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Benjamin Barrell 🪶
3 months
🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶. the best way to learn multiple languages.120+ languages with full support. 🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶🪶. Languages currently supported:. Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic (Algeria), Arabic (Bahrain), Arabic (Egypt), Arabic (Iraq), Arabic (Jordan),
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21 hours
Switched from gpt-5-mini to mistral medium today. Took about 20 minutes. 10x faster.Same token price.Substantially better quality.Actually adheres to the style guide.Zero “random characters” (wtf is up with those in 5??). Thank you @MistralAI 🙏.
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working with azure be like
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Been grinding, not posting 💪 . Major updates to expressions this week, finally added the ability to view expressions as a collection of phrases… hence phrase-ing. Took some tweaking so I didn’t pay too much attention to my reviews buuut. 🇹🇷 FINALLY starting to acquire some
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7 days
good progress, good day
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Benjamin Barrell 🪶
7 days
omg sweet sweet relief
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Forgot to post reviews yesterday . 🇮🇳 big day for sankskrit, script is getting pretty comfy.🇱🇹 some old reviews came up and I remembered them all 🎉 means words are sticking!.🇭🇰 tones are seriously so much fun
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Benjamin Barrell 🪶
7 days
Switched some extractions in Phrasing over from gpt 4.1 to gpt 5. Results seem pretty much the same… but take 10x longer to run… but at 0.6x the cost…. Not sure if win or fail.
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Benjamin Barrell 🪶
9 days
Tough day today but next thing I knew it was 120 reviews. 🇪🇪 Estonian was the big winner today, added some new expressions and they’re glorious.🇬🇷 Greek was hands down the one I’m struggling with the most lately!.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh was flowing smooooth.🇮🇳 Sanskrit grammar actually starting
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Good session today, despite having issues with literally everything. Reviews still worked like a charm, and all the data preloaded made the issues non issues :). 🇯🇵 rough but I’m moving onto phrases which is good. 🇪🇪 at this point I know my Expressions so I’m starting to grok the
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Benjamin Barrell 🪶
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Azure is down, at least 90% of my requests are failing despite no changes. Started getting a bunch of database issues so maybe neon having issues… . I tried to look into it but can’t log into fly. Did everything I write break on the same day or is something up with the internet?.
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Benjamin Barrell 🪶
11 days
And finally #cantonese is back out of purgatory 😂. Was enjoying the heck out of #croatian today, full sentences were really starting to come together. #turkish keeps surprising me with how much I study. Feels like nothing. Hopefully that means a similar breakthrough soon!
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Benjamin Barrell 🪶
12 days
Bit of a mad dash through most of these reviews. Playing with lots of cool new layouts on phrasing though 🤪
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Benjamin Barrell 🪶
13 days
Man what a grind today! 2h but only 150 cards. Slow and methodical. So much listening comprehension practice. #croatian was the standout today, it’s amazing how familiar it feels in comparison. Also I had a good day with #greek which never happens!
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Benjamin Barrell 🪶
13 days
new upgrade flow who dis
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13 days
@appleexplained⁩ cooked on this one 🔥
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Benjamin Barrell 🪶
14 days
Good day for languages today. Struggled with #japanese as always but lots of new words and I managed to dissect a couple sentences. #maltese and #lithuanian finally catching a break. Also starting to really pick up on some #arabic grammar. Feeling really good about that!
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Benjamin Barrell 🪶
15 days
Good grind today - turned off the translation for half of it, was a great way to test my knowledge!. Good day for #japanese, and #maltese as well. Fun to finally start seeing reviews for the first time after several weeks. Really makes the reviews feel a lot more dynamic
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Benjamin Barrell 🪶
15 days
How do you feel about using match in asserts? As in. assert match? %MyPattern{ … }, value.
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