Not actually Latin
A large proportion of the words taught in this app are not actually Latin at all. A great many are just the English words repeated. (Sorry, “Burger” is not the Latin word for burger and the ancient Romans did not have airports!) Please don’t use this to learn Latin, you will be learning gibberish.
This app is a scam
If I could get my money back. Why would you pay for the app then pay again and again for every little thing . Don’t get this app
Ok
I think this app would be much better if it was free, and even if it’s still the same price for pro, I wish the free version had more things; like more verbs and nouns. Also, the audio sometimes doesn’t work, however I won’t blame them because it might be my phone. My point is that it needs to be more useful for free. Also, I actually rate it 3.5/5, but I can’t.
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This is NOT Latin
I’m a Latin teacher with a PhD in Classics, and I can tell you that the language supposedly taught in this app IS NOT LATIN.
Many of the words aren’t translated at all—the translation given for grapefruit is just “grapefruit.” There is no Latin word for grapefruit because the Romans didn’t have grapefruits. They also didn’t have bowties, anti-fungal foot powder, or half of the nonsense included in this app.
Even when a word *is* translated, the translation is usually wrong. Bank (as in a place to store money) is translated ripa, which means the bank of a stream or river. Airplane (which the Romans didn’t have) is translated vivamus, which means “let’s live.” And avocado is translated avjyoyu, which is just gibberish. There is no letter J in Latin, and Y is never a consonant.
As best I can tell, the creators of this app just ripped vocab from Quizlet without verifying any of it, because you can find many of the same garbage translations (including avjyoyu) in sets there.
Avoid this one like the plague, or better yet, download it and leave a 1 star review so that the rating will more accurately reflect how horrible this app is.
Many of the words aren’t translated at all—the translation given for grapefruit is just “grapefruit.” There is no Latin word for grapefruit because the Romans didn’t have grapefruits. They also didn’t have bowties, anti-fungal foot powder, or half of the nonsense included in this app.
Even when a word *is* translated, the translation is usually wrong. Bank (as in a place to store money) is translated ripa, which means the bank of a stream or river. Airplane (which the Romans didn’t have) is translated vivamus, which means “let’s live.” And avocado is translated avjyoyu, which is just gibberish. There is no letter J in Latin, and Y is never a consonant.
As best I can tell, the creators of this app just ripped vocab from Quizlet without verifying any of it, because you can find many of the same garbage translations (including avjyoyu) in sets there.
Avoid this one like the plague, or better yet, download it and leave a 1 star review so that the rating will more accurately reflect how horrible this app is.
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The Latin is ok
I took Latin in high school and most Latin on here is different from how I learned it and not really my style but most of it is the same
Do not use this app
This app is full of incorrect translations. I wasted my time, and only found out after clarifying a translation from a reputable source.
Very useful
This app does have much locked up at the beginning, however it isn’t expensive to unlock the words/phrases. Once they are unlocked I find that this app is quite helpful in learning Latin. It shows you the words and has a speaker so you may hear how it is pronounced.
Absolute Trash
they have a lot of stuff locked in the app when I can just look up the words online for free instead of paying some bogus amount of money to learn more words, also the ads are annoying
Very helpful
I find that this app is very helpful and a great tool for someone trying to learn Latin on their own. Trying to pronounce Latin is hard when learning by oneself, but this really helps a lot
Ok
The app was fine I guess though I would like to learn the old Latin the language of the Roman Catholic Church
Piece of crap
After taking a beginner Latin course online for school, I wanted to learn more so I downloaded this. Translations are incorrect, things are misspelled etc. Over all, it's crap and I don't recommend it.
Crap
Most of the translations are wrong. Do not use this app
Not worth the space waste, but could be better.
I like the idea, you have the audience who wants to learn old Latin, however the app design is complicated and crap (took me 5 minutes to find the settings) the voices sound like a bot, and you only get 3 words from each category. If you want the app to actually work it would be better to actually teach the alphabet (it may look normal but letters have different sounds, should be taught first) then basic grammar should be taught next with some basic vocabulary, then the multitudes of Latin’s words.
Also, ads should be a little more discrete.
If your the developer reading this, hire some OCD designer like me.
Only PROS- I can show people how bad app design layout would look like.
Also, ads should be a little more discrete.
If your the developer reading this, hire some OCD designer like me.
Only PROS- I can show people how bad app design layout would look like.
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Response from developer
Thank you for trying our app. The app has different categories such as verbs, pronouns, adjectives, colours, fruits, games, questions etc which give you a vast variety of learning latin language. Every word has audios. Just to add on we would like to say that Learn Latin is a language learning app which makes the base of your language strong and is perfect for beginners or learners via images, audios, games and more. Though we keep your suggestion of importance and we will improve our app.
Don't bother with this app
I'm a high school Latin teacher, and I can confirm that this app has MANY horrible/incorrect translations. Seriously. If you actually want to learn Latin, this app will NOT help you reach that goal. Definitely do NOT spend money on this app.
Response from developer
Thank you for the feedback. We would like to say that Speak Latin is a language learning app which makes the base of your language strong and is perfect for beginners or learners via images, audio, games and more. If you still feel some words are called differently, please contribute, we'll love to hear from you. Looking forward for your reply.
Electric Tester is English is literally the exact same thing in Latin.
This was not a mistake for the two things to be exactly the same, I researched it for a while and found that on multiple different sources in English and Latin that is what it should be.
Cheating, lying, dirty app makers.
This app didn't bother to check the words against a Latin dictionary. They have words like "electric meter" in here and then say the translation into Latin is "electric meter", then they had the speaker repeat the English phrase "electric meter" with a Latin accent.
Ridiculous !!
Ridiculous !!
Response from developer
Dear Gathly, Thanks for the feedback. As per our knowledge "Electric Meter" is "Electrica Meter" in Latin. Please point us to a source which says otherwise. We will make the change.
Need to buy app
If you use the free version you only can access a select few words. You have to buy it to learn how to count and all the colors.
😑😑😑😑😑
I got this app,
Because I wanted to learn Latin. I didn't get it for u, to have me buy a premium to get all of them 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Because I wanted to learn Latin. I didn't get it for u, to have me buy a premium to get all of them 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Spare a few
If you buy the little extent, it's a excellent app!
Don't Get The App
It's better to just not get the app. Most of it requires purchases and there's tons of ads.
