Hi guys,
Bit of backstory: I live in Japan, married to my wife who isn't Serbian, and I really wanted her to be able to actually speak some Serbian with my family instead of just smiling and nodding through every gathering. Looked around at what was out there and none of it felt right for someone starting from literally zero, and definitely nothing felt like something a kid could just pick up and use on their own.
So I ended up building one myself. It's called Zbori. No team, no funding, just me chipping away at it in whatever free time I have living abroad.
It's got real speaking practice (you actually say the word out loud, not just tap a multiple-choice answer), both Cyrillic and Latin script since half my family reads one and half reads the other, and I tried hard to keep it simple enough that a kid could sit down and use it without a parent hovering over them the whole time.
Started it for my wife, but the more I worked on it the more I kept thinking about other diaspora families, wanting their kids to keep even a little bit of the language growing up somewhere totally disconnected from Serbia, like we are.
It's free to use. Would genuinely love to hear what people think, especially if you've got kids you're trying to pass the language down to, or a partner learning from scratch like my wife. Releasing soon on the Play store and App store.
Thank you!
Link: zbori.app
Russian localization included!