Learn Russian by talking

Verbsy is a speaking-first Russian tutor you talk to out loud. It listens, answers, corrects what you got wrong, and remembers it for next time.

Russian cases are usually taught as tables and forgotten as tables. Speaking is what turns them into habits, and Verbsy is somewhere to get them wrong without wasting anybody’s time.

Download on the App Store
A Russian conversation in the Verbsy app

What you can practise in Russian

Order food and ask for what you actually want, in something close to the right case.
Talk with relatives or friends who do not speak your language.
Handle a shop, a taxi or a pharmacy in Russian.

How learning Russian with Verbsy works

1
Tell the tutor what you want to be able to do in Russian — order dinner, get through an interview, talk to family. It turns that into a goal with concrete steps.
2
Talk. Put your phone in your pocket and speak through your headphones while you walk or cook. The tutor answers out loud and corrects you as you go.
3
The words you stumbled on become flashcards drawn from your own conversations, and five skills are scored from how you actually spoke.

Russian questions

No. Conversations are spoken, so you can start talking on day one. Reading helps with the flashcards, and picking up the alphabet takes a few days.

Yes, as you speak. Case endings and verbs of motion are the two things Russian learners get wrong for years, so the tutor corrects them in the moment and returns to them later.

Yes. Beginners get slower speech, simpler sentences and more support in a language you already know, and the tutor moves further into Russian as you keep up. You do have to be willing to speak from the first session — that is the whole method.

Verbsy is free to download and your first 30 minutes of conversation are free. That is a one-off allowance rather than a daily one. Verbsy Premium unlocks an hour of conversation a day at the price shown in the app.

No. Verbsy is built to be used with the screen off, through your headphones, while you commute, cook or walk. It is an iPhone app and needs iOS 16.1 or later.

Other languages you can learn

Verbsy teaches 16 languages. Same tutor, same hands-free conversations.

EnglishSpanishFrenchGermanItalianPortugueseDutchMandarin ChineseJapaneseKoreanArabicHindiPolishTurkishVietnamese

Start speaking Russian today

Download Verbsy and have your first Russian conversation in the next five minutes. The first 30 minutes are free.

Download on the App Store