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Legentibus Latin app
« on: June 06, 2025, 07:19:15 PM »
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    • https://legentibus.com/

    Wondering if anyone has tried this for learning Latin and, if so, what do you think of it?
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    Re: Legentibus Latin app
    « Reply #1 on: June 06, 2025, 08:31:46 PM »
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    • Seems as thought it might be OK.  It's true that very few who study Latin ever develop true fluency, and I think it's because people get mired in the grammatical details.

    I believe that the best way to immerse oneself in Latin would be to listen to the Latin Vulgate, especially the New Testament, since you're familiar with the stories already and so that would make it very effective for you to pick the meanings of unfamiliar words out of the familiar context.
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    Re: Legentibus Latin app
    « Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 05:45:27 AM »
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    • Quote from: Ladislaus on June 06, 2025, 08:31:46 PM
    Seems as thought it might be OK.  It's true that very few who study Latin ever develop true fluency, and I think it's because people get mired in the grammatical details.

    I believe that the best way to immerse oneself in Latin would be to listen to the Latin Vulgate, especially the New Testament, since you're familiar with the stories already and so that would make it very effective for you to pick the meanings of unfamiliar words out of the familiar context.
    Thank you, that is a good idea! How does the Vulgate Latin compare with Ecclesiastical Latin? Is their different pronunciation?
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    Re: Legentibus Latin app
    « Reply #3 on: Yesterday at 06:09:33 AM »
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    • Quote from: WorldsAway on Yesterday at 05:45:27 AM
    Thank you, that is a good idea! How does the Vulgate Latin compare with Ecclesiastical Latin? Is their different pronunciation?

    Well, the pronunciation of the Vulgate would have varied over time, where earlier on it would have been more "Classical" whereas later more "Medieval" ... and of course with much variation in different parts of the world.

    Here's actually a great rendition of the New Testament.  Now, he speaks really fast (which is OK for me, but might be difficult for beginners), and he does pronounce "J" in the Spanish way as "H". Looks like if you right-click each link, and do "Save as", you can save them out as .mp3 and then slow them down with some other MP3 software (one built into Windows allows you to slow stuff down if you want ... or speed it up).

    https://www.wordproject.org/bibles/audio/41_latin/index.htm
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    Re: Legentibus Latin app
    « Reply #4 on: Yesterday at 06:18:58 AM »
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    • I wonder if there's some AI voice synthesizer program out there that could be trained to pronounce Latin (in both ecclesiastical and classical), where you can then just feed text into it and let it rip.
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    Re: Legentibus Latin app
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    • Quote from: Ladislaus on June 06, 2025, 08:31:46 PM
    Seems as thought it might be OK.  It's true that very few who study Latin ever develop true fluency, and I think it's because people get mired in the grammatical details.

    I believe that the best way to immerse oneself in Latin would be to listen to the Latin Vulgate, especially the New Testament, since you're familiar with the stories already and so that would make it very effective for you to pick the meanings of unfamiliar words out of the familiar context.

    I have the Roman Martyrologies in Latin and English. There is so much good repetition even on one day that before long a lot of vocabulary is learned as well as verb construction. Then there are the graces received from the spiritual and devotional part of it. 
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    Re: Legentibus Latin app
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    • Quote from: Ladislaus on Yesterday at 06:09:33 AM
    Well, the pronunciation of the Vulgate would have varied over time, where earlier on it would have been more "Classical" whereas later more "Medieval" ... and of course with much variation in different parts of the world.

    Here's actually a great rendition of the New Testament.  Now, he speaks really fast (which is OK for me, but might be difficult for beginners), and he does pronounce "J" in the Spanish way as "H". Looks like if you right-click each link, and do "Save as", you can save them out as .mp3 and then slow them down with some other MP3 software (one built into Windows allows you to slow stuff down if you want ... or speed it up).

    https://www.wordproject.org/bibles/audio/41_latin/index.htm
    Appreciate it, Lad. That is a little fast for me but I'll slow it down and give it a go, probably read a section in English then listen to the Latin
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