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The ads aren't disruptive - they appear at it end of a lesson, so that's well timed. Overall, the app is effective. However, I wish the Cyrillic characters included both upper and lower case (these are quite different in some cases). The Roman phonetic notation is a little confusing - i.e. both e & ё are phonetically described as "e", even though ё makes a "yo" sound and e makes a "ie"/"iye" sound. I'm not sure why й is described as "j", though that may just be ignorance.
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Waldir Pimenta
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The drops concept is fun, easy to use and effective for learning vocabulary and pronunciation. A couple things I wish were different are the voice, which I wish I could change to a less high-pitched one, and the spelling exercises, which don't split the words in their actual syllables, making things unnecessarily confusing. The two-day rule notifications are a good idea but they seem to have a bug where I keep getting them occasionally even though I haven't skipped a day in several weeks now.
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Well this app is great for learning nouns, not so much grammar and stuff. But one app can't do everything. The five minute limit is kind of annoying, every ten hours you get five minutes. I do like the color schemes and stuff, though; very visually appealing. I also like how it slowly teaches you a word, first with the translation, then with a picture, then no translation, etc.
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