Great content, slow interface but quite effective – Babbel – Learn Russian Review

This is the best app I’ve tried for learning Russian, certainly superior to Duolingo. (I recommend supplementing with Tinycards for reinforcement though) My main criticism is that the pace of questions is much slower than seems reasonable. Pronunciation exercises don’t start until you hit the speech bubble; they should auto-roll the first time. There are also big pauses between entering text answers, even beyond hearing them read aloud. No reason the next input can’t overlap with the previous reading. For anyone using multiple apps to learn, its frustrating to have to dawdle through familiar material. Some of the exercises are too easy, in particular the “sort these three words in order”. One suggested improvement: on an error, the app should highlight which characters I got wrong. It can be hard to see whether I screwed up the lesson at hand or just typo’ed a character.
Review by mrflip on Babbel – Learn Russian.