Learn Russian Language & Vocab User Reviews

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Just a few minutes using it but looks good

Pretty cool so far.

Really good!

What I love the most about the app is that isn’t tacky and changes approaches in learning, looks innovative and I really enjoy it. However what really put me off is your assortment of “native languages” - you have very few offered. Now I have to learn Russian through English, while my native language is a South Slavic language and therefore it would be SO MUCH EASIER for me to learn it through Croatian/Serbian, rather than English..
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Response from developer

Hi, Thanks for playing Drops and sending us positive feedback! It's awesome to hear you love the app! We constantly try to improve the app, including the native languages. We appreciate your suggestion regarding Croatian / Serbian. Let us know if there's anything else you think we should refine or fix!

Amazing

I love this app so much. Not only is it super effective conceptually I find compared to other language apps that have free and paid versions drops isn’t as pushy about making people pay and treats it’s free users fairly which really just makes me want to pay once I’m able to.

Response from developer

Hi, Thanks for playing Drops, it's awesome to hear you love it! The 5-star review is much appreciated! :)

Previously critical about previous update—now I love it

I have been using Drops for months now to learn Russian and I love how this app became a part of my routine effortlessly. I was critical of the previous update because I thought it sped things up too quickly, which I wrote about. However, with this new update, they resolved the issue I had. This shows that they really pay attention to their consumers which is very admirable. I truly thank them for paying attention!

My only suggestion that I have left is a more efficient way to select the words I want to study in the Touch Word Dojo. That being said, I am truly appreciative of this app and the efforts the developers make to this product as great as it can be. I am excited to see what they will come with next.
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Response from developer

Hi, Thanks for playing Drops and sorry for the inconveniences. We will investigate the issue with the speed. We are constantly improving our system to provide you with the best experience for our users. Rest assured we will take your suggestions into consideration and see what we can do. Thanks again for your feedback and we are looking forward to rolling out more features for you soon. Again, thanks for writing, enjoy your daily Drops! ;) With appreciation, Daniel co-founder of Drops

Fun and easy way to learn

The App makes learning into a game. Lessons are short, engaging and fun. I like racing the timer and seeing how far I can get on the progress bar for each lesson. Started with the free app and quickly purchased the full app. At the end of each session it shows you your accuracy rate and words you just reviewed. You can even see how many words you’ve learned vs how many are available. I love it!
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Choice of vocab bizarre

Is no one going to mention the weird choice of vocab? Learning ‘i slip’ and ‘i fart’ before things like ‘i can’ or ‘i want’ is baffling- same with nouns like ‘traffic sign’ and ‘outhouse’ before useful words like menu, supermarket, atm, hotel...!

I’ve tried changing the learner type to figure out where the really useful words are but really- every visitor to another country regardless of type needs things like hotel, pharmacy, toilet waaay before they need plunger!!

I kind of like the off the wall choice of words and it does make me laugh, it just goes a bit far and is frustrating because it is a great little app and works much better than memrise imo- it’s just memrise went for a sane list of words. You need to add more genuine essentials upfront.
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Response from developer

Hey, Thanks so much for your feedback. We are constantly improving our system to provide you with the best experience for our users. Rest assured we will take your suggestion into consideration, discuss it with the team and see what we can do :) Thanks again for your feedback and we are looking forward to rolling out more features for you soon. Again, thanks for writing, enjoy your daily Drops! ;) With appreciation, Daniel co-founder of Drops

Great learning tool

I think drops is a great learning tool and I would recommend it anyone who is trying to learn a new language but could do with some sort of placement test for intermediates because I sometimes find myself learning things I have already covered but overall greatly appreciate how hard the developers have worked on this for us all
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Response from developer

Hi, Thanks for playing Drops, we're happy to hear you would recommend it to others! We constantly keep improving the app and the content, and your suggestion is much appreciated! Is there anything else you think we should refine? Is there anything else we can do to change your rating to a 5-star? :)

Great app for absolute beginners

For quite some time, I was using the free version. Only being able to do a five minute increments, I thought I was and his advantage. However over a short period time, I was learning so much I wanted to do more than just one five minute increment every 10 hours. So I bit the bullet and purchased the app. I am so happy I did. I have been trying to learn Russian and this has been one app that I truly use every single day on this journey. I’m 40 years old and I’m happy to say that I am learning a second language thanks to this app.
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Very Helpful

Dear Readers,
Unlike Memrise, Drops is very helpful learning words. Memrise helps you memrise letters of the alphabet ( If you pay a terribly big fee you can learn some words ) which would be handy if you were to live in Russia and needed to know all of the alphabet. But as I am only going to Russia for a holiday, Drops is much better at teaching me some words that are important to understand. I personally recommend this to anyone trying to learn Russian as it has surely helped me.
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Response from developer

Hi, Thanks for choosing Drops to learn Russian, and writing such a nice review! Hope your holiday in Russia was a blast! If there's anything you think we should improve on the app, let us know!

Novel

Would be handy if you provide word search in the vocabulary page

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