Learning a language is hard. And Russian is a hard language. A stay in Russia, especially here at Liden & Denz, is the perfect way to strongly improve your knowledge, but sometimes it just isn’t enough to reach the level you desire. You know those short blank periods of time in between activities, the moments in which you can’t read, you have no one to speak with, or you are too tired to study even though you’d like to do a brief review before sleeping?
Either you capitulate, or you download one (or all three) of the Mobile Apps I’m about to talk to you about! They are just perfect to fill those moments, so wait no more – discover the best Russian apps!
Duolingo
Active since 2011, this green bird will help you with your Russian, through a catchy interface, lots of medals and a continuously updated database. It shows a current vote of 4,7/5 on Play Store (based on more than 5 million reviews). Duolingo features an introduction to new vocabulary via images, a day-to-day tracking of your progresses, audio both in and out to practice pronunciation and listening, and a wide range of languages to choose from. It is the first app I have used for educational purposes, and the one that helped me refresh my Russian before coming here in Petersburg. Give it a try!
HelloTalk!
If Duolingo is more focused on the written expertise (more “grammatical” if you want), Hello Talk! is totally focused on conversation. How does it work? You find people from the country you want (it is preferable if they also want to learn your native language) and you talk! Both via chat, audio messages, vocal or video calls, there is something for everybody, for each level of shyness! It is also possible to post “Moments”, which are posts that every speaker of a certain language can read. A must-have for each of you, especially to remove the possible discomfort of real-world conversation when you still do not have a great familiarity with the language.
AnkiDroid
The really cool thing about AnkiDroid is the feature through which you manually prepare a database, according to what you know, used to know or would like to know. In this case it surely requires a bit of preparation, but if, for example, after each lesson you insert the new vocabulary and expressions you learned at school, you are sure to remember everything and conserve it ready for use. What most people do, however, is download an already created database, and train with it. There are databases for almost every language, as well as for many more kinds of knowledge, from chess rules to astrology.
I hope this article proves to be helpful. Feel free to comment what is your favorite Russian language app!
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