Real voice conversations with Cicero, Seneca, Plautus and dozens of figures of ancient Rome. They listen, understand and answer you in Latin — you choose between the Ecclesiastical pronunciation of the living tradition and the restored classical one (in beta) — with the patience of a good teacher, at any hour.
«Latine loqui discitur Latine loquendo.»
Cicero
Seneca
Caesar
Plautus
Tullia
Cornelia
Scipio
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Aurelianus
Spartacus
Clodia
Cleopatra
Messalina
Poppaea
Hypatia
Chloe
Thais
ErasmusOver 160 characters — statesmen, poets, philosophers, women of Rome, ordinary people — each with their own voice, temperament and life story, rigorously reconstructed.
No multiple-choice drills, no flashcards: a real conversation, as with a native speaker — because the best way to learn to speak is to speak.
The patient old schoolmaster to begin, Plautus to laugh, Cicero to debate, Seneca to reflect. Three levels: from your first sentences to the full Latin of the authors.
Even just «Salve!» will do. They understand you even when you stumble — and correct you the way good teachers do: by rephrasing, never by scolding. Under every reply, a transcript of what they understood.
A spoken reply in Ecclesiastical pronunciation — or in the restored classical one, in beta — at the pace you choose. Replay it, slow it down, ask «quid significat?». And next time, they will remember you and your conversations.
Whether you start from scratch or read Tacitus straight through, there's a way for you. All three with the same voice, the same pronunciation, the same characters.
The new words you meet while speaking become yours: every term you hear in conversation is collected and, with a little guided review from Calculator, settles into memory. The way not to forget what you learn, by speaking.
Free conversation with over 160 characters of Rome. Choose your interlocutor, press the microphone and talk about whatever you like, at your level: they understand you even when you make mistakes, answer you in Latin and correct you by rephrasing, never scolding. And next time they remember you and your conversations.
Themed journeys across the map of the Roman world, with increasing difficulty. Stage after stage you talk with a character, complete small conversation missions and unlock the next one along the road. At the journey's end, a laudatio written for you. They're the best way never to stop.
Sermocinando was born inside the living-Latin movement, built by people who have spoken and taught Latin for years.
The English word engine comes from the Latin ingenium — we built the original. INGENIVM is our proprietary language engine, the fruit of months of philological work: it governs pronunciation and stress (by the penultimate law), the historical registers and the characters’ memory, on top of state-of-the-art generative AI. You choose the pronunciation: Ecclesiastical, the living voice of the tradition, or the restored classical one, in beta. You decide at first launch and can change it any time in the Settings.
Each figure knows their own life and works — and knows nothing of what came after. Ask Caesar about his Rhine bridge: he answers. About the Ides of March, he cannot: for him they have not happened yet.
Three calibrated levels (Tiro, Discipulus, Peritus), correction by recasting, simplified paraphrases on request: the principles of language acquisition applied to Latin.
No social accounts, no tracking, no leaderboards. Your voice is used only to generate the reply, then deleted. People learn better without judges.
A GrecoLatinoVivo project — the school of spoken classical languages.
The native iPhone app: the same characters, the same voice, wherever you are. Your progress — words, journeys, characters — follows you between phone and web.
Yes: the Tiro level is built for near-beginners. The old schoolmaster Aurelianus speaks slowly, with simple words, repeats himself, and asks one question at a time. When you slip, nobody rubs it in: he recasts the correct sentence and the conversation moves on. It is the opposite of an exam.
You choose: at first launch you pick between the Ecclesiastical pronunciation — the Church’s living tradition, the one the voices render best — and the restored classical one, honestly labelled beta, because perfect vowel quantities remain an open frontier for any speech synthesis. You can switch any time in the Settings; stress follows the penultimate law in both.
Every character carries a rigorous biographical dossier: dates, works, family, events — and an impassable time boundary (Cicero does not know the Philippics; Caesar knows nothing of the Ides). When they don’t know something, they say so. No invented dates.
It is processed by INGENIVM only to generate the reply, then deleted: never stored, never reused. No cookies, no tracking, no ads. Your statistics stay in your browser.
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