🇻🇦 The best websites for learning Latin

A serialised Latin novella set in a fictional town, illustrated with Lego scenes, with audio and vocabulary support for each episode. The pictures do what a translation would otherwise have to, which keeps you reading Latin instead of decoding it. Pairs naturally with Ørberg — same principle, different subject matter, and it is free.

Full commentaries on Caesar, Ovid, Sulpicia and others, with running vocabulary, grammatical notes and often audio. The core vocabulary list — the thousand-odd words covering most of classical Latin — is worth an afternoon on its own. Free and openly licensed, from a US liberal arts college.

Daniel Pettersson's site collects audio of Latin prose read at speaking pace, essays about learning Latin, and a searchable dictionary that includes Latin-to-Latin definitions. The audio is the part nothing else replaces: Latin read aloud well is rare, and hearing it is what turns reading from decoding into reading. Some material is behind a subscription.

Tufts's classics library, where every word of every text is linked to a morphological analysis and a dictionary. For reading unadapted Latin this is the difference between fifteen minutes a sentence and two — you look words up without losing the thread. The interface is twenty years old and it does not matter.

Useful precisely because it is modern: reading about computers or football in Latin forces the language into the present tense of your own life, which classical texts never do. Quality varies and the neologisms are sometimes invented on the spot — treat it as reading practice, not as an authority on usage.

A deliberately bare archive of Latin texts as unadorned HTML — nothing but the Latin. That is its virtue and its limit: it is the fastest place to find a passage and the worst place to read one you cannot already handle. Pair it with Logeion in another tab.

Over 100 language editions; the English edition alone has millions of entries covering hundreds of languages, with IPA, declension and conjugation tables, etymologies and usage notes that commercial apps usually paywall. The etymology sections are quietly one of the best vocabulary-retention tools available. Being crowd-sourced, coverage is uneven and rare entries can be wrong — cross-check anything unusual against a native-language dictionary.

Type a word or phrase and it plays back real YouTube clips of people saying it in context, across 25 languages plus sign languages, so you get natural intonation and regional variation rather than an isolated dictionary recording. Free, donation-supported, no account needed. Complements Forvo: Forvo for single words, YouGlish for phrases and prosody.

A detailed staged roadmap for acquiring a language through massive comprehensible input — what to do at each stage, when to start output, how to mine sentences — with a free tracker, starter courses and an active Discord. The roadmap and community are free; vocabulary decks, advanced courses and coaching are paid. It is opinionated to the point of dogma about avoiding early output and translation, so take the framework and ignore the purity rules if they do not fit your goals.

A collaborative, Creative Commons-licensed corpus you can search for real usage of a word or download in bulk to build your own decks. It is the raw material behind Clozemaster and countless Anki decks rather than a study tool in itself. Sentences are contributed by volunteers, so quality and naturalness vary — prefer sentences from native contributors and cross-check anything surprising.

A browser extension plus web reader covering 100+ languages: click a word or drag across a phrase, get an inline translation, and it becomes a flashcard automatically. The free tier gives unlimited single-word translations but caps phrases and AI explanations at 10 a day; Premium is $6/month. Simpler and cheaper than LingQ or Migaku if all you want is frictionless reading of articles and ebooks.