PRAVIEL: Ancient Languages

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. Feel the quiet thrill of cracking a 2,000-year-old line all by yourself.

LESSONS THAT STICK
Short, varied lessons mix pronunciation audio, illustrations, vocabulary, matching, sentence-building, dialogue, grammar, and review. You build real skill step by step — not a word list that only gets longer.

HEAR IT, SAY IT
These languages were made to be spoken. Listen, repeat, and train your ear with audio woven through the whole course.

READ THE REAL THING
Open authentic ancient texts and tap any word for its meaning, morphology, and grammar — so you keep reading instead of stalling on every second word.

TALK TO HISTORY
Go past flashcards: hold a real conversation with historical personas, with explanations that give you the why, not just the what.

ONE APP, MANY WORLDS
Classical Latin, Koine and Classical Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Sanskrit, Classical Chinese, Classical Arabic, Aramaic, Old Church Slavonic, Middle English, Middle Egyptian — and 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.

Recent changes:
New: Latin and Classical Greek Level 4, Koine Level 2, and Egyptian Levels 2 and 3 in hieroglyphs. Read Caesar, Cicero, Plato and more in the Library. Resume a lesson where you left off. Typed answers show which letters were off. Listen and repeat on word cards and hear every alphabet letter. Add friends by username. Smaller audio downloads and many fixes.