Latin · Familia Romana
Duae Linguae
Learn to read Latin. Without translating it.
Start from scratch and understand Latin sentences built only from what you have learned, from the very first lesson. Clear notes, progressive exercises and targeted reviews gradually lead you towards the classical authors.
The path of a capitulum
Three movements that follow Familia Romana, and three companions always within reach. The app never reproduces Ørberg’s text: it surrounds it with everything a learner working alone goes without.
Lectiōnēs
Short lessons: seven or eight new words each, introduced with picture tiles and then put to work. You open the chapter already knowing it.
Probātiō
Original questions about the chapter’s story — self-contained: everything they ask comes from the lessons.
Lectūra nova
An original text written with only what you have learned: extensive reading you will find nowhere else.
Lectiō
A continuous reading moment to revisit words and forms in context, at your own pace.
Grammatica
A clear note, in English, spells out what the book shows but never states. Off the path: open it whenever you like — mid-lesson, or six months later.
Revīsiō
Reviews accompany everything else: every form you practise comes back on its own at the right time.
Read Caesar in Latin. Without a dictionary, without translating.
Duae Linguae accompanies Familia Romana chapter by chapter. For complete beginners and those coming back after twenty years.
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You never encounter a word you have not been taught. Every exercise and every text uses only what you know at that point.
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Real Latin, written and reviewed by Latinists. Nothing produced by AI is used without being checked, sentence by sentence.
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The app adapts to your mistakes, not your calendar. It brings back the exact form you missed, just as you were about to forget it.
And also:
- macrons always displayed (never marked wrong when omitted)
- an original text in every chapter
- the form and function of every word in one click
- grammar in French and English
- your actual progress, quantified
The book, if you want it
The course follows Hans H. Ørberg’s Familia Romana chapter by chapter — but nothing here requires owning it: the whole path works without the book. If you have it, it is an excellent companion: read the chapter whenever you feel like it. The app never reproduces its text.
Unofficial companion to Familia Romana — not affiliated with Domus Latina.
Καὶ ἡ ἑλληνικὴ γλῶττα;
Ancient Greek is coming, with the same care. Latin first.
Duae Linguae
Who are we?
Duae Linguae is a collaborative project bringing together classics, ancient-language pedagogy and software engineering.
Meet the team and discover our methodLearn to read Latin. Without translating it.