You can study Russian for months and still freeze when it's time to talk. Parlita fixes that by making you speak from the first session: real conversations with an AI partner, living stories you act inside, and the words you stumble on woven into spaced repetition so they stick.
What learning Russian is actually like
The alphabet is not the hard part, which surprises almost everybody. Cyrillic takes about a week of unserious effort and then it is just how you read, and there is a real thrill the first time a street sign stops being shapes and resolves into a word you know.
The cases are the hard part. Nouns change their endings depending on the job they are doing in the sentence, there are six of those jobs, and the adjectives have to agree as well. There is genuine compensation though. Russian has no articles whatsoever, and it drops the present tense of to be entirely, so you say I student and that is a complete and correct sentence. Watch out for магазин, which is a shop and not a magazine.