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Applicatio optima!

Haec applicatio mihi valde placet! Usui facilis intellegibilisque est.

FlorentCS

a month ago

Best Latin Resource Available

As this is my second year using this app, it’s probably time for a review! With a mind-blowing amount of Latin texts with clear audio, the value of this app for anyone looking to learn Latin cannot be overstated. Legentibus will take Latin from being a “dead” language to a “living” language for you—worth every penny, you won’t regret it!

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ReillyIr

2 months ago

Educational and fun

Just started with the beginner lessons after learning Latin with Duolingo for almost a year. This app is fantastic! The word by word translation is great and the audio is brilliant. It’s fun and interesting, well done! Just give it a try, you’ll love it too.

Karel11

2 months ago

Just a way to charge $99 for free material

Everything this app offers is free elsewhere. They want $99 PER YEAR to access Lingva Latina.

Everything this offers: dictionary, background play, books, etc. is all free online, and tbh it’s pretty sketchy they’re charging so much to access Lingva Latina.

You don’t even realize what material is locked until getting through the 4 page (what appears to be AI generated introduction). I have to assume some of the stories were created with the same method. I’m so tired of apps like this being labeled “free (with in app purchases)”.

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Kojin no Kaizen

3 months ago

Response from developer

The vast amount of the material in Legentibus is original and unique: for example, a lot of the beginner books, as well as ALL of the audio recordings, have been produced, with much love and labor, exclusively for Legentibus, and are available nowhere else. The texts that are based on free resources have all been carefully edited and corrected, and supplied with vowel length marks. The Latin language itself is of course a timeless entity that is free for anyone to enjoy and study. What Legentibus offers is a unique learning experience: Latin texts, classical as well as new and original, read aloud by renowned experts, presented in a unique and motivating user interface, with commentary and dictionaries at your fingertips. This is all made possible by the support of our loyal, appreciative and enthusiastic subscribers, without whom Legentibus would not exist.

the app ive been waiting for

As a student, it’s difficult to access material like this except for when latinists release it for free (which I don’t expect them to do of course!). But having an app with a very reasonable subscription and all these features is amazing. The value is absolutely worth it, especially with the ability to both read and listen.

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263747477

5 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you for the great review!

Good learning resource

Great corpus and helps with pronunciation. Sadly figures and notes are missing from books. Would benefit from a lifetime membership option.

Anonymous Sydney Reviewer

6 months ago

Response from developer

Salve! Thank you for the 5 stars! Are you referring to Familia Romana? Unfortunately, when licensing the rights to Familia Romana, they did not allow the use of the marginal notes and illustrations. Note however that you can tap on any word and get an English definition. We are working to implement an integrated Latin-Latin dictionary.

Misleading

I decided to look at this program for the free 3 day trial. I immediately realized it had almost nothing for students of ecclesiastical Latin. Within 20 minutes. I tried to cancel. I evoidently erroneously signed for the shortest subscription as it appeared that was the only way to look at the program. I was charged $9.99 and I don’t know how since I don’t use Apple Pay. Somehow they accessed my credit card info. Time to get a new card I guess. I complained and have still been charged for a month for something I only looked at for 20 minutes. Be careful of the limited offers on the App Store. This is the second time I have been charged for a subscription when I was using the free trial.

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Guitane

6 months ago

I like Latin because I am a Christian. I am prosecuted by Muslims in western countries.

This app is great.

Winning the game 2024

10 months ago

Useful for a wide variety of Latin readers!

I have known Daniel Pettersson for a number of years and have seen him demonstrate that he is a remarkably skilled scholar, reader, and speaker of Latin by any yardstick you choose. His Legentibus platform combines both the traditional tools that have been available online to the Latin student reader for some time (i.e. linked glossaries for each word and explanatory notes) with a high-quality audio transcript or performance of the text, read clearly and expressively but avoiding melodrama. A specialist might quarrel with some details of Daniel’s pronunciation, but the bottom line is that Daniel’s viva voce performance presents vowel quantities consistently and in a believable way.

Scholars agree that Romain texts were written to be heard rather than read silently. Daniel has provided us and those we teach with a convincing and engaging text performance to hear and read at the same time. Other than participating in a Latin immersion workshop with highly skilled presenters, I can think of no better way to improve one’s sense of authentic Latin usage than to spend time every day with Daniel’s text performances.

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Oenopus

a year ago

My favorite app

This app makes learning Latin fun and possible. There are some classic texts and some brand new ones. Pugio Bruti, for instance, is a fantastic new Latin story. It’s so passionately thought out and so well constructed, that I think this could be a model for other foreign language learning apps.

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