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Getting Started with LinguaMorpha

This page gets you from "just installed" to "running your first useful drill" in a few minutes. For a deeper tour of every screen, see the User Guide.

1. Install the app

LinguaMorpha is available for iPhone and iPad.

Download on the App Store

Requirements: iOS 16.0 or later.

LinguaMorpha stores all your data on the device — there is no account to create, no sign-in, and no sync to the cloud. You can start using it the moment it finishes installing.

2. Pick your module

LinguaMorpha v1.0 ships with two modules:

  • Latin — the flagship. All five declensions, all five adjective patterns, comparative + superlative, macron-accurate answer checking, sentence parser, concordance drill.
  • Spanish — the first additional module. Full verb conjugation, noun gender + plurals, phrases, and words.
  • French — full verb conjugation across every tense, noun gender + plurals, irregulars colour-coded as in Spanish.

Tap the flag icon on the top-left of the home screen to switch between them. Your study history is kept separately per module — switching back and forth doesn't lose anything.

Don't see Italian / Portuguese? Those arrive in v1.4 / v1.6 as free updates.

LinguaMorpha speaks Spanish words and forms aloud using iOS speech synthesis. iOS includes Spanish voices at three quality levels — Standard (installed by default, sounds robotic), Enhanced, and Premium. The Enhanced and Premium voices are free to download and sound dramatically better.

  1. Open the iOS Settings app.
  2. Go to Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices → Spanish.
  3. Choose a region (Spain, Mexico, Latin America, …) and tap the download icon next to any voice marked Enhanced or Premium. The download is a few hundred megabytes — use Wi-Fi.
  4. Back in LinguaMorpha, tap the gear icon → Speech and pick the voice you just downloaded.

Latin doesn't have a native iOS TTS voice in v1.0 — Apple hasn't built one. An approximate classical pronunciation mode (Italian voice + transformation layer) is scheduled for v1.5. For v1.0, Latin is read, not spoken.

4. Run your first session

Here's a concrete first session that's hard to get wrong. Pick the one that matches your active module.

Latin — declension paradigms

  1. From the home screen, tap Self Study → Nouns.
  2. Tap Declension paradigms under Study. You're now looking at the five declensions side by side.
  3. Tap any noun (e.g. puella) to see its full 6-case × 2-number paradigm.
  4. Once that feels familiar, go back and tap Decline the noun under Test. Type the form the prompt asks for; the answer-check is lenient on macrons by default.

Spanish — A1 nouns

  1. From the home screen, tap Self Study → Nouns.
  2. Tap Select Nouns and set CEFR Level to A1.
  3. Set Session Size to 20.
  4. Go back and tap Word Meanings Flashcard.
  5. Work through the flashcards. After each card, rate yourself Correct, Difficult, or Incorrect.

Every answer is recorded locally. The next session will give you 20 more — prioritising words you haven't seen, then words you got wrong.

5. Try the sentence parser (Latin)

The killer Latin feature, worth seeing in your first session:

  1. Self Study → Identify a Form.
  2. Switch the mode toggle from Word to Sentence.
  3. Paste any Latin sentence — Caesar's Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs works perfectly.
  4. Tap Parse.

Every word becomes a chip showing its lemma, case, number, gender, tense, voice, and translation. Tap any chip to jump to that word's full paradigm.

6. Filter precisely as you grow

Once basic vocabulary feels solid, broaden your selection step by step.

Latin: in Select declensions, restrict to one declension at a time and master each paradigm before moving on. Same for Select pronoun classes (Personal → Demonstrative → Relative → Interrogative is the textbook order) and Select adjective patterns.

Spanish: open Self Study → Verbs → Select Verbs, switch to the Verb Groups tab, and tick Regular -ar only. Set the tense filter to Present. Get the regular present tense automatic before adding stem-changing or irregular groups.

7. Check your progress

After a week or two of regular practice, tap the chart icon on the top left of the main screen to open My Progress. You'll see a calendar-month activity heatmap (darker squares = more answers that day), a Coverage view showing how much of each catalogue you've touched, an Accuracy breakdown by exercise type and tense and verb group, a Word Performance list of weakest words to focus on, and time-series Trends.

You can also share a full progress report as a PDF from the share icon on that screen. See the My Progress page for the full tour.

(Per-module performance tracking is fully wired for Spanish in v1.0; Latin drills work the same way but write to the performance database in a follow-up release.)

Next Steps

Help inside the app

Most screens have a ? icon at the top right that opens a short, screen-specific help sheet. A book icon on the home screen opens the full user guide — the same content as this website, but bundled into the app so it works offline. And on most controls, a long-press gives you a quick in-place explanation without leaving the screen.