Website Updates — word lists, lessons, and bossfights
16,000 words across five languages, free to browse. A boss fight you can play in your browser. And Latin Roots is out now.
The site has been rebuilt
The whole site has a new standard layout, applied across every page you'd actually visit. The headline addition is the Word Lists page: free, frequency-ranked vocabulary for all five FlashBoss languages — English, German, Spanish, Italian, and Esperanto — grouped into thematic clusters across five tiers, each word paired with its English translation.
Play a boss fight in your browser
The demo is live and needs no install: nine packs, three challenges each, with questions pulled at random from sample tiers — good for a few replays apiece.
Latin Roots — out now
Latin Roots is about building words from their Latin parts: learn the roots and the prefixes, and you can reason out the meaning of words you've never seen. $4.99 on Steam.
Last scheduled drop: Italian Pareto 2, June 11
Italian Pareto 2 is in final editing and ships June 11 — the last drop on the schedule, and the one that completes the planned catalogue across five languages.
Bug hunting continues
Still hunting, and the bounty stands: turn up a novel bug and claim a DLC of your choice. Contact:
Summer Schedule
Quality-control passes and improvements across the catalogue. A Piper text-to-speech window is coming, so you can paste in any text and hear it read in the same offline voices the packs use. And two new packs are planned — French and Greek Roots. There are no dates for release. The goal is to have them prepared in time for the Steam Autumn Sale.
Steam Summer Sale: June 25 – July 9
All FlashBoss content 20% off for the full two weeks. Exceptions: Latin Roots and Italian Pareto 2. Sorry. Their release is too late to set sale discounts for them.
Inside Latin Roots — for the curious
Large vocabularies aren't built one word at a time; they build from the root buried inside a word and the prefix bolted to the front. Learn a single root — par, to make ready or make equal — and a dozen words open at once: prepare, repair, compare, parity, disparage, even emperor and rampart. 500 cards, 1,000 words, across five tiers that climb from transport to perfidious and stringent. Every card shows the root, its Latin source, and exactly how the parts assemble, with synonyms and antonyms to place each word, and clean Piper audio throughout. It's the odd one out in the catalogue — where the other packs define words, Latin Roots defines their parts, so on the site it's laid out root by root rather than word by word.
The wordlists are printable as simple 'cut and fold' flashcards for free. The best of luck to everybody with their language learning undertaking. I hope FlashBoss serves you well.
— Odiin