Games, Russian, and French for Russian speakers New: Games got better. Tick several games at once and play whichever finds an opponent first. Matches are quicker, with a combo for right answers in a row and a final question worth double. If your opponent leaves, the win is yours straight away, and players at different levels each get questions at their own level. Change your answer any time before the reveal, and rematch friends. Your next lesson is always one tap away with the new Continue button. Fixed: right answers were sometimes marked wrong online. New: Friends is now Socials, and it has a second half: Games. Play a friend or anyone at all 1v1, live, in Picture Rush, Sound Rush or True or False: whatever language the other person is learning, you both get the same ten pictures at the same moment and each answer in your own. Every match moves your rating, and the leaderboard shows ratings, wins, win rate and accuracy. With Premium, two people can also play face to face on one phone, no internet needed. New: Socials, Practice and You have a new look, the same on every tab. Your username and code are a name tag now, shared in one tap; requests and challenges arrive as notes at the top; you find somebody by telling Blip who you are looking for; and every leaderboard shows how far each person is behind the leader. New: Finishing a lesson is a celebration now: your streak turns over to the new day, today’s goal fills up, you watch yourself overtake people in your league, and new badges flip over one by one. New: Premium now belongs to your Wordaboo account, not to your phone. Sign in on a new phone and Premium is there. If the subscription on a phone was bought for another account, the Premium screen says whose it is and can move it over. New: Out of hearts in the middle of a lesson? A short video now gives you one back, once per lesson, so you can finish. After a lesson you can double its XP twice a day, and same-screen play can be tried with a video before you go Premium. New: Russian for English speakers, from the alphabet to B2.4: 156 lessons, every word recorded. It opens with the Cyrillic letters that look like Latin ones and are not — В, Н, Р, С, У, Х — and every reading shows the stress, which Russian never writes and which decides how the other vowels sound: молоко is read molokó. New: French for Russian speakers, to B2.4, with every explanation written in Russian and against Russian. Past-tense agreement, the genitive as a partitive and ты/вы are things you already own, so the cards confirm them and move on; they spend their time on what Russian has no model for — the articles, a verb "to be" you cannot drop, and ne… pas. Fixed: In German for Russian speakers, every translation prompt said «по-немецкий» where Russian needs «по-немецки», and the Russian welcome line used the wrong case. Both are fixed, and a check now catches it for any course with a Russian interface. Fixed: The recordings for the lesson you are now download first. Deep into a course, a lesson could speak in the phone's own voice until the download caught up; now it uses the real voices from your first try.

Every course now goes to B2. Eleven courses stopped at B1.7 before. All eighteen now run to B2.4, including Italian, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese. Each gained twelve units written for its own pair of languages — reported speech, the relative pronouns past the easy one, the passive, and the idioms you cannot work out from the words. Japanese opens on keigo; Portuguese takes the future subjunctive and the personal infinitive, which almost no other language has. 396 new lessons. 2,818 in total, every one with audio. Fixed: on iPhone, a lesson could stutter and the voice turn robotic partway through. Speaking an answer took the audio session and nothing handed it back, so every clip after that fell through to the phone's own voice. Fixed: your league score could show your lifetime XP instead of what you had earned since joining your group. Also fixed: some unit icons on the map were blank; the reminder that your league is closing now comes on the day it actually ends, not every Sunday; the placement test no longer asks you to sign in before your first real lesson; and you can back out of choosing a new course from the map.

Japanese. Thirty-three units to B1, 794 words spoken — and every sentence now shows how it is read, fading as you get further in. Practice knows what you are about to forget: every word gets a place in a schedule, and a review leads with the shakiest. Ninety-four B2 words swapped for ones people say. Fixed: dragging tiles, stale friend scores, the league ranking by the number it shows, reminders that stay off.

Brazilian Portuguese, and Italian grown to match. Portuguese for English speakers is the seventeenth course: forty units, a hundred and twenty lessons, to B1.7. It is Brazilian, and the course says so on the tile rather than leaving you to work it out — everything else Portuguese in this app already was. It is built around what actually catches an English speaker. Ser and estar are both "to be", and picking the wrong one changes what you said rather than merely sounding foreign. Prepositions fuse with articles and it is not optional: de plus o is do, every time. Gostar refuses to work without de. Later units reach the subjunctive, the future subjunctive that almost no other language kept, and a whole unit on né, aí and a gente — the words that separate correct Portuguese from spoken Portuguese. Italian has grown to the same length: a hundred and twenty lessons, also to B1.7. The new units cover object pronouns that sit in front of the verb, the real future and the conditional, the imperfetto against the passato prossimo, regret in the past conditional, and the filler words — boh, dai, magari — that no textbook teaches and every conversation needs. The level check is now twenty questions instead of fifteen. Every checkpoint still takes a clean sweep, so the extra question makes guessing past one about four times harder. It still never places you below a chapter you have already finished.

Four courses now reach B2. French, German and Spanish for English speakers, and English for Russian speakers, each gain twelve units and thirty-six lessons. None of it came from a textbook. Every chapter was written against the 120 lessons already in that course, which killed three planned units outright — the connectives unit was already there as u26l3, and the subjunctive conjunctions were already there as u23l3. What went in instead is what was genuinely missing: · Reported speech and the tense that steps back with it · The subjunctive after a negated opinion — je ne pense pas qu’il SOIT là · The relatives beyond dont and who: lequel, cuyo, dessen, the comma that changes what an English sentence claims · The tense Spanish uses to guess — serán las cinco means it is probably five · Participle clauses, which half of written English runs on · The diminutive that changes tone rather than size FIXED: YOUR STREAK Your streak now ends when it has actually ended. It was only ever recalculated when you finished a lesson, so days away left the old number sitting there until your next one. Shared streaks had the same problem for a different reason — a stale day-mask was read as though it were current — and both are fixed. 1,954 lessons across fifteen courses. The other eleven still run to B1.7.

Four new courses, and the app now reads in Devanagari. ENGLISH FOR HINDI SPEAKERS 120 lessons to B1.7, written for what actually trips a Hindi speaker up rather than for English grammar in the abstract. Hindi has no articles at all, so a and the carry the whole unit. It puts नहीं straight in front of the verb, which is why "I not know" is the commonest slip there is — do-support has no Hindi counterpart. And से means both for and since, which is exactly where "I am living here since 2010" comes from. Where Hindi already does what English does, the cards say so instead of teaching it twice: the copula, the present continuous, the adjective before its noun. The whole app speaks Hindi — every screen, every button, in Devanagari. That needed a different typeface, because the one the app uses cannot draw the script at all. GERMAN FOR SPANISH SPEAKERS A full course to B1.7, written against Spanish rather than translated from the English one. gefallen is simply gustar. kennen and wissen are conocer and saber. So the units go to the two things that genuinely differ: three genders where you have two, and age, which German IS and Spanish HAS. GERMAN FOR RUSSIAN SPEAKERS Also complete to B1.7. Cases, three genders, adjective endings, reflexives and ты/вы are all things you already own, and the cards confirm them rather than teach them. What is genuinely new is one thing, and it is a big one: the article, which Russian does not have at all. SPANISH FOR FRENCH SPEAKERS Our first course between two Romance languages. The adjective after the noun, the gendered articles, avoir faim, connaître against savoir — all confirmed rather than taught, which frees the whole second half for the four places the two really part company: ser against estar, gustar running backwards, por and para where French has one pour, and the personal a, which French has no counterpart for. FIXED Audio sometimes spoke a word from the previous screen, seemingly out of nowhere — most often in the placement test. A safety net meant to catch a silent recording was firing after you had already moved on. It now stops when the audio stops. Fixed: the headline on the Premium screen was clipped along the top. Fifteen courses now, and 1,810 lessons.

Fixes, all of them reported by people using the app. Tapping to the next card no longer leaves the previous word playing, and the matching exercise registers a tap straight away instead of a moment later. Inviting a friend to a shared streak no longer adds them to your board before they accept, and a shared friend code now carries a link to the app. The keyboard also stays out of the way of the username field.

Small repairs. The recorded voices download more reliably now, and if they ever do not, the app can tell you why — You, then Help and legal, then Test the voice. And when no video is available for a bubble, it says so plainly instead of showing a technical error.

Every word in every course is now spoken by a real recorded voice instead of your iPhone's built-in one — four different speakers, and the same audio on every device. A course downloads once when you open it and then works offline. Press and hold any speaker button to hear a word slowly. Two new languages: German, taught from English, a full course all the way to B1.7 — the three genders, the four cases, and why the verb keeps moving to the end. English for Portuguese speakers, written from scratch for what actually trips a Brazilian up: the subject you cannot drop, "I have 20 years", "people is", and the false friends that reverse the meaning. The whole app speaks Portuguese too, not just the lessons. Every course now runs to B1.7 — relative clauses, the past before the past, reported speech, register and idiom. Eight courses, 970 lessons. Also fixed: the weekly league was showing an empty board to everyone, and a streak shared with a friend read zero for whoever practised first. Bubbles came back after a restart, some words played silently, and skipping the placement test now asks first and tells you how to retake it.