Today's update is the biggest FlashBoss has ever shipped, and this is the headline: the whole interface now runs in German, Japanese and Spanish, alongside English. The first launch asks for your language; after that, Ctrl+L switches it instantly — on any screen, at any time. Menus, lessons, boss fights, preferences, achievements, your master's own words: all of it reads in your language.
Interface language and card language can be chosen independently of each other. Where a pack offers it, you choose per pack which language its translations and notes display in — study German through Japanese while your menus stay in Spanish, if that is your idea of fun.
1,000 words on 1,000 cards: English vocabulary through the Greek that built science, medicine and philosophy. Learn tele-, -logy, psycho- and -graph once, and whole families of English words unlock at a stroke. Five tiers, a boss at every gate, taught entirely in English like its siblings — the fourth Roots pack, joining German, Norman and Latin Roots. Find it on Steam.
Every one of the 3,000 cards in the German family — Core and both expansions — now carries a Japanese and a Spanish translation, with study notes to match — and the lessons now read in Japanese and Spanish too. If German through English was never your path, it doesn't have to be any more.
Esperanto Core and Toki Pona go further still: every card and every lesson, in all four languages.
The rest of the library is being built out language by language — that is what the weekly news is for.
A new per-hero English spelling preference — American, British, or Auto, which follows your active voice — governs cards, lessons, cluster names and answer checking. The British layer covers every pack's English text, and where the two Englishes genuinely part ways (not just colour and color, but what the words mean), the cards teach your side of the Atlantic.
The speech engine now stays warm between clips instead of restarting for every one. In practice: audio that took seconds per card on older machines is now near-instant after the first clip of a session, and pre-caching whole tiers runs several times faster everywhere. If FlashBoss ever felt slow on your hardware, this update is for you. One first-clip pause per session remains — and it's on its last legs: the next update warms the engine while you're still reading the menu.
Save reliability was hardened across the board this cycle — reviews write locally card by card, and the cloud follows without ever blocking play. Beyond that: your master's full allocation of new cards is always dealt before bonus study; hyphens and dashes are spoken the way a human would say them; lessons announce themselves once, in one voice; long notes wrap exactly as written; long cluster names can no longer break the card frame; Greek script renders correctly on Windows; and tier 9 answers to its own number again.
From today, FlashBoss releases on Thursdays. Next Thursday: French — and it arrives speaking all four languages from day one. Wishlist it now. After that, on Thursdays of their own: Latin — a 2,000-word reading course built from the ground up — and Ancient Greek. The weekly news posts will keep the schedule honest.
And the two we owe you: in July we said the Castilian Spanish and Northern English voices would land within the month. They hit a snag. The content is finished and it remains the top priority — the voices arrive outside the Thursday line, together with English Core: the full 1,000-word English course for German, Japanese and Spanish speakers, already written in all three of those languages. No date until we're certain. Close.
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