Hi,
found something to get corrected
Course 7 level 7
Vocabulary: я видел девушку, брат которой жил в нашем доме
German version is writing we and not I. Could this please be equal.
Course 7 level 5
район missing audio version, not sure if any available or just missing
Thank you
Hi @smibne,
thanks for flagging these! I’ve changed the German translation of “я видел девушку, брат которой жил в нашем доме” to say “I”. For “район”: I just checked and this item has audio, so please check again (maybe log out and in again) to see if you still have that issue.
Thanks and happy learning!
Linh
Hi, on the the course search page for Russian courses for British English Speakers (web version), only 14 courses are showing up.
A similar thing happened with the Japanese courses which has been fixed here [Course Forum] Japanese 1-7 by Memrise
So I thought I better let you know so hopefully it can get fixed as well. 
the male voice for the card “предпочитать” in the Russian 1 deck says “это не для меня”
Hi. Thank you for flagging the mistake. It has been fixed now. Good luck in your learning.
@pasha75
Hi, I noticed there was a typo in Russian 1 - 10 (Vocab Booster: Numbers).
For number 13 it’s been misspelled as “thriteen”, only a small issue but still!
Hi Pasha,
Since some time the Russian 1 and 2 courses have been updated to include a lot more colloquial terms and short sentences which of course don’t have a very literal translation.
But in Russian 1 - lesson 14 (What to eat),
the sentence
“девушка, вы не могли бы мне помочь”
is translated as
“excuse me, could you please help me”
which seems a step too far for me.
Hi @metalking
Thank you for your comment. You have rightly noticed that the updated course has more colloquial and culturally relevant content. Calling a shop assistant or a waitress “девушка” is a specific Russian thing. But translating it as a “young lady” does not seem natural or relevant. So we have made a decision to give contextual equivalents based on the situations rather than translations. Hope it explains our way of thinking. We would be thankful for any further comments on our courses. Best regards, Pasha.
but what about when the shop assistent is a young man? isnt it insulting to call him девушка?
No, we’ll call him молодой человек . But that’s a fair point, unfortunately, we don’t have enough space in the app to teach all possible shopping scenarios. Happy learning!
That’s interesting - I always thought that молодой человек corresponds to boyfriend. Learn something new everyday, thanks! 
“Young man” is a polite and very popular mode of address.
You can say it practically to everyone, not only to actual young men. (but not to women of course)
Ehm,
As I native I can’t but disagree. “Молодой человек” и “Девушка” both have a lot of connotation, context and cultural background. So I’d recommend not to use it at all, at least until you feel confident in different meanings. It’s a still slang, and sometimes not very polite.
Just imagine somebody in 20’s addressing a shopkeeper in his 60’s as a “молодой человек”? Weird.
Ну не знаю… По-моему, это вполне вежливое обращение во множестве повседневных ситуаций (в магазине, в транспорте и тд), когда вы обращаетесь к незнакому человеку. Конечно, если разница в возрасте большая, то оно будет неадекватным. Но это исключение из правила.
Поменяйти местами персонажей - обращение 60-летнего дедушки к 20-летнему продавцу в магазине будет более чем уместным.
Well, its the exactly reason why I don’t recommend using it. One should consider the age, the context and so on. You just can’t say “молодой человек” or “девушка” in a biker’s bar, at the public service and so on.
And may be it is my upbringing but I do consider these to be rather rude in most situations.
Dear @Boris_Nazaroff39
We value your opinion, and can’t but agree that context is important. But like in every language, you are expected also to apply common sense to the usage of words. So how do address a shop assistant? Госпожа?
The point is that this common sense really differs between countries. Consider levels of politeness and indirection in Russia and America, for example.
Unfortunately we have lost the addressing here in Russia 
during the stormy revolutionary years (it was rather “сударыня” и т.п.).
The most universal and safe way - in my opinion - is to use indirect phrases like “Простите пожалуйста, не могли бы вы мне подсказать…” and so on. At leas it is what I hear here.
“Молодой человек” and “девушка” for me is strongly associated with either a) elderly people where it is perfect, or b) with - excuse me - not well educated and somewhat provincial people. Like in “молодой человек, подвиньтесь!” or “девушка, вы на следующей вылазите?”.
Please correct: Russ. 5 Level 11 - Wendungen: Beeindrucke sie! russ. / german
пара пустяков
Deutsch
das ist eine Kleigkeit (für mich) - correct: Kleinigkeit
Hi @wbuerst,
Thank you for flagging this. I’ve just corrected it, please log out and in again to see the change. Thanks again!
Happy learning!
Linh