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Last updated: 2026-09-24 · Version a3b0bd16
Uchim stands for learning Russian with substance: every rule checked, every step built on the one before it, all of it thought through by people who stand behind it. That is how a language is really learned — not with answers that sound plausible, but with knowledge that holds.
AI has a clearly drawn place here: it helps us polish wording, not do the thinking. This page sets out where exactly it played a part — and where it deliberately did not.
Artificial intelligence is a broad term. When we use it here, we mean something specific: language models, or large language models, LLMs for short. These are programs that have learned from very large amounts of text how language is put together — which words usually follow which, how sentences fit, how a paragraph tends to begin and end.
Ask such a model for a text and it does not arrive all at once; it arrives piece by piece. For each next piece, the model works out which continuation most probably fits everything so far, and appends it. Word by word a text grows that reads as though someone had written it.
That looks like understanding, but it is arithmetic. A language model does not know whether a statement is true; it only knows how a statement usually sounds. Which is why it can be fluent and convincing — and still be wrong.
Anyone learning a language needs reliability, not probability. Ask a language model about a grammar rule and you get an answer that sounds convincing. Whether it is correct, the model cannot itself know; whether it suits the stage you have reached, even less so. And a wrong rule, once it has stuck, is hard work to get rid of.
Uchim takes the other road. Our rules, our learning path and our exercises are thought out by people, checked against recognised sources, and built so that each one rests on the last. You get more than an answer: you get an understanding. That is slower than a chatbot — and the reason it holds.
So we use AI sparingly and on purpose: where it is strong, polishing wording — and nowhere unchecked where correctness is what matters.
The texts on this website are ours. What we want to say, which claims we make and what we stand behind, we decided ourselves and wrote ourselves. No text on this website was composed by an AI.
In some places we brought in a language model to revise wording we had already written — to tighten a sentence, make a paragraph easier to read, smooth an awkward transition. The model worked with our text, not in our place. We read every suggested change and decided whether it stayed.
The content is and remains our own. So is the responsibility for it.
The grammar rules, the shape of the learning path and the exercises we publish are ours: we work them out ourselves and write them ourselves. No language model invents a rule or an exercise here.
We do that work conscientiously and to a professional standard: we draw on recognised dictionaries, language corpora and grammars of Russian, and we check our rules against those sources — linguistically, grammatically and lexically. Language is a wide field, and careful work can still contain a mistake. When we find one, or one is reported to us, we correct it.
While you are using this website, no AI is involved — neither visibly nor in the background. Every text is finished before it reaches you; at the moment you open a page, nothing is being worded any more.
The same holds in the other direction. What you enter here — in the contact form, on the waiting list, or in a deletion request — we hand to no AI system: not for processing, not for analysis, not for training. Nor do we feed back how you use this website. Your data reaches no AI.
How we handle your data overall — what we store, for how long and why — is set out in our privacy policy.
Language lives on conversation, and so does this page. If a sentence strikes you as wrong, unclear or open to misreading, tell us on our contact page. We will look into it, put it right, and learn from it.