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I really like the format and premise.

It doesn't seem, however, to be sufficiently flexible in the various ways to fill in the blank (at least in Russian). For example, when given the sentence

    Как вы на это ___

with the translation "how did you see that", I tried "увидел", and it told me the correct answer was "смотрите". That's clearly another answer, but I'm not sure it's any more than what I gave. Or perhaps my Russian isn't as good as I thought?

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I'm Russian and "Как вы на это увидел" is not correct. In fact, I don't even know what that's supposed to mean, sorry. "Как вы на это смотрите" on the other hand is perfectly normal and basically means "What do you think of that".

Thank you. Your translation of "Как вы на это смотрите" makes sense and feels natural. However, the given translation "how did you see that" doesn't seem to match. Would "как вы видил ето" work for that?

"He was sneaking from behind. How did you see that?" translates to "Он подкрадывался сзади. Как вы это увидели?".

"Он предложил это. Как вы на это смотрели?" could be literally translated as "He proposed that. How did you see (or look at) that?", but the correct translation would be "He proposed that. What did you think about that?".

Source: am a native speaker.

There could certainly be multiple answers that make sense like you mentioned, though at the moment only one answer is accepted by default. There is however the option to add your own alternative answers, http://imgur.com/a/Vl5o4, and I'd definitely like to come up with some way to support multiple default answers in the future.

one thing about the russian that strikes me (native speaker) as odd is that the voice is female but sometimes uses male conjugations.

Yep that's a known issue - I'd like to eventually implement voice gender to match missing word gender, but it's still a bit down the road.

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