Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Latin on Duolingo

Recently, Duolingo announced a Latin course.  I'd thought it was supposed to launch in mid-September, but it's live now, so I started it.  (And now I'm doing twenty-three languages on Duolingo.)

Latin is my fourth language (third foreign language).  I had two semesters in college (fall 2011 to spring 2012), and over the last four years, I've been going through my textbook again (much more slowly than I did in the class, in an effort to stick the material more firmly into my brain), so for the first time, when presented with the "Choose your path!" screen, I chose the placement test option.



Unfortunately, I didn't test out of any skills, so I had to start from the beginning anyway.

I'm extremely pleased that the Duolingo course is using the right pronunciation.  Here's a description from the introductory lesson's notes (which I usually never read):