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August 2026

  • 29 August — Practise a Story from meaning or sound. Rebuild five Story sentences from their translated meaning or from audio, with immediate feedback and missed sentences queued to return.
  • 27 August — Keep learning after a Story. Every Story now has a workspace for artwork, progress, Learning vocabulary and explainable flashcard suggestions, with one grounded next step: keep reading, practise, or start or resume Discussion.
  • 22 August — Recognise Stories and Subject explorations by their artwork. Distinctive illustrations grounded in each Story or complete subject journey now anchor reading surfaces, with deliberate layouts when artwork is unavailable.
  • 15 August — Play a whole exploration or imported work. Start its stories or sections in order as a temporary queue, without changing your saved Listen list.
  • 13 August — Build your own Listen list. Add stories or imported sections while reading, then order and play your fixed list hands-free. Playback survives reloads and stops clearly when audio needs your attention.
  • 9 August — Inspect your review material. Review cards now shows each word, meaning, review sentence and return timing. Open a card to maintain its sentence or illustration, and filter suspended cards to return them to review.
  • 7 August — Reinforce words in your next story. Suggest a rotating set from your exploration, add any Learning word, and edit the selection before generating. Each request starts empty, and natural usage takes priority.
  • 5 August — See the words you are learning across an exploration. Subject explorations list Learning words from surviving stories. Open any word for its dictionary entry, status controls, and flashcard action; the list updates as stories and statuses change.
  • 5 August — Pick up a Subject exploration where you left off. Read surfaces your most recently active exploration with its newest story as the resume point, and History lets you open an exploration from any member story. A Browse all explorations index lists every exploration — title, progress, and last-explored time.

July 2026

  • Complete a Russian sentence. Choose the missing form in sentences from a completed Russian Story, with four endings and grammar help beside each answer.
  • Review has a daily target now, not an empty queue. The Review goal is a number you set (default 20), same as Read — hit it and your streak holds for the day, even if cards are still due.
  • Stress marks on Russian review sentences. The example sentence on a Russian flashcard now shows where the stress falls — Мы сиде́ли в ую́тном кафе́ — so you learn the pronunciation, not just the spelling.
  • Goals moved off the tab bar. The Daily tab is gone. Set your daily goals from the streak menu's Edit goals → link, and find your streak and full-year activity heatmap on /stats. Opening the app now lands you on Read.
  • See what a new-cards pace commits you to. The New cards / day row on /review expands into a forecast of your future daily load — how many reviews a given pace builds up to over 3, 6 or 12 months, coloured green through red as it climbs.
  • Why a verb shows no present tense. A conjugation table for a perfective Russian verb now carries a note explaining it has only future and past, rather than leaving you to guess.
  • Dial new cards down when you're behind. New cards / day on /review goes all the way to 0, so a review backlog can shrink instead of grow. Turn it back up whenever you like.
  • Check the cards you just saved. Save a run of words and one toast counts them up; tap View cards for a side sheet of everything you added, where you can delete any you didn't mean to keep.
  • Continue a story in a new direction. Choose another take, follow a related angle, or describe your own from the reader or exploration workspace. Adjust the level, length and style before generating; each exploration offers one clear continuation flow.
  • Drill a word's paradigm mid-review. Under each table on a flashcard's back, Drill me starts a quick session over that grid's forms — tap the right one, or type or say it. It's just for play: nothing changes when the card is next due.
  • See a word's full paradigm during review. A flashcard's back now carries a collapsible conjugation or declension table — the same one as the word's dictionary page. Tap any form to hear it.
  • Tap any word in a review sentence. The words in a flashcard's example sentence are live — tap one for its definition, synonyms and forms, the same popover you get while reading.
  • Stuck during a discussion? Get a few things to say. Tap the lightbulb beside the mic and Chat drafts three replies one step above your level. Edit one and send it, or say your own.

June 2026

  • Open sign-up. No invitation code needed any more — anyone can create an account and start learning straight away.
  • Declension tables for articles and determiners. Words like этот or ein now get a proper table laid out by gender and case.
  • 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.
  • Filter your vocabulary by type. Narrow your saved list to just words or just phrases.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Discussions name themselves. A Story or imported-section discussion takes its title from the exchange. Open its history to rename or delete any Conversation.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • Streaks. A daily streak ring with a milestone projection, so you can see how far a run of practice days will carry you.

April 2026

  • One-tap flashcards with images. Turn any word into a flashcard in a single tap, with an illustration generated to help it stick.

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. Follow a focused daily plan for reading, reviewing and listening, with one clear next action and targets you can adjust to suit your pace.
  • 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.
  • Readable-content discussions. Discuss any Story or imported section with an AI partner, with persistent history, corrections, vocabulary interaction, text-to-speech, voice input and call mode.
  • 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.