Stress in Russian

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Hi Steve.

It would be great if you could implement a way to highlight/mark stress in Russian words. As you know, Russian doesn’t mark stress in words (except in texts for beginners), but this is crucial for correct pronunciation.

Love the platform! I think is much better than LingQ.

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Thanks for the suggestion!

Would you like this for whole texts or just the words and phrases you click to translate? If it’s the latter, you could try using the Ask AI feature to “Add stress marks” to words. If you try this please let me know if it does a good job and whether it’s useful to you.

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I think it would be preferable for the stress to be shown across the entire text.

But I did try the Ask AI feature, and it’s definitely useful

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It’s a bit time-consuming to manually add this prompt each time, but it does the job.

Thanks

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Another option you can try is to use the RussianGram or Slava Dictionary plugins. They’ll stress every word on a page. It’s been a while since I did it, but I think my process was:

  1. Import the book/article into Readlang
  2. Open the edit tab in Readlang of the book/article
  3. Run one of the two plugins (RussianGram or Slava Dictionary). The words in the edit tab will get stress marks
  4. Save the changes on the edit tab.

The only problem I ran into is that some dictionaries run into issues with looking up words with stress marks, but I use the https://en.openrussian.org/ dictionary and it works fine.