I studied Russian for two years.
I could read Pushkin.
Then I got off the plane in Moscow.
Выживи. Учись. Вернись домой.
Survive. Learn. Find your way home.
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Fill the blank. That's the whole game.
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He didn't understand a word of what she said.
What this is
For Russian learners who got past the basics.
Most spaced-repetition apps end where the real work begins. You finish the early lessons, you can read on a page — and the moment a real Russian opens their mouth, you're lost. LinguaSaga is built for that gap.
We thought: what if the cards weren't a checklist, but the world they live in? You're Bobby. You landed in Moscow with too much pride and not enough Russian. Anna is letting you stay. Maxim is supposed to help you find work. The cards you review are the words you'll need next.
It's an SRS engine. There's a game on top. Built for B1 and up — for the version of you that wants the language to actually stick, and wants to have fun while it does.
The vision in short
“Every chapter answers one question: what Russian does Bobby need to survive this moment?”
The engine
The SRS is real. No vaporware.
The game layer is being built. What you can use right now is a cloze SRS engine that runs on real Russian sentences — the same engine the story will be wired into.
Fill the blank. Type it.
No tapping A, B, or C. You see a real Russian sentence with one word removed and you type it. Morph-matched distractors are available for multiple-choice mode if you're just starting out.
Cards return when you need them.
Free Spaced Repetition Scheduling calculates the exact day your memory needs a card back. Not too early, not too late. You review less and remember more.
Built for intermediate and up.
Every sentence is CEFR-tagged. We start where most apps end — at the gap between “I can read it” and “I can use it.” Track where you actually are, not where you hope you are.
Roadmap
Shipped. Building. Coming.
- FSRS spaced-repetition engineMemory algorithm that schedules each card for the day you need it.
- 15,000+ Russian sentences, B1–C1Tatoeba CC-BY corpus, CEFR and grammar-tagged throughout.
- Cloze format — type the missing wordFill the blank. Multiple-choice mode available for warm-up.
- Streaks, XP, achievements, levelingProgression system tied to memory milestones, not lesson counts.
- AI grammar explanations on revealInstant context for why the answer is what it is.
- Act 1 — Moscow: the kommunalkaA walkable world. Bobby's apartment building in Izmailovo, with real rooms and real residents.
- NPC story — Bobby, Anna, MaximCharacters with stakes. Anna who speaks no English. Maxim who's supposed to help you find work.
- Dialogue-embedded Russian challengesWords you need for the next scene, surfaced as cloze cards inside the story.
- Kaliningrad arc (Act 2)The Russian exclave — cut off from mainland Russia, stranger than anywhere Bobby's been.
- Saint Petersburg arc (Act 3)Imperial grandeur, underground culture, the city that never quite fits Russia's story of itself.
- Siberia → Lake Baikal (Acts 4–5)The deep end. Language and landscape both getting harder.
- Reverse mode — Russian → EnglishRead a Russian sentence. Produce the English. For when you're ready to go the other way.
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