Lingopal (blog)

We’re making some changes with Lingopal, and we think they’ll be for the better.
1) Lingopal will be available as single language apps. In fact, German and Japanese are available already, for US$0.99. These will be known as ‘Lingopal German’, ‘Lingopal Japanese’, ‘Lingopal language name … etc.’
These work very much like the main app, in that [...]

A little while ago I was in Russia, running extremely late to catch a flight. The taxi driver started at a reasonable speed, but when he noticed my fretting and glances at my watch, his speed decreased.
‘Bistro, pazhalusta,’ I said (fast, please). Incidentally, ‘bistro’ apparently entered the English vernacular when the Russian soldiers, on chasing [...]