ERReader

An English book in which part of the words are Russian. How many is up to you — a ring, from zero to a hundred per cent.

How it reads

Nobody translates the sentence for you. The English frame holds the grammar — the article, the word order, the preposition — and your head fills in the noun from what is around it. When it does not, one tap shows the word, its part of speech and how it is spelled.

Start at five per cent, where a Russian word turns up once a paragraph. Move the ring when that stops slowing you down. Above sixty per cent the app starts replacing function words too, and what is left is a crib rather than a book — the ring says so when you get there.

Cyrillic when you are ready for it

An unfamiliar alphabet turns every replaced word into a hole in the page, so the alphabet is a setting, not a wall. Latin spells the word the way you already saw it in Gorbachev and borshch: krovat'. Both shows the two together. Cyrillic is where you end up: кровать. Switching is instant and does not reshuffle the page.

Your own books

• EPUB, FB2 and plain text. Add them from Files or share them in from another app.
• The dictionary is inside the app: no network, no account, on a plane or in the metro.
• Nothing is collected. No ads, no analytics, no trackers.
• Words you have learned stop being replaced, and the freed percentage goes to the next word.

Price

Three days without limits. After that ten pages a day stay free, and a single purchase removes the limit for good. It is not a subscription: nothing renews, nothing is charged again.