Slova is the Russian learning app built around how the language actually works. Vocabulary with cases, conjugation, and grammar you can feel - not flashcards translated into Russian.
No credit card. No streak guilt. Just Russian that sticks.
"My vocabulary is huge and my grammar is atrocious. It makes me embarrassed to even try speaking."r/languagelearning · 155 upvotes
"After 479 days on Duolingo and reaching level 45, I still can't speak Russian."r/russian
"You've just spent a lot of time on this game and still don't know grammar, which is extremely important in Russian."r/russian · top comment
You learned "книга" means book. But in Russian, one noun has 12 forms. Every app ignores this. Native speakers notice immediately.
Every Russian verb has two aspects. Plus prefixes that shift meaning. "I'll read" and "I was reading" are different words entirely.
You can recognize words on a screen. You can't produce them in a sentence. That's not fluency - that's a party trick.
Anki gives you words. Textbooks give you grammar. Nobody gives you both together. Slova teaches words as systems, not dictionary entries.
Every noun gets a full declension table - all 6 cases, singular and plural. Type the correct form. Get it wrong? See the full table and learn the pattern.
Full conjugation tables for present, past, and imperative. Aspect detection included. The system knows which verb forms you struggle with.
AI generates fill-in-the-blank sentences using your vocabulary. Every sentence includes a word-by-word grammatical breakdown. This is how you go from knowing a word to using it.
Type a topic - "airport", "emotions", "cooking" - and get words with stress marks, part of speech, and notes. Or translate any word and add it with one click. No Anki setup friction.
SM2 algorithm tracks every word individually. Words you nail disappear for days. Words you miss come back tomorrow. Production exercises push you further than recognition.
| Duolingo | Anki | Clozemaster | Slova | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case declension training | No | Manual decks | No | Auto-generated |
| Conjugation drills | No | Manual decks | No | Full tables, all tenses |
| Grammar in context | Weak | No | Random sentences | AI sentences from your words |
| Setup effort | None | Hours | Low | None - AI builds your lists |
| Spaced repetition | Basic | Strong | Basic | SM2 per word |
| Production exercises | Minimal | Optional | Yes | Required for mastery |
| Built for Russian | No | No | Partially | Yes |
Every word in its full form. Every verb in both aspects. Every case, drilled until it's automatic.
Start training - it's freeBuilt to learn Russian efficiently - Not to get the streak anxiety.