LinguaLift Review

Thursday, March 27th

2025 Russian Lesson Reviews

LinguaLift

• Priced $19.99 per month up to $155.88 per year
• Reading and listening lessons
• Free trial of several lessons across fluency levels
• 30-day refund window
• Tutors offered to members
• App and desktop access
• Can use both offline and online

Lingualift, which began operations over six years ago, provides Russian lessons designed by scholars from esteemed institutions like Oxford, Stanford, and Harvard University. The research of these scholars aimed to support teaching techniques, structure, and illustrative materials to boost student involvement and memory retention. Despite its strengths, Lingualift is distinctive for offering the fewest language options among the programs we've reviewed. Apart from Russian, Lingualift only offers Spanish, Japanese, and French courses.

Easy to signup

You can easily sign up and dive into your first lesson on Lingualift. Simply register with your email or through social media and begin your language learning journey for free. You have the option to either take a placement test or start your initial lesson. During the free trial/preview, you'll be given access to the first four lessons in each level.

Dense material from day 1

At level 1, the four beginner lessons focus on Russian culture, offering insights into various aspects such as capsule hotels and customary greetings. Typically, the first lesson involves reading lengthy passages before engaging in listening exercises that reinforce the cultural topics covered earlier. In the first Russian lesson, you'll have clickable links that redirect you to PDF files. The first one is 120+ pages long. Following the written portion, you may encounter a quiz prompting you to complete sentences in Cyrillic. Overall, the effect is something extremely dense and overwhelming.

Lingualift misses the mark with learning tools

Lingualift's style is primarily written content and quizzes. If you subscribe, you can get instructor assistance with feedback on your assignments. However, Lingualift is missing many common practice opportunities like speaking exercises, speech recognition, or recording features. This drawback (and the dense writing-heavy lessons) contribute to Lingualift being rated lower compared to other Russian lessons we reviewed.

Four payment plans

At Lingualift, you have the option to select from four payment intervals: monthly, quarterly, bi-annual, and annual. To complete the course you do need to subscribe to premium or else your lessons will be locked to the first four courses per level. The premium features include 500 more hours of lesson content and the opportunity to engage with Russian tutors. Here's what you can expect for pricing:

• Monthly: $19.99
• Quarterly: $50.97
• Bi-annual: $89.94
• Annual: $155.88

Limited progression if you don't pay

The Russian curriculum at Lingualift comprises six levels with access to the first four lessons in each level for free. If you subscribe, each level offers 25-26 total lessons, meaning around 150 total lessons. However, if you don't subscribe, you're left with just 24 lessons, and you'll miss the planned progression through the levels before moving on.

30-day refunds

Lingualift provides a 30-day refund policy. This policy allows you to cancel your Lingualift membership and receive a refund, no questions asked, within the first 30 days of activating your premium membership. Since students might be initially put off by the dense PDF material in the first few lessons, this longer trial period gives you a chance to explore more of the Lingualift process before you decide.

Reviews show some red flags

Lingualift receives one of the lowest ratings in our assessment. Based on reviews from mobile app stores, Lingualift has an average rating of 1.8 stars out of 5. Similarly, third-party review platforms like Trustpilot show an average rating of just 2.8 stars. Feedback from both students and language experts shows that Lingualift is not a worthwhile investment of time or money. Some students experienced issues accessing lessons despite paying for a membership and other complaints included trouble with contacting customer support.

Lingualift doesn't come with high recommendations

Lingualift's Russian lessons leave us scratching our heads. Given the poor ratings and negative feedback regarding access to paid content, you may want to use caution when considering Lingualift. With dense, writing-heavy lessons, and extremely poor reviews, it may be better to check out the higher-rated alternatives listed in our review. For this reason, Lingualift earns a low rating for its Russian language instruction.