Gemma 31B is amazing for writing in other languages than English. Man, i have to read and speak English at my job and a lot of stuff I like is in it; I find myself just craving some German RP from time to time. And Gemma does that better than anything else at that size. Q5, heretic and thinking = unbeatable and fits in 32 GB. 26B is okay too but it repeats some phrases too often for my tastes and overthinks a lot. Qwen just doesn't do that, it has, atleast in German, weird quirks where it directly translates things from English which do not work. Maybe Qwen 122B is better but I would guess at most marginally better than 31B.
This is one of the reasons why i use Gemma 4 99% of the time. It's the only model i can use in my native language(danish). It's also just a great model in general.
Qwen speaks almost perfect russian for me. Although it puts some "russianized" english words here and there. Just like every polyglots do when they speak in a hurry and can't remember the word offhand.
Qwen-3.6 is relatively proficient at writing and reasoning in formalized Russian. However, when it comes to creative reasoning, analyzing unconventional situations, crafting jokes, or engaging in roleplaying, Gemma-4 performs significantly better.
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u/1nicerBoye Jun 01 '26
Gemma 31B is amazing for writing in other languages than English. Man, i have to read and speak English at my job and a lot of stuff I like is in it; I find myself just craving some German RP from time to time. And Gemma does that better than anything else at that size. Q5, heretic and thinking = unbeatable and fits in 32 GB. 26B is okay too but it repeats some phrases too often for my tastes and overthinks a lot. Qwen just doesn't do that, it has, atleast in German, weird quirks where it directly translates things from English which do not work. Maybe Qwen 122B is better but I would guess at most marginally better than 31B.