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учим (Russian learning app)
A personal, comic-styled app for learning conversational Russian.
The story
A personal project to get conversational in Russian. It refreshes the Cyrillic alphabet, then follows a fixed A1 to A2 journey of short lessons, with AI-generated practice, spaced review, speaking practice with recorded audio and progress stats, all in a monochrome comic style on the phone.
The clever bit
Lessons generated on the fly by Claude to fit a fixed curriculum spine
What it does
- Cyrillic alphabet refresher
- Unit-by-unit learning journey from A1 to A2
- AI-generated lessons on demand
- Spaced review and practice sessions
- Recorded audio for speaking practice
- Streaks and stats, works offline
- For
- Tom himself (personal learning tool); adult beginners in Russian
- Status
- Working build
- Works with
- Anthropic Claude API · Supabase (auth, database, storage)
- Built with
- Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS · Supabase
Next build
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