What is it?
The Sentence Quiz is the heart of Lapicida. Instead of drilling vocabulary and forms in isolation, you analyse whole Latin sentences — element by element, just as you would in an exam. The sentences draw on Classical Latin and on the continuous Lapicida story (Memoria), so grammar and narrative come together. You then read genuine original texts by Cicero and Caesar in the Reading section.
What do you practise here?
Recognising sentence elements reliably — subject, predicate, objects, adverbials — and the major constructions that trip you up in translation: the ACI, the NCI, the ablative absolute, the subjunctive in subordinate clauses, the passive. More than 15 areas that build on one another, from level L3 to L27.
How do you practise here?
A Latin sentence appears. You identify its elements — after your answer the sentence is colour-coded, and you see at once what you missed. You choose how you practise:
- Two modes: Independent (all options at once) or Guided (step by step through each element).
- Session length: 4, 8 or 12 cards — or by time: 5, 10 or 15 minutes.
- Tense filter and free practice for targeted revision.
Features
- 15 areas that build on one another (L3–L27): from subject-and-predicate through to the passive.
- 7-box system (spaced repetition): what you know comes up less often, what wobbles more often.
- Sequential unlocking: the next area opens only once the previous one is secure (80% from box 5).
- Intelligent distractors that get trickier as the box rises — real thinking instead of guessing.
- All tenses, balanced objects and persons — the full range of constructions and sentence patterns.
What does the support look like?
You correct your own mistakes — you only move on once you have the right answer. A slip doesn’t cost you the box straight away: the first mistake leaves it in place, only the second genuine error demotes it (soft reset). Mistakes don’t lead to red crosses but to a targeted explanation: what the form or the element reveals, and what to watch for next time. In guided mode, short micro-hints lead you step by step — right where you’re stuck, not as a long lecture up front.
How does the dyslexia support work here?
Every sentence element has a fixed colour throughout the app — the subject always blue, the predicate always red, the accusative object indigo. This visual anchor works before the word is even read, and helps especially with dyslexia. On top of that, if you like: the OpenDyslexic font, wider letter spacing, audio, and a calm, pressure-free pace. A careless slip never throws you back to zero.
How do you learn here?
Technically: A 7-box system based on the Leitner principle controls which sentences you see again and when — difficult ones more often, secure ones less. Your response time feeds in as a learning indicator.
Scientifically: Actively recalling a sentence element in context anchors it roughly twice as strongly as simply re-reading it — the testing effect (Roediger & Karpicke, 2006). And grammar within a real sentence eases working memory more than an isolated table does (Cognitive Load Theory, Sweller, 1988). That is exactly what the Sentence Quiz is built on.
Frequently asked questions
Do I have to work through the areas in order?
Yes — each area unlocks only once the previous one is secure. That way you build up safely, without gaps. Within an unlocked area you practise freely.
Is the Sentence Quiz free?
The starting point (subject & predicate) is free forever. The full version unlocks all 15 areas.
Try it now
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