AnimeLang
Russian, the nineteenth language
Russian joins the list, with its own cast, its own alphabet section, its own voice and its own course. That makes nineteen languages to learn, and nineteen to learn from.
Russian is now one of the languages the app teaches, which brings the list to nineteen: Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian.
What adding a language means here
It isn't putting a name in a list. Russian arrives with everything the others have:
- A cast who speak it, with lines of their own — the bookseller, the grandmother, the priest, the innkeeper.
- Its own alphabet section, since Cyrillic is where most people stall.
- A voice for reading words and examples aloud.
- A course from A1 to C1, with lessons written for it.
Ukrainian and Russian are not one language
They're close. They're not the same, and the app doesn't treat them as the same: separate casts, separate courses, separate voices, separate notebooks. A word you save in one doesn't appear in the other.
If you've been learning Ukrainian and want to add Russian, it's a new pair, started from the language picker. Neither one touches the other.
What comes next
The waitlist asks which language you'd learn, and offers “Something else” to anyone whose language isn't there yet. Those answers are how the next one gets picked — so if you're waiting on Hindi, Vietnamese, Hebrew or Arabic, that's where to say so.