Learn Russian
Russian, with a hook on every word.
False friends in the alphabet are the first trap. Cyrillic letters get their own shape mnemonics before any vocabulary.
вода
voda
water
sounds like vodka
A bottle labelled VODKA that turns out to hold only water, to everyone's disappointment. Voda.
Sample hooks
What the first words look like
вода
voda
water
sounds like vodka
A bottle labelled VODKA that turns out to hold only water, to everyone's disappointment. Voda.
дом
dom
house, home
sounds like dome
A house with a DOME so large the house is only a doorway underneath it. Dom.
книга
kniga
book
sounds like knee gah
A book so heavy it lands on your KNEE and you say GAH. Kniga.
собака
sobaka
dog
sounds like sow bark a
A SOW that BARKS like a dog and will not stop. Sobaka.
кошка
koshka
cat
sounds like cosh ka
A cat that carries a small COSH and taps you awake at five in the morning. Koshka.
хлеб
khleb
bread
sounds like clebb
A loaf so hard it goes CLEB when you drop it on the table. Khleb.
рука
ruka
hand, arm
sounds like rook a
A ROOK lands on your outstretched arm and refuses to leave. Ruka is hand and arm both.
город
gorod
city
sounds like gorod
A city guarded by a GUARD at every corner, all of them asleep. Gorod.
деньги
dengi
money
sounds like den gee
Money kept in a fox's DEN, guarded by a horse saying GEE. Dengi.
A story in Russian
What you will be reading first.
Скамейка у рекиA1
Tap an underlined word. In the app the same tap also tells you whether that word is already in your collection and when it is next due.
Russian, specifically
What about the alphabet?
Every entry carries a transliteration, and the first trap is the letters that look Latin and are not. Those are worth a hook of their own before any vocabulary.
How many words are loaded for Russian?
111 to start, chosen by frequency, each with a gloss, a part of speech, an example sentence and a hook. You can import your own list on top at any point.
Is the audio real Russian?
The audio uses the voices installed on your own device, picked for Russian and set per sentence. On a modern phone that is good. On some desktops it is only adequate, and recorded native audio is the next content investment.
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