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New: lesson pictures in most courses. Pick a style you like, from photos and simple drawings to frescoes, mosaics and Egyptian tomb paintings, or keep lessons text-only. Screen readers work better throughout the app. Speaking practice marks fewer good answers wrong. Lessons finished offline sync sooner. Fixes for sign-in and slow connections.
Cicero gossiped in Latin. Sappho flirted in Greek. A Roman soldier wrote home begging for warmer socks. The languages we call "ancient" were full of jokes, love, and complaints. And they still are. PRAVIEL teaches them as living languages you can speak, hear, read, and even think in, through short lessons that are genuinely fun. WHY BOTHER? BECAUSE IT'S YOURS Read the Gita, the Gospels, Confucius, or Homer with nobody translating in between. Hear how your own language got its bones, and feel the quiet thrill of cracking a 2,000-year-old line all by yourself. Become one of the few who can read it at all. NOT A DEAD END Call them "dead" if you like. More than half of English is Latin and Greek in disguise, the law and the sciences still keep their vocabulary, and humanities applicants get into medical school at a higher rate than biology majors. The foundations of law, medicine, philosophy, and science were written in these words. The old world is not behind us. It is holding up the new one. LESSONS THAT STICK You build real skill step by step, not a word list that only gets longer. Short, varied lessons mix pronunciation audio, illustrations, vocabulary, matching, sentence-building, dialogue, grammar, and review, so every few minutes leaves you a little more fluent than the last. HEAR IT, SAY IT These languages were made to be spoken. Listen, repeat, and train your ear with audio woven through the whole course, until the words feel like yours to say. READ THE REAL THING Open authentic ancient texts, from Homer to the Psalms to the Bhagavad Gita, and tap any word for its meaning, morphology, and grammar. You keep reading instead of stalling on every second word. TALK TO HISTORY Go past flashcards. Hold a real conversation with a historical persona who answers in their own tongue, with explanations that give you the why, not just the what. ONE APP, MANY WORLDS Classical Latin, Classical and Koine Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Classical Arabic, Middle Egyptian (yes, the hieroglyphs), Biblical Aramaic, Classical Chinese, Sanskrit, Old Church Slavonic, and Middle English, with more on the way. 44+ languages planned. GET IT RIGHT Every lesson is prepared in advance from curated linguistic sources and checked before it ships. Real grammar, real morphology, no guesswork. Spot something off? Report it in one tap. KEEP GOING Streaks, XP, achievements, and smart review: the quiet machinery that carries you to day 100 and makes what you learn actually stay learned. FREE, NO ADS Start as a guest: no account, no setup, no ads. Make one later if you want your progress to follow you across devices. The conversation's been going for five thousand years. Pull up a chair.