Liberation Philology Latin for Android

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I do this like others would do video games. It is an easy way to learn Latin.

This and its Greek counterpart are my two favorites..

Really good for studying AP Latin. Great structure in that it is based off of Latin literature.

This app is only good for vocabulary, with the proviso that the total number of words is about 2,400, whereas you’d really need about 8,000 to read Latin like the newspapers. The selections strike me as arbitrary: the only vegetable is celery, the only silverware is spoon, no items of clothing whatsoever, no food of any kind except Google and the aforesaid celery, no beverages, no trades and professions except carpenter and actor, no seasons, no weather, and only a handful of animal species. And way too many words about warfare. Once the software had been developed, how difficult could it have been to load up a few more thousand words? However, the biggest problem with this app is that the way to learn cases and declensions is counter-intuitive. For example, you’re given an infinitive and then you’re told to pick, say, “3rd pl perf subj pass” out of four verb forms. Or “fut pass neut voc sing” with participles. That doesn’t give you a feel for the language—you’re spending half your time just trying to decipher the code. Much better to give us something like “they should have been called,” which you then can get really quick at picking in Latin. I wrote about this to the developers, and they responded that it would be too difficult to do it like that, and that the app works fine as it is anyhow. I beg to differ, and I’m deducting an extra star for the apparent disinclination to take reasonable feedback to heart.