PRAVIEL: Ancient Languages

PRAVIEL

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About this app

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.

Ratings and reviews

I think the navigation and theme is really solid. This is an app I'd probably recommend to most of my peers who are interested in learning greek or latin. The only I'm not a huge fan of is the use of ai graphics when learning. Overall, it's a very good app if you want to learn ancient languages. Unfortunately, I have an adblocker so I'm not able to comment on the frequency of ads that could potentially pop up.

it has all the languages i want, but the issue is, it wont let me use the one i chose. It is unlocked, yet when i click on the first lesson its locked, i have to either do a placement test (which btw doesnt load) or unlock without it, it lets me unlock it without a placement test but then when i go to click on it, it says its preparing the lesson, and then it says error, each and every time. "Unable to start" "LESSON_LOAD_ERROR" (edit: some of the app works, i just tried a different language)

This review might change overtime as I am still using the app. The lessons are quite simple, and I'm glad there's a direct explanation to any error you may do. It looks promising, I'm glad I've finally found a reliable, free source for learning ancient languages. The available languages are many, I can't wait to see how the ones not available yet will be like! I feel like grammar foundations should be added in company with the first few exercises and specified more in the related category.

What’s new

Every course is rebuilt from curated sources and checked before shipping: Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Sanskrit, Egyptian, and Old Church Slavonic, several with new reading and writing tracks. Lessons are fully localized in every language the app interface supports, with pronunciation audio throughout. Plus content fixes and steadier account email.