A web app to read Latin texts with inline translations

After finishing DuoLingo’s Latin course, I wanted to read some Latin texts, but I didn't find easy enough texts and going back and forth to a dictionary was cumbersome.

So I created this app for reading basic Latin texts. The idea of the app is to have a Latin text with translation of each word under the paragraph line, which makes it easy to grasp the meaning but also focuses on reading the original Latin text.

It only has one book, if I finish it I might add others.

I used OpenAI to do the translation which looks pretty good for me, with the caveat that... well... I do not know Latin. This approach will not probably work for more complex texts.

This mode of reading works for me, not sure if is of interest to anyone else.

The app source is on GitHub if you are interested:

https://github.com/aleris/duplex-lectio

A couple of details about the dev process:

https://adi.earth/posts/duplex-lectio-read-latin-bilingual/

Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42572538

Thank you for the details: I really like the minimalist UI, well done! And I like to see you sharing the tools that you build to help others learning.

That being said, I'm surprised though, that the translations are GPT generated, so not sure how trustworthy this actually is. Domain foreign users have to be able to trust that learning resource are proof-read / accurate.

Not to say it's worthless, but you may want to note that the translations were done automatically and may contain errors.

Latin’s sentence structure is much more flexible than languages such as English. For example, Latin uses cases for nouns to indicate which is the subject and which is the object, whereas English uses word order. This allows Latin sentences to be constructed in various orders without affecting meaning. It also leads to Latin’s reputation for trying the patience of students such as myself (studied for five years at school many years ago).

The best article on the subject in English is maybe still Ernest Blum's "The New Old Way of Learning Languages" https://theamericanscholar.org/the-new-old-way-of-learning-l... but note that it's quite imperfect. For example, there's no mention of the fact that interlinears went mainstream in France in the century between Locke's efforts and Hamilton's. There's also a subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/interlinear , but you may still have to message a mod to be allowed to post.