Frontend Design/Message Ideas

Rootski - an app for learning russian with roots.

With Rootski, you can turn this... into this... (unhighlighted to highlighted).

1. What makes learning Russian vocabulary hard?

2. Russian words are loooong. Show саморазмораживающийся (uncolored) - self-defrosting

   • What if as you scrolled past a certain point, the word highlighted into roots and shows comic book, scribbly arrows pointing to the various roots and explaining what they mean.

3. There are also a lot of them. "for" has 3 translations на, для, за

4. Roots make Russian words easy.

   1. Show highlighted само раз мораж ивающийся. (self-defrosting)
   2. Have arrows pointing to each part that look like they were drawn in crayon (or chalk) with the text for the meaning in comic sans or some childish font.

5. There are 2,500+ Russian roots, but only the top ~300 show up in most words. You can learn those 300 in no time!

   • Show 10+ russian words with the root "каз". Justify them so that the appearance of каз lines up for all of them (this isn't left justified, centered, or right justified; I'm not sure how to do this with CSS; maybe an SVG?)

6. Try your hand at breaking down some words. The community works together to create better breakdowns, which help our AI make better guesses for the rest of the words. (awful sentence... I just want to explain how the community aspect works, and have a GIF of how users do breakdowns)

• 300 words show up in MOST russian words