In a word, some basis of the language is there, but sadly in practice it's still unusable
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Got in the way: Qwen3 fails on Latvian diacritics and word choice; EuroLLM lacks coding and tool skills.
… However, if anyone asks it stuff in Latvian, it does mess up more often than not, like someone who has half-learned the language: more or less uses the words that represent the correct concepts, but not always the best pick and really often missing or wrongly used diacritics (ā, č, ē, ģ, ī, ķ, ļ, ņ, š, ū, ž). In a word, some basis of the language is there, but sadly in practice it's still unusable. So far working with Latvian text I need to maintain EuroLLM running in parallel, which has great Latvian knowledge, but at the same time just knows less (not a model that's good for programming) and doesn't know how to call tools as well and isn't really meant for long contexts: https://huggingface.co/collections/utter-project/eurollm-66b... …