LISTEN!

This link takes you to a blog post with an audio clip illustrating what spoken Indo-European may have sounded like. As you listen to it, read the script and pay attention to specific sounds, like the different varieties of velar fricatives, indicated by the letter h with the subscript numerals 1 and 2, as in the title: H₂óu̯is h₁éḱu̯ōs-k^we. You can find another two sample stories on the same blog. There is an unbroken line of descent between early Indo-European and contemporary English; in other words, this is what "English" sounded like all those centuries ago.

For the curious:

Until 2019 the Finnish national radio broadcast a weekly news summary in classical Latin, another dead Indo-European language. It was a labor of love by Latin enthusiasts, and Finnish is not even an IE language! Sadly, it stopped broadcasting a while ago, but episodes are still available. More recently the Vatican Radio began its own news summary in Latin. Even a casual listener can detect a difference in pronunciation between the two: the Finnish broadcast reproduces classical pronunciation, while the Vatican uses an Italian, post-classical pronunciation.