Early Version - širvintos, part 1

Širvintos^°hard word is a small town in eastern^°hard word Lithuania, serving^°hard word as^°hard word the administrative^°hard word center^°hard word of the Širvintos^°hard word District^°hard word Municipality^°hard word within^°hard word Vilnius^°hard word County^°hard word. It lies approximately^°hard word 50 km^°hard word northwest^°hard word of Vilnius^°hard word, the capital^°hard word, and is part of the ethnographic^°hard word region^°hard word of Auk^°hard wordštaitija^°hard word.

The town has a population of around 6,000–7,000 people and is situated^°hard word along the Širvinta^°hard word River, from which it takes its name. Širvintos^°hard word is known^°hard word for its quiet atmosphere^°hard word, a modest^°hard word but tidy^°hard word town center^°hard word, and its recent^°hard word urban^°hard word revitalization^°hard word efforts. In the past decade, significant EU-funded^°hard word improvements^°hard word have transformed parts of the town—new public spaces, walking paths, renovated^°hard word streets, and cultural^°hard word sites^°hard word have been developed to make it more livable^°hard word and attractive^°hard word.

The focus^°hard word today is "Trakaido^°hard word". Here is a list of 21 things to do, and 3 things that got finished before I wrote^°hard word this post.

it needs an "audio^°hard word production^°hard word pipeline^°hard word" that is less bad than the current one. This includes^°hard word better "here are new words, generate audio^°hard word and upload^°hard word it" tooling, and better "audio^°hard word double-checking^°hard word" 🔥 no LLM^°hard word tool is perfect.
additional^°hard word grammar^°hard word
"phrases^°hard word"
integration^°hard word with Greenland^°hard word
additional^°hard word language support
access^°hard word to images^°hard word ("ball", "France", "carrot")
"how to type Lithuanian" - transcribe^°hard word žem^°hard wordės rie^°hard wordšutas^°hard word
Improve the "Study Materials" management^°hard word
On some of the audio^°hard word, you can hear an "inhale^°hard word" breath before the word is pronounced^°hard word. 🔥 this is a demonstration^°hard word of the LLM's^°hard word ability^°hard word to generate real-life^°hard word quality content^°hard word. unfortunately^°hard word, it is still wrong 💡 building a better "audio^°hard word transcription^°hard word lab^°hard word" tool is still out-of-bailiwick^°hard word
The options^°hard word for 6/8 multiple^°hard word choices don't^°hard word work as^°hard word well on mobile^°hard word.
The "hints^°hard word" shouldn't^°hard word show up in LT^°hard word->EN^°hard word mode^°hard word. "It's^°hard word a shape" when only 1 MultChoice^°hard word answer is a shape.
Some of the time, the audio^°hard word should play without "click^°hard word/hover^°hard word" (and there should be pre-loading^°hard word for this).
The fact that the layout^°hard word "jumps" when the buttons get bigger^°hard word (because the translation^°hard word is added) is problematic^°hard word and needs to be fixed, not^°hard word just worked around.
There should be a visible^°hard word is muted^°hard word? option^°hard word, separate from the broad settings^°hard word.
the original^°hard word design for the app was to choose a random voice. the machine took that function^°hard word out. It should come back in some way.
a "splash^°hard word screen" when they enter.
an intro^°hard word screen that is self-explanatory^°hard word, OR, a "new user^°hard word tutorial^°hard word"
either "start as^°hard word new user^°hard word", "start with some skill^°hard word", or "start as^°hard word expert". For a "new user^°hard word", we start with 20 words and go from there. For "some skill^°hard word" ... the app can try to assess strengths and weaknesses^°hard word. 🔥 i can do the math, just not^°hard word right now. For "expert" ... we assume^°hard word they know (or at least have context^°hard word to understand) everything. review^°hard word, reminder^°hard word, and fun^°hard word are the focus^°hard word.
"dialogues^°hard word" - demonstrate^°hard word competence^°hard word and mastery^°hard word. 🔥 the dialogues^°hard word might have xantham^°hard word 💡 the colors are not separate character-voices^°hard word. so, probably not^°hard word xantham^°hard word. ⚔️ Lithuanian doesn't^°hard word have the letter "X"
"Display^°hard word words in corpus^°hard word" - list all the 20 words in a group, with translation^°hard word and "play audio^°hard word".
I explicitly^°hard word dislike^°hard word the interstitial^°hard word "Keep going, you're^°hard word doing^°hard word great" screens ... but other people are very likely to disagree^°hard word. Maybe I can find a compromise^°hard word ...

DONE^°hard word:

re-factor^°hard word the "Lithuanian API^°hard word" and some CSS^°hard word out. reconsider^°hard word architecture^°hard word choices. This really wants to take advantage^°hard word of React^°hard word components^°hard word in a way that the current architecture^°hard word does not^°hard word allow.
Collapse the options^°hard word, to a drop-down^°hard word of modes^°hard word ("Flash Cards", "Multiple^°hard word Choice", "Grammar^°hard word"), and have a second drop-down^°hard word for details (EN-LT^°hard word direction, which "Grammar^°hard word" mode^°hard word, etc^°hard word.)
"Save Corpus^°hard word Choices" - we don't^°hard word want to "lock" to a restricted^°hard word set forever. or do we? Maybe a nudge^°hard word ( "enable^°hard word more corpuses^°hard word" or "do you want to add this corpus^°hard word" ) is the way to go.