#mondly

I don’t want to buy Premium account only for testing this app. But if you interesting in it, you can buy Premium for about 8 dollars per month (1 language), 40 dollars per year (1 language) or 40 dollars per year with ‘only today’ discount (34 languages).

Firstly, you can see all Russian words in Latin script, and it isn’t good at all. As for me, it’s better to start studying new language with the alphabet. Really, it will be hard to understand for you in the future, what means “рыба” (ryba) or “мать” (mat’) if you can read it only in Latin script and don’t know ‘ъ’, ‘ь’ and ‘ы’. BUT! You can change Latin into Cyrillic script. There’s a little button in the upper right corner of the screen. So, please, tap it asap if you would like to study Russian in a proper way. And that’s really good, that you can listen to every word in Russian. It sounds clearly, so you won’t have any problems with understanding.

Main topic and daily lessons include 4 game types. The first two types asked you to:

Move the word to the correct answer

Or swipe up/down to the correct answer

Even if you don’t know how to translate this word into Russian, you can choose the correct image and memorize writing and sounding of the correct Russian word.

The 3th game type is to translate the sentence. You have some words, most of them are excess. And it isn’t a difficult task, because you can always tap an unfamiliar word and then find it among proposed words.

And the 4th  game askes you to say Russian phrases. You have just to repeat what you have heard. You can check lesson review. It’s a really amazing and useful thing! You can find there: 

New words 

New phrases 

New verb forms in present, past and future tenses (you can find verb forms in the game “sentence translation”)

Conversation

You can find this game in your main topic’s games. It looks like a chat. You can read it, you can listen to Russian pronunciation. And you have to repeat every phrase in Russian. And I found a defect here. “What is your name” translates like “Как Вас (тебя) зовут?” [Kak vas (tebya) zovut], “Какое у Вас (тебя) имя?” [Kakoe u vas (tebya) imya] or just “Ваше (твоё) имя?” [Vashe (tvoyo) imya]. Name = имя, surname = фамилия [familiya]. And we can’t say in Russian “Как Ваша фамилия?” [Kak vasha familiya], only “Какая у Вас фамилия?” [Kakaya u Vas familiya].

Chatbot

I had never seen chatbots like this. You can reply writing or recording the answer. And this chatbot offers you answer options. You can tap them to hear what to say and then repeat it.

Also, you can turn on|off translation of these options.

But only one chat is free, other topics are included in Premium.

OK, let’s sum up the results.

Is it useful in studying Russian? YES!

Are games interesting? Yes!

What about design of the app? It’s perfect!

Can I listen to Russian pronunciation? Yes.

Can I read in Latin | Cyrillic script? In both, but choose it’s better to choose Cyrillic.

Can I expand my vocabulary? Yes, that’s why this app was created!

Can I improve my pronunciation? Yeeeeeeees

How much Premium costs? About 8 dollars per month (1 language), 40 dollars per year (1 language) or 40 dollars per year with ‘only today’ discount (34 languages).

Can I do a lot with free version? NO!!!

Can I use this app to study other languages? Yes