Loquentes

How to Use Loquentes

Loquentes is morphology drilling by writing: you reproduce full paradigms from memory, one repetition at a time, until the forms are automatic. No account, no server — progress lives in this browser’s local storage.

The workflow

  1. Choose a language on the front page — Ancient Greek, Latin, or Old English.
  2. Choose a section from the morphology catalog (a declension, a verb system, …). A section is one drill set: one or more model paradigms.
  3. Type each paradigm horizontally on one line, forms left to right separated by spaces, in the order shown above the writing block.
  4. Enter moves to the next paradigm’s line.
  5. Ctrl+Enter (or the Check button) checks the whole set. Every form is graded in place: green when correct, dark red when wrong. The feedback list names the failing slots without revealing the answers.
  6. Fix the wrong forms from memory and check again. Only a completely clean set — every form right, nothing missing, nothing extra — counts as one repetition.
  7. Repeat until the counter reaches the target (200 by default, adjustable per drill in Options).

Semicolons (; or the Greek ;) may separate forms instead of spaces, and extra blank lines are ignored. Show answers fills in the set for study, but that repetition cannot count. Progress is saved automatically in the browser; the Progress page shows all three languages and can export, import, or reset it.

Typing Greek

Greek drills transliterate automatically: you type ordinary QWERTY and the block writes Greek (dead keys give breathings and iota subscripts). Pitch accents are never graded; breathings and iota subscripts are. Noun drills default to bare forms — an Articles toggle (in Options on the drill page) additionally requires the definite article where the source prints it. See Greek Keyboard Help for the full letter map.

Typing Latin

Latin drills use your plain keyboard — no transliteration, no macrons required. Compound forms such as laudatus sum count as a single form.

Typing Old English

Old English drills use your ordinary keyboard with prefix shortcuts for special characters: type ;a for æ, ;t for þ, ;d for ð, ;o for ǫ, and ;; for a literal semicolon. Shift gives capital forms (;A → Æ, ;T → Þ, ;D → Ð). Direct Unicode typing and copy-paste are also supported.

Thorn (þ) and eth (ð) are fully interchangeable. See Old English Keyboard Help for the complete letter map and typing guide.