What's new

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June 2026

22 June — Sharper flashcard example sentences. A flashcard's example sentence now reliably uses — and highlights — the exact word you saved, in grammatical context.
19 June — Open sign-up. No invitation code needed any more — anyone can create an account and start learning straight away.
15 June — Immersive reading shortcuts. The Summarise and Quiz-me buttons in a story's discussion now ask in the language you're learning, so your side of the chat stays in that language too.
15 June — R records your voice in review. The R shortcut during flashcard review now starts and stops recording your pronunciation, instead of replaying the card's audio.
15 June — Cleaner pronoun and article pages. Pronouns like она or sie no longer show a confusing wall of unrelated forms — they read as a clear definition. Determiners and articles like этот or ein now get a proper declension table laid out by gender and case.
15 June — One reply length for every chat. Speak's reply-length control now sits atop the New Conversation card and applies however you start — an open chat or a word-practice session — and remembers your choice next time.
15 June — Your speaking partner asks more questions. Open conversations in Speak now keep the ball in your court — your partner reacts to what you said and usually ends with something for you to answer, so the chat doesn't stall waiting on you.
15 June — Discuss imported texts naturally. Chatting about a text you've imported no longer forces your partner into stilted beginner language — it discusses the text at a natural level, so even a dense or advanced import reads like a real conversation.
15 June — Pick exactly which words to practise. Speak's "Practise your words" now lets you hand-pick words from your flashcard deck — search for them or sort by how well you know them, so you can warm up on easy ones or target the hard ones. The recent and tricky shortcuts are still a tap away.
14 June — Practise your saved words by chatting. Pick "Practise your words" in Speak and your partner works words from your deck into a natural conversation where they fit — each one lights up gold, and gives a little pop the moment you use it. Tap a gold word to see which deck word it came from.
9 June — See your mistakes, fixed. Tap one of your own messages in a conversation to see it corrected inline — your words with the changes shown like a diff, red for what was wrong and green for the fix. If it was already right, you'll get a tick.
7 June — Filter your vocabulary by type. Narrow your saved list to just words or just phrases.
7 June — Stress on your flashcards. Russian flashcards now show where the stress falls on the word, so every review reinforces how to say it, not just what it means.
7 June — Stress marks everywhere you look up a word. Russian stress now shows in dictionary search results, the A–Я browse list, your recently-viewed words and your saved vocabulary list — not just on the word page — so you see how to say a word the moment you find it.
7 June — Conversations name themselves. A conversation now takes its title from your brief, even when your partner speaks first — so your list reads "Let's debate nuclear power", not "New conversation". Tap the ⋯ menu on any conversation in the lobby to rename or delete it.
7 June — Say what you want to talk about. Starting a conversation is now one box: write a brief — "Let's debate nuclear power", "you're a café barista and I'm ordering coffee" — or leave it blank for an open chat. Pick how long you want your partner's replies to be. The old topic and scenario cards are gone.
7 June — Browse your flashcards. A new card browser lists every flashcard you've made in one place. Tap any card to open it — see its illustration, play the example sentence, regenerate it, or delete it.
7 June — Browse the dictionary by letter. The dictionary now has an А–Я (or A–Z) index — tap a letter to page through every word, commonest first — plus a "recently viewed" list to jump back to words you looked up.
6 June — Russian stress marks. Russian word pages now show where the stress falls — on the headword and across every conjugation and declension — so you know how to say a word, not just spell it.
6 June — The right meaning for tricky words. Words spelt the same but meaning different things — like писать (to write / to pee) or замок (lock / castle) — now show every meaning with its own conjugation or declension table, instead of silently picking one at random.
6 June — A richer word page. Tap any word in your vocabulary to see pronunciation, every meaning, inflection tables and example sentences — in a panel that slides in over the list, from the side on desktop and up from the bottom on mobile.

May 2026

Russian verb conjugation. Present-tense verb drills, including the awkward irregulars (мочь, хотеть, есть, бежать), split into regular and irregular focus groups.
A faster start to your day. A new launcher on the Daily page drops you straight into the day's practice.
Streaks. A daily streak ring with a milestone projection, so you can see how far a run of practice days will carry you.
Three more Russian cases. Drills for the dative, instrumental and prepositional cases, singular and plural.

April 2026

Grammar drills. A new way to practise the patterns that trip you up — a visual grammar map and focused, tap-to-answer drills. Launched with Russian cases (accusative, genitive) and German verb conjugation.
One-tap flashcards with images. Turn any word into a flashcard in a single tap, with an illustration generated to help it stick.
Drill mode in conversations. Practise specific grammar while you chat.

March 2026

Bring your own reading. Import your own articles by pasting text, or upload an EPUB to read a whole book at your level.
Chinese. Full support including pinyin display and HSK-graded vocabulary.
Dictionary-backed translations. Tap a word for a richer definition, drawn from a proper dictionary rather than a one-off guess.
Daily goals. Set targets for reading, reviewing and practice.
A redesigned reading library and a new landing page.

February 2026

Spaced-repetition review. A full flashcard review system that schedules each card for the moment you're about to forget it, with audio and example sentences built in.
Conversations. Practise speaking through guided conversations on topics and scenarios you choose — and discuss any story you've read with an AI partner.
Listen mode. Queue up stories and listen hands-free.
Reading that adapts to you. Difficulty levels from beginner to advanced, stories built from current news and topics you care about, and reading settings you control.
Sign in with Google, alongside email.

January 2026

Parlance is born. Generate stories at your level, read them with tap-to-translate and per-word tracking, and hear every sentence read aloud.