A Taste Of Russian – Learn Real Russian App app for iPhone and iPad
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Developer: Wizzard Media
8.99 USD
Current version: 2.2.2, last update: 7 years agoFirst release : 09 Nov 2009
App size: 20.84 Mb
Discover real Russian you wont find in boring textbooks with the latest episodes of the “A Taste of Russian” audio lessons. Besides access to the show you get PDF Guides, which include:
Full transcripts - covering clear explanations of slang and idioms used by real people
Vocabulary with extra example sentences
(Please note, not all features are available for all episodes. This app is compatible with the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch)
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Very nice podcasts
Very nice podcasts
Very nice podcasts
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The app is a wrapper for the content on torpod.com. At that site you’ll find a free service and a premium service. I thought for $9 I would get at least sth more than the free service but, alas, you have to pay a monthly subscription (which I basically never do for any service) in addition to the $9 for everything. And even for the free content, the app is not executed that well: you only get a partial transcript and then a link to a pdf of the full transcript that will not be stored in the app once you close it; so if you want to download your content (i.e. to not have to reply on an internet connection in order to view it), you need to leave the app on in your iPhone indefinitely. The app is not altogether valueless - you can download the audio and, as I said, you get a partial transcript for some (all?) of the podcasts, but if I could go back I’d have saved $9 and just downloaded the audio as free mp3s. Hope the developers have a look at this and think of ways to improve it - I will never subscribe to their monthly payroll (I do not like subscription models in general) but I would be happy to pay $0.5 - $1 per episode to have permanent access to its full transcript!
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The app is a wrapper for the content on torpod.com. At that site you’ll find a free service and a premium service. I thought for $9 I would get at least sth more than the free service but, alas, you have to pay a monthly subscription (which I basically never do for any service) in addition to the $9 for everything. And even for the free content, the app is not executed that well: you only get a partial transcript and then a link to a pdf of the full transcript that will not be stored in the app once you close it; so if you want to download your content (i.e. to not have to reply on an internet connection in order to view it), you need to leave the app on in your iPhone indefinitely. The app is not altogether valueless - you can download the audio and, as I said, you get a partial transcript for some (all?) of the podcasts, but if I could go back I’d have saved $9 and just downloaded the audio as free mp3s. Hope the developers have a look at this and think of ways to improve it - I will never subscribe to their monthly payroll (I do not like subscription models in general) but I would be happy to pay $0.5 - $1 per episode to have permanent access to its full transcript!