A Russian learning app for kids, built into the same game as English
Word Safari's Russian track gives your child a genuine 150-word starter pack, its own decodable stories, and its own levels, tracked separately from their English progress.
Russian is an honest starter pack, not the full seven-tier depth of English yet, and it works fully offline like the rest of Word Safari.
A real Russian track, not a bolt-on
Word Safari treats Russian as a genuine track inside the same game, not a handful of translated flashcards stapled onto the English app.
The Russian pack starts at 150 real words, chosen the same way the English tiers are: words a child can actually sound out and use, paired with their own short decodable stories built only from words already introduced. It is honestly scoped as a starter pack. It does not yet match the seven-tier, 1,347-word depth of the English track, and we would rather say that plainly than oversell it.
What makes it useful for a family keeping Russian alive at home, whether that is a grandparent's language, a heritage commitment, or simply a language a family wants to give a child early, is that it sits inside the same reading-and-spelling game your child already knows how to play. There is nothing new to learn about the app itself, just a new language inside it.
Every kid profile tracks Russian's level completely separately from English, and from German, if a family plays that too. Starting Russian never resets, slows down, or interferes with the tiers your child has already reached in English.
Adding Russian works the same way starting English does. A short placement warm-up finds a reasonable starting point inside the 150-word pack, then adjusts round by round as your child plays and gets more comfortable. There's no separate sign-up or account to create, just an option to add the language from an existing kid profile, and the app takes care of finding the right level from there.
What's inside
Real numbers, counted from the app's own content.
A real starter pack with its own stories, not a translated wordlist bolted onto English.
The same nine reading games and three spelling modes work in Russian too.
Your child's English track keeps its full seven-tier depth, tracked completely apart from Russian.
Fits trilingual and bilingual households too
Plenty of families using Word Safari for Russian are also building English, or German, or both. Because every language is tracked per kid, per language, a family can run Russian alongside English on one account, or add German as well, without any language stepping on another's progress. If that's your household, the trilingual app for kids page and the bilingual family reading app page walk through exactly how the language combinations work, including which pairs of languages are common, and what to expect from each track's honest depth.
Give Russian a real try
Six real exercises live on the homepage, or jump straight into the full game.
Or try a round right here before you sign up.
The same guarantees, in every language
No ads, works offline, and your child's name never leaves the device, whichever language they're playing in.
Questions parents ask about Russian
Is Russian a full curriculum like English?
No, and we'd rather be upfront about that. Russian starts as a real 150-word starter pack with its own stories, honestly scoped as a starting point rather than the full seven-tier depth of the English track. It keeps growing.
Can I run English, German and Russian for the same child?
Yes. Each kid profile tracks English, German and Russian as separate levels, so a family can run all three languages on one account without any of them resetting or blending into another.
Does Russian work offline?
Yes. Once the Russian pack has loaded, your child can play a full round with no internet connection, exactly like the English track.