Cura: Learn Russian

Having a hard time learning Russian? You can sound out Cyrillic, but it still takes you forever to work out what a word actually means? CURA, the Commonly Used Russian Assistant, is built around one simple idea: there is a difference between reading a word and knowing it, and CURA closes that gap. With Sight Learning, a Russian word flashes on screen for a fraction of a second and then disappears, and you pick what you saw. Because there is no time to sound it out, recognition has to become automatic, which is exactly what fluent reading feels like, and you can choose from five speeds in either direction. New in this version are Flash Cards: study any word with two-sided cards scheduled by spaced repetition, so each one returns just before you would forget it and your review time goes where it is actually needed instead of drilling words you already know. Just getting started? The Cyrillic Alphabet trainer teaches all 33 letters, sorted by how much trouble they tend to cause, with special attention to the false friends that look like Latin letters but sound completely different. CURA also includes 300 of the most common Russian words across three frequency tiers, each with its stress marked and a romanization, a Problem Words mode that resurfaces the vocabulary you keep missing, and daily streaks, stars, and progress tracking to keep you coming back. Whether you are learning your first Cyrillic letter or sharpening vocabulary you already half-know, CURA turns reading Russian into knowing Russian.