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TestFlight beta for Duolingo-inspired app to learn conversational Persian/Farsi ❝I’m a native Persian speaker I built a Duolingo-style app focused on conversational Persian (beta feedback welcome) I’m a native Persian speaker, and over the years I’ve noticed the same pattern with learners: they can read, recognize words, and even understand grammar — but still struggle to speak naturally. Most Persian resources lean heavily toward formal or written language, which isn’t how people actually talk. So I built an iOS app focused on conversational Persian, using short, Duolingo-style lessons but grounded in how the language is really spoken day to day. It’s still early and in beta, and I’m hoping to get feedback from learners: • Does this feel closer to real spoken Persian? • What’s confusing or unnatural? • What’s missing that would help with speaking confidence? The beta is free and open via TestFlight here: [ https://testflight.apple.com/join/Qmrc7Kby ](https://testflight.apple.com/join/Qmrc7Kby) Happy to answer questions about design choices, dialect decisions, or how I structured the lessons. UPDATE: Hey everyone — quick update since a few of you gave really thoughtful feedback on the early version of FarsiLingo. I spent the last stretch tightening the UX and learning flow based directly on what you shared. Here’s what’s changed: What’s new / fixed: Clearer instructions in every lesson. Each screen now tells you exactly what to do (listen, speak, choose, match), so you’re not guessing. Vocab always comes first. You see new words with audio + meaning before you’re asked to practice them. Formal vs. informal is starting to be labeled. Some lessons already mark informal vs. formal, and the placement check calls it out — but it’s not everywhere yet. More context, but not everywhere on the lesson screen. The lesson content uses real‑life situations, though that context isn’t always front‑and‑center on the screen. Placement check for experienced learners. If you already know some Farsi, there’s a short listening‑only quiz that unlocks later units. No account needed to try it. You can jump in and do the early lessons without signing up (sign‑in is only needed to save progress or go further). Stories are less jumpy. They don’t auto‑skip to questions; you control the pace and can replay lines. Mobile layout is more stable. Fewer cut‑off buttons, better safe‑area spacing, and fewer weird scroll issues.❞ https://www.reddit.com/r/farsi/s/gKoq1EHRdF

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prediction: The Word-A-Day app @adrienne is cooking up will be the foundation of an entire vocabulary-maxing scenius here on Farcaster, dramatically boosting the number of daily active perspicacious users and builders.

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❝Somehow the DAO returned.❞

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Unsurprisingly, the ICE post marking the grim anniversary repeats the lie that all 28 migrants were in the U.S. illegally. Some, maybe even most of them, were in the U.S. legally with the Bracero Program — an agreement between the U.S. and Mexico that allowed Mexican citizens braceros to take temporary agricultural work in the United States. Employers were obligated to transport these "braceros" to border reception centers at the end of their work contracts, for return to Mexico. But some farmers shirked this duty to avoid the cost, effectively stranding their otherwise lawful migrant workers in the U.S. and prompting U.S. immigration enforcement to pick up the slack and return the workers. So, yeah, at least some of the migrant workers on the ill-fated 1948 flight were aboard that plane because unscrupulous agribusiness owners broke the law.

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there are many ways to oppose Trump regime goons and show solidarity with their victims https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/01/28/abolish-ice-submitted-9200-times-for-chicago-snowplow-naming-contest-records-show/

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Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 29, 2026

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my wife received a whatsapp video call this morning from her mom in tehran for the first time since the internet blackout it was so good to hear maman's voice and see her still able to smile — and even laugh at our dogs' on-camera antics — despite all the recent misery in iran

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which direction do you face when wearing toe spacers while eating an unpeeled kiwi?

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@ohara-ai shutting down, too

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Stella Carlson is such a remarkable example of courage and integrity in both word and deed. The hopeful part of me thinks we each have her strength of character within us, even if it's still waiting to be summoned when it's needed most. May those who step up like Stella find safety, security, and solidarity. They, like Alex Pretti himself, are the best of us. ❤️

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𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙛𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜

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🦖 @macbudkowski is cooking something new (also, this image looks like an ankylosaurus, minus the iconic club tail)

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if you're an American citizen, call your members of Congress and tell them what you think and what you expect of them call out self-serving Trump regime propaganda for what it is when peaceful, nonviolent Americans who never had any interest in owning a firearm start shopping for then, buying them, and inquiring about weapons training, national crisis isn't knocking at the door — it's already forcing entry ❝This isn’t about one incident. It’s about a system that allows state violence to be justified through careful wording, where constitutional rights and basic human reactions are treated as provocation, and compliance is defined as instant, unwavering, total and silent submission: even in the middle of being assaulted by an armed federal agent acting outside of constitutional authority.❞

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Absolutely hearbreaking videos and stories of the victims, survivors, and emergency responders in the Iranian government's brutal crackdown on protesters. The grim work of tallying the dead and injured and telling their stories is far from over. [NYTimes] How Iran Crushed a Citizen Uprising With Lethal Force 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘻𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯, 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 160 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴, 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺. ❝Across the country, hospitals swamped by thousands of injured protesters were unprepared for the scale of the gunshot wounds they were seeing, according to interviews and text messages with eight doctors and one nurse in Iran. Gun violence is rare in Iran, and private citizens are not allowed to own weapons. The doctors and the nurse sharing their experiences in Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan and Zanjan described scenes of chaos: medical staff frantically trying to save lives, white uniforms drenched in blood. They said patients lay on benches and chairs, and even on bare floors, in the overcrowded emergency rooms. They said hospitals were short of blood and searching for trauma and vascular surgeons. The internet shutdown prevented medical staff from checking patients’ names and medical histories, they said. A nurse at Nikan Hospital in Tehran said in an interview that the hospital resembled a war zone. A doctor at Shohada Tajrish Hospital in north Tehran, a sprawling government medical facility, said that, on average, medical staff saw about 70 protesters with gunshot wounds per hour on the two days of peak violence, Jan. 9 and 10. Many patients were dead on arrival or shortly afterward, he said. In an audio message shared with The Times, a doctor in Mashhad called the situation at his hospital “terrifying.” In addition to a staggering number of injured protesters, he said, security forces showed up demanding access to patients to arrest them. He said a team of physicians had set up an ad hoc triage unit at a villa outside of the city, where they treated patients too afraid to go to hospitals. An anesthesiologist at a hospital in the Sattar Khan neighborhood of Tehran said in a text message shared with The Times that in just one night, his hospital had seen 300 injured protesters. A text message from a doctor at a university hospital in Zanjan shared with The Times said most victims were shot in the upper torso, head and neck, and that the hospital had recorded about 200 killed. The Times received photos and videos from inside hospitals that are too gruesome to show. Other very graphic images were posted online by an account with a record of publishing images later found to be authentic. They showed bloody, lifeless bodies inside hospitals said to be in Tehran. Some victims appeared to have been shot in the head. The Times was unable to independently authenticate the images from inside hospitals. Farabi Eye Hospital in Tehran, a national hub for ophthalmology, registered about 500 cases of eye injury from pellet bullets on Jan. 8 and several hundred eye injuries with live bullets on the following two nights, a surgeon said in a text message. He was in the operating room for three nights straight and said he wished for death when he had to empty both eye sockets of a 13-year-old. A doctor in Isfahan said in a text message that they had seen “young people whose brains were smashed with live bullets, and a mom who was shot in the neck, her two small children were crying in the car, a child whose bladder, hip and rectum was crushed with a bullet.” “What I witnessed will forever haunt me,” the doctor added. “I feel guilty that I’m alive.” Photos, videos and text conversations shared with The Times by Dr. Kayvan Mirhadi, an Iranian American doctor in Rochester, N.Y., who has been in regular contact with medical teams and hospitals in Iran, showed dozens of apparent gunshot and pellet wounds to the torso, limbs, head and eyes. “They are essentially executing people on the streets,” Dr. Mirhadi said. “Starting Thursday, the reports of injuries I was receiving changed significantly. It went from brute force, fractures and tear gas to skull fractures and gunshot wounds.” Some images shared by Dr. Mirhadi were sent by people asking how to treat their own wounds or those of relatives. One person asked about a bullet wound in his brother’s leg. Another sent a photo of an eye, with blood pouring out of a gash just above it.❞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/world/middleeast/iran-how-crackdown-was-done.html?unlocked_article_code=1.H1A.ghhw.g9glar0mA9zv&smid=url-share

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