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Getting Started with LinguaMorpha

The shortest path from "just installed" to "running a drill that teaches me something". Each step links to the full explanation, so this page stays a route rather than a manual — the detail lives in Using the app.

1. Install

iPhone & iPad Download LinguaMorpha on the App Store
Mac Download LinguaMorpha on the Mac App Store

There is no account and no sign-in — you can start as soon as it is installed. A 21-day trial of every language starts when you finish the first-launch setup. See The app for platforms, requirements and what unlocking costs.

2. Pick a language

On iPhone and iPad, tap the flag at the top left of the main screen; on the Mac, use the Language menu at the top of the sidebar. Each language is complete on its own, so start with the one you actually want: Latin, Spanish or French. You can switch at any time; your answers stay recorded.

3. Turn on a better voice

The default voices sound robotic and the better ones are free. Download an Enhanced voice for your language — Italian if you study Latin. For Spanish or French, then pick it in LinguaMorpha: open Settings, switch to the tab for your course, and choose Voice. For Latin the app picks the Italian voice itself.

How to do it →

4. Run your first session

A concrete session that is hard to get wrong. Pick the one matching your language.

Latin — declension paradigms

  1. From the main screen, tap Self Study → Nouns.
  2. Under Theory, tap Declension paradigms. You are now looking at the five declensions, each with worked example nouns — puella for the first.
  3. Go back and tap Noun reference under Study, then tap any noun to see its full table of six cases in the singular and plural.
  4. When that feels familiar, go back and tap Decline the noun under Drills. Type the form the question asks for; macrons are checked leniently by default.

Spanish — A1 nouns

  1. Open Settings and, under Study, set Questions per session to 20 (the default).
  2. From the main screen, tap Self Study, then Select word scope, and tick only the A1 level.
  3. Go back and tap Nouns.
  4. Under Drills, tap Noun meaning.
  5. Tap each card to turn it over, then swipe right if you knew it and left if you didn't.

Every answer is recorded on the device. Your next session puts the words you got wrong first, then mixes in words you haven't seen yet.

5. Try the sentence parser (Latin)

Worth seeing on day one:

  1. Open Look up from the main screen's toolbar (on the Mac, from the sidebar).
  2. Switch the toggle from Word to Sentence.
  3. Type or paste a Latin sentence — Caesar's Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs does nicely (it is also offered as a suggestion under the box).
  4. Tap Parse.

Every word comes back as a chip showing its most likely lemma. Tap one to see all its possible parses — lemma, form and translation — and from there open a noun's declension table or a verb's conjugation.

Where to go next

Once the first sessions feel routine:

  • Select word scope — choose the levels and topics Self Study draws on, and widen them as you grow.
  • Practice Sets — ready-made sessions you launch as a unit; run the bundled ones, or build and share your own.
  • My Progress — the heatmap, coverage, accuracy and your weakest words.
  • Using the app — the full tour of every screen.

Help inside the app

Most screens have a Help button or a ? icon that opens a short help sheet about that screen. The User Guide — in the ⋯ menu on iPhone and iPad, under Start in the Mac sidebar — is the same guide as this website, bundled into the app, for when you have no internet connection. And on many menu rows, pressing and holding the row opens a short explanation of that row without leaving the screen.