could also try and find some clips of Fr. Reggie Foster so you don't think the way I do it is the only way - in my opinion, though it's not necessary to ape an Italian accent, English-speakers should beware of trying to bend the language too much to their own accents as American vowels sound particularly strange in Latin (and can make it difficult to understand).
Anyway, it may feel a little weird at first, but if you forge on, eventually it becomes your own and the Church's prayer becomes your own prayer in a new and deeper way.
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