Perfect. I am using LanguageTool in Chrome on my PC, and it finds a lot of issues with my sentences. Having this in my phone would be nice. I hope it gets support for German soon.

It looks like it's using LanguageTool in the background (which you can use without all the ads -- https://languagetool.org/), and it seems to do okay for spelling, but it's certainly not going to be all that helpful for grammar. For example, if you plug an excerpt from the following humorous poem (which is intentionally written with multiple major grammatical errors), it will not find any errors at all:

Зеленых трав ложится под ногами,
И сам к бумаге тянется рука.
И я шепчу дрожащие губами:
«Велик могучим русский языка!»

Thanks for the feedback, I was worried I was using too many comma's left and right. I'm using the https://languagetool.org/ plugin to correct most of my abhorrent spelling.

This was just the intro.

Work on chapter 1 has started. I really didn't expect this amount of endorphin levels from people reading a story I wrote.

Could always consider trying LanguageTool instead.

It's a free and open-source alternative to Grammarly and pretty good.

It's free, has no ads, code is visible on GitHub, has support for many languages, and if you're a non-profit you can get the plus/proprietary version or free too. No account is needed to give it a quick test on the websites homepage too.

https://languagetool.org/

https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

It's meant as a help though. Your punctuation and spelling do need considerable work, no offense, and the bot only mentioned a single of your many mistakes. If you want your voice to be heard in a discussion and taken seriously, writing reasonably well, with correct spelling, punctuation and sentence structure, helps a lot.

I'm curious why you're frequently chaining sentences and half sentences after another with lots of periods. I've seen this "style" elsewhere (and in several different languages), but it never made any sense to me.

If you need a good spell check that works in your browser or as a standalone program, I can recommend this tool:

https://languagetool.org/

It'll detect most spelling and many grammar mistakes.

It IS possible to make it with javascript, although I think it will be a bit complicated. Maybe you want to make something like https://languagetool.org/? Although that project is in Java. Btw I wonder if you are possibly from Denmark because of the firm rules about comma.

I don't want to offend you, but this is barely legible. Please for the sake of all of us and yourself find and use a spell-checking solution that works for you.

Every mobile OS should have some sort of spell-check you may have to activate first. On PC, I'd recommend Language Tool. It's by far the most capable software of its kind I've tried and is even good at correcting grammar and punctuation.

>Je dois avouer que le français est une langue extrêmement dur à apprendre.

Lifehack! Installe dans to navigateur une extension "Language Tools" ou "Grammarly". Ça ne corrige pas que l'orthographe, mais aussi la grammaire. Ça aide avec tous ces problèmes pas évidents de masculin/féminin etc.

Par exemple dans la phrase ci-dessus il propose "dure" au lieu de "dur".

Ça m'a énormément aidé quand j'apprenais l'anglais, et j'ai un ami Espagnol que ça a énormément aidé pour le Français (surtout au travail).

https://languagetool.org/

Data from Reddit API.

Top 5000 comments from top posts (Top 50 comments per post) for top the 100 user created subreddits.

Python script to download data.

https://languagetool.org for processing comment data for punctuation, grammar, and case errors.

HTML/CSS/JS to create chart.

Data is from June 20th, 2021.

Agree with a lot of the comments in here. Grammar checkers are a great tool, but as any tool, it isn't perfect. All languages have a long list of grammar exceptions or complicated nuances, and automatic tools tend to have problems with the more obscure ones, such as some aspects of academic writing. I'm just starting in my field, and English isn't my native language, so I find a grammar tool invaluable. It doesn't save you from learning proper grammar, as you should know when the tool is wrong, because it will be wrong in some scenarios.

I personally find that Grammarly Premium is prohibitively expensive for me, and looking for alternatives I found LanguageTool (https://languagetool.org), it is an open source grammar checker with a cheaper hosted premium option and good extensions for browsers.

Najgorsze, że są do tego odpowiednie narzędzia, tylko z nich nie korzystają. Pomijając zwykłe sprawdzanie pisowni (Wordy czy przeglądarkowe), jest np. languagetool.org, który pomoże dopasować styl itp.

Trzeba tylko chcieć...

Would be correct. You could also say:
"Bitte wählen Sie das höchst abgeschlossene Bildungsniveau aus."

But its basicly just rearanging the Sentence.
Try looking at: https://languagetool.org/de/

It can help you find grammatical Errors in Sentences etc. especially useful if you write long and compelx sentences in a Business Enviroment.

Wenn du viel Spaß hast, ist das bestimmt eine gute Methode.

Für Korrekturen ist es eine gute Idee, vorher Korrektursoftware zu verwenden. Kopiere deinen Text z.B. mal nach https://languagetool.org/ und lass da mal nach Fehlern checken. Tippfehler zu korrigieren ist eher langweilig und es ist sinnvoller, wenn das eine Maschine oder du selbst machst.

Dann können andere sich auf die Fehler konzentrieren, die du selbst und auch die Software nicht korrigieren können.

LanguageTool is a pretty good writing assistant, and their free plan is a bit more generous than Grammarly's free plan. You can add LT to Google Docs, LibreOffice or your browser if you like.

To organise my longer stories, I use the Novelist app on my phone. It's a bit like Notion, but specifically for writing. It's really nice for plotting and working out scenes and chapters, and you can create entries for characters and locations. Definitely recommend giving it a go. It's free.

English ain't my first language but things like "a new way*s", " a year teaching in the **in the* public sector" and " I can definitely say that since I started been using a more" would make me recommend a spellchecker, to begin with, but given that your introductory sentence also has a typo in it, I can't help but wonder whether your keyboard might be broken. In any case, using languagetool.org or grammarly already goes a long way.

LanguageTool is a free, open-source grammarchecker.

Note: Don't rely too much on many of the grammar tools out there though. They typically have many false positives, and can easily make your work much worse. They aren't a substitute for actual grammar knowledge.

Note #2: Different tools also catch different errors. Word may catch some that LanguageTool misses, and vice versa.

Try https://languagetool.org/. It's free.

It will mark "Ich hat" and suggest corrections for that. You should be able to correct that by yourself.

Also: It's probably "Ich habe wirklich Spaß gehabt" or "Es hat wirklich Spaß gemacht."

Schreiben ist schwerer als Sprechen? Hmm.... naja, ich hätte eher auf Sprechen getippt, weil man da neben Hören noch Sätze frei formulieren muss und man viel weniger wenig Zeit zum Nachdenken hat. Aber naja, vielleicht meinst du mit "wissenschaftlichem Text" auch ein ziemlich hohes Schreibniveau.

Was die Korrektur angeht, so ist es völlig normal, nur fehlerhafte Stellen zu markieren und nur dann Kommentare zu schreiben, wenn es unwahrscheinlich erscheint, dass du den Grund oder die Lösung für das Problem nicht selbst finden kannst. Die Sorgfalt hängt auch stark von der Arbeitsbelastung des Lehrers ab: Es macht einen Unterschied, ob das 10 oder 100 Korrekturen sind. Dann kommt noch der menschliche Faktor dazu: Wenn bei der Korrektur der Eindruck entsteht, dass es viele unnötige Fehler gibt (oder chaotischer Stil / schlecht erkennbare Handschrift / wiederkehrende aber bereits besprochene Fehler / ...), reduziert das auch die Motivation des Korrektors.

Was deinen Text angeht:

• Nach "Es könnte sein, dass .." kommt Indikativ, nicht Konjunktiv

• Schwächen bei der Konjugation und Deklination

Fütter damit mal https://languagetool.org und gehe die (vermutlich) fehlerhaften Stellen mal durch.

In addition to the other comments: If you throw your text into https://languagetool.org/, it will also detect at least three problems ("..Ich..", missing comma, "...Die..") and will also recommend to not start three consecutive sentences with "Ich".

It's a very useful tool.

Σε γουστάρει... λιγο. Απλος πες μου σε ποιο μπαρ παίζεις για να μην μας σφάξει.

Περα απο την πλακα. Πες της κομμένα ολα τα greeklish.

Υπάρχουν autocorrect σε ολα τα πληκτρολόγια στο κινητο. Κια απο firefox chrome υπάρχει αυτο:

https://languagetool.org/

I personally use a free open source alternative called languagetool

It has integrations to work with vim or emacs with latex which is really nice.

Or, there's textidote if you just want to check a plain LaTeX file after you finish writing your paper instead of getting distracted as you write it: https://sylvainhalle.github.io/textidote/

Finally, if you're using a basic text editor, you can just paste in your document here: https://languagetool.org

Thanks!

> artha

You might like LanguageTool - Online Grammar, Style & Spell Checker. I use its extension for Firefox with the server on my notebook.

LanguageTool embedded HTTP Server | dev.languagetool.org

> sct

You might like accessibility/gammy

I second this, LanguageTool is fantastic. I use it in college for all of my writing. (Even this comment) I have never used Grammarly, so I cannot comment on the differences there, but LT was cheaper and open source.

Ist auch nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis es adäquate Software/Browser gibt, die automatisch in leichte Sprache übersetzen (im Englischen gibt es zumindest in der Forschung schon richtig gute Ansätze).

https://languagetool.org/de/leichte-sprache/

Languagetools hat auch einen Leichte-Sprache-Checker neben der hervorragenden Extension, für den man allerdings noch manuell eingreifen muss. Dennoch, was alleine die letzten zehn Jahre an technologischer Innovation für Barrierefreiheit getan haben, ist phänomenal.

>wielu moich czytelnikow mialoby klopoty z polskimi znakami diakrytycznymi, i zamiast nich mieliby krzaczki

Możesz rozwinąć? Przecież to już nie te czasy, UTF-8 jest standardem.

PS Do korekty tekstów polecam languagetool.org

I'm using a browser extension from https://languagetool.org/ and it's extremely handy for inserting the correct accent marks in common phrases.

Admittedly, it did fail with Édith Piaf, (bad with personal names) but it's a godsend when you're referring to a lot of foreign terms and phrases in English text. Also works well with quite a lot of technical terms, acronyms etc. that common spellcheckers fall over on.

Plus I typo like a mofo, so it's useful in that regard.

There isn't native support for it in Firefox, unfortunately. What I can recommend is the extension from https://languagetool.org/

Here's the link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/languagetool/

I use it since a few months now, and it's pretty good.

em relação aos erros... para alem do corretor do word faço uma revisão em https://languagetool.org/

Acredita que estive quase para dar 60 euros por um programa de correção ortográfica chamado Flip mas felizmente encontrei esse site. o programa era caro demais do que eu estava disposto a dar e tambem pela pouca utilização que ia ter

LanguageTool is very similar to Grammarly, but supports more languages, it also supports Portuguese. I don't know how good it is in Portuguese, as I don't speak Portuguese, but I use it for English and German, and it's as good as Grammarly in those languages.

Sorry I didn't mention - they have a tasty privacy policy with clear details about what and when they collect: https://languagetool.org/legal/privacy

I was rather asking aren't they involved in a known sculduggery of not following their own declarations. :)

Their money comes from freemium model - it's free for medium sized texts and paid if you need to check big texts.

I guess I'm answering my own question here. Thanks for asking the right follow-up questions, trai_dep!

Yeah I'd highly recommend LanguageTool. Here's their privacy policy: https://languagetool.org/legal/privacy

I guess they have a desktop version that runs locally and doesn't send any of your text through the internet, but I haven't tried that at all.

Setting up LanguageTool

• Install jdk (java)
• Download "Desktop version for offline use" <https://languagetool.org/>

• Extract it and put it somewhere, for example:

  ~/bin/LanguageTool

• Configure emacs

  (use-package langtool :custom (langtool-language-tool-jar "~/bin/LanguageTool/languagetool-commandline.jar") (langtool-language-tool-server-jar "~/bin/LanguageTool/languagetool-server.jar") (langtool-server-user-arguments '("-p" "8082")) (langtool-default-language "en-US"))

• To check current buffer and show warnings.

  M-x langtool-check

Add german dictionary to aspell

• Download the German dictionary. <https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/0index.html>

• Install it.

  ./configure make sudo make install

• The location where the dictionary is installed.

  /usr/lib/aspell/

Configure flyspell

(use-package flyspell :custom (ispell-program-name "aspell") ;; Default dictionary. To change do M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET. (aspell-dictionary "en_GB-ise-wo_accents") (aspell-program-name "/usr/bin/aspell") (ispell-dictionary "en_GB-ise-wo_accents") (ispell-program-name "/usr/bin/aspell") :config (define-key flyspell-mode-map [down-mouse-3] 'flyspell-correct-word) (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode) ;; Enable Flyspell mode for TeX modes such as AUCTeX. Highlights all misspelled words. (add-hook 'TeX-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode) ;; Enable Flyspell program mode for emacs lisp mode, which highlights all misspelled words in comments and strings. (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode))

(use-package flyspell-correct :bind ("C-;" . flyspell-correct-wrapper))

Your link doesn't work, do you mean?

https://languagetool.org/de/

It's definitely a very good tool (maybe the best available) but doesn't catch all the errors. OP, I'm afraid there's no tool that can find everything, they skip much more than native speakers and proficient lerners would.

• your first "when" can't be translated as "wann"

• "In Deutschland gehen Kinder mit sechs Jahren zur Schule."

• "Ich jetzt Schluss." is lacking the verb

For more hints you could use (free) software tools like https://languagetool.org/. You should be able to correct most of the detected issues by yourself. Then your text is almost perfect.

Your vocabulary is quite good (B2?), but your sentence structures are often simple (A2/B1) or incorrect ("... Religion weil es ist interessant"). So maybe practice that a bit more.

languagetool can find some of these issues, although not all of them and not the one in your wrong example. In general it's a good tool and works great with LibreOffice.

http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibpruefung-online/ can find the mistake in your example, but it's not free and limited to 800 characters.

For firefox there is an extension called languageTool, which can be used to spell check a text selection. It is not ideal, but it is handy until a more native solution comes around.

I have not specifically used grammarly packages. But I have been using langtool with emacs and org mode. I found this to be good enough for me.
https://languagetool.org/
https://melpa.org/#/langtool

Also are there any tools available for proof reading apart from classic spell check?

https://prowritingaid.com/ ←--- my preferred one. https://languagetool.org/ https://www.grammarly.com/

Note, I actually use all three, and there are a few other decent ones as well.

Hmm, I see but basically, I wanted to make something similar to what spell checkers do like languagetool.org for example. Any idea on how can I do something like it with Django?

I write my docs/blog with nvim and markdown. For more advanced checks, I use vim-grammarous for (offline) integration of languagetool

I know it's frustrating, and I hear you.

I use LanguageTool and Google Docs to find my errors. And oh, do I have many because my fingers can't keep up with my brain. As another comment mentioned, Grammarly is also helpful. You can install either software for free onto Google Docs, and find it in "Add-ons."

> unlike over-the-air broadcasters like CBS

You make the assumption that CBS isn't a cable broadcast company despite the fact that they have two forms of broadcast... just like Fox Broadcasting and Fox News are different and are aired differently.

> Then when it was pointed out to you that the show you're criticizing is on an over-the-air broadcaster

You forget the limitation that there has to be a crime or catastrophe that would be misrepresented intentionally and/or would cause public harm. They have an extremely slim amount of leeway due to the First Amendment.

> Now, I know you're a fan of good grammar, so I'll say first of all this is not a sentence. I think what you mean is you can't trust any news that you haven't searched out yourself and fact checked.

Wrong again. My point is simply that you can't trust any news not broadcast on over-the-air or that you searched out yourself and fact checked.

My point is simply that you can't trust any news not broadcast on over-the-air or that you searched out yourself and fact checked.

My grammar was fine and that is a complete sentence.

> This, of course, is stupid on its face. Nobody has the resources or time to fact check every news organization's output, which is why we have the FCC and libel laws.

Then only check the big things if you choose. The FCC has such a narrow margin by which they can restrict a broadcaster it is laughable. You have to do your own fact checking in today's society if you want to have any assurance of truth. Even when you do your own fact checking, you can easily miss things and it isn't a guarantee.

> It just didn't apply

It applies to all major media outlets provided through private networks.

> the data that was sent was not kept for any longer than it took to process it.

yeah, but the extension does not collect it at all.

from their privacy policy:

> We don't store the text that you submit for style and grammar checking on languagetool.org, with the following exceptions: > > When you use our online editor at https://languagetool.org/editor or our desktop app, your texts are stored on our server. They will be deleted once you move them to the recycle bin and then delete them there. > If you explicitly submit feedback, for example about false alarms or undetected errors, we store that feedback. > If you accept corrections, we log the internal rule id of that error (this is something like ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE for word repetition errors). > If you explicitly ignore corrections, we log the internal rule id of that error and the text fragment marked as incorrect (i.e. the small part of the sentence that was underlined as an error) and 15 characters to the left and to the right of the fragment. This enables us to analyze and avoid false alarms. > In case of an internal software error (which is extremely rare), we log the sentence that caused the error so we can reproduce and fix the error. The sentence can be stored for up to 14 days.

If you read and write enough, it just starts to come naturally. At least it did with me. There are also websites and apps that'll check your base grammar and spelling for free. I still run a lot a stuff through this: https://languagetool.org/ because it catches a lot of stuff for free and even gives a little bit of advice about what you may have done wrong. Now of course this probably isn't universal, but I hope it helps.

Gramma does not use Grammarbot - you can configure Gramma to use it, but by default it uses LanguageTool, it has better privacy policy.

This is fine for open-source projects and most other usages.

If you really have some sensitive data, Gramma allows you to use self-hosted instance of the LanguageTool server (it even has automated installation of the local server with gramma server install command).

>LanguageTool is a good alternative to Grammarly https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/languagetool/

It also exists for Chrome, Edge, Safari, Opera, Google Docs, LibreOffice, Word, Gmail, Thunderbird and a bunch of other software.

You should have linked their website instead of just the Firefox addon.

https://languagetool.org/

Partially answering wise_quote's question and expanding on yours.

All grammar checkers are a balance between privacy and convenience.

LanguageTool's Privacy Policy is about the most open on how they handle online text submissions. They also offer an offline system, but that requires a local server and database using several GB of hard drive space.

But if it was a concern, LanguageTool also includes a Thunderbird extension, giving you full access to grammar checks (including offline) while composing e-mails. If you then used ProtonMail's bridge (providing you have paid subscription), you could have a completely offline grammar checker integrated with ProtonMail inside Thunderbird.

It's not something I could advise on setting up, but if you ask on the ProtonMail and LanguageTool Reddit, I'm sure you'll find more information.

According to LanguageTool's plugins page, the add-on requires Java 8.

As an aside, I no longer use LanguageTool in Writer, it's too unstable, but have a look at the comments on LibreOffice's LanguageTool page. Several have said LanguageTool 4.1 is the only version that works in Writer 7.x.

I think you could use LanguageTool. It supports more than just English and provides Firefox addon. It should automatically detect spelling and other issues, and give you suggestions when you click on underlined words. Just note that by default it sends your text to their servers, but it is open source and you can self-host it if you want.

There are also other similar addons, one quite popular is Grammerly.

> is it still a key lohtet even without using an account? 1. It is 2. They can still figure out who you are (ip, cookies; if you installed their app device identifier, other apps you have installed, etc.)

> any privacy-minded alternatives

Don’t know for Android, but from a similar thread on this subreddit, https://languagetool.org/. I have not used it yet though

Edit: formatting

I use https://github.com/mhayashi1120/Emacs-langtool

In shell, run mkdir -p $HOME/opt && curl -o langtool.zip https://languagetool.org/download/LanguageTool-stable.zip && unzip langtool.zip -d $HOME/opt/ && rm -f langtool.zip to install the jar.

In ~/.emacs, insert (setq langtool-language-tool-jar "~/opt/LanguageTool-5.3/languagetool-commandline.jar").

Sorry to hear that.

Just a suggestion though, I wouldn't use Grammarly. According to their privacy policy, they store literally everything you type. Like, everything. Every single word and letter.

I'd suggest using LanguageTool instead :)

Anyway. I hope your issue gets resolved soon. Maybe try clearing cookies, if you haven't already?

There is https://languagetool.org/, which has a Chrome plug-in.

For work stuff, I use a combination of that and the Duden tool usually. They often catch slightly different things...

It looks like a good introduction to gangstalking to share with friends and family. I noticed a few typos. Is English your native language? I know you can re-upload the book on Amazon.

I would put it through something like https://languagetool.org/ and ask a friend who is a native English speaker to proofread it.

If you want to try Speech to Text there are two free ways through Google Docs (requires Gmail account) and Microsoft Office Online (requires Office account).

There are great grammar and spelling checkers out too. I know Grammarly is mentioned, but there's also LanguageTool.

Ulysses has this feature and it is incredibly useful for longer notes. Their outline shows all headers, with anchor links to their place in the note, and lists every link in the note, which was much more helpful than I initially thought it would be.

I know Ulysses is built for serious writers, and I've found Bear to be a much better fit for my combination of blogging, journaling, and PKM, but its outline feature and integration of Language Tool are the two things that I miss most when I'm using Bear.

Check out LanguageTool. I haven't seen any mention of it on this sub before, but it looks like it's open-source and can be self-hosted, so that's already way better than Grammarly.

Interesting. I recall someone working on language server integration with grammarly. There are also some neovim plugins that use the LanguageTool. Whats your opinion on using them instead of vis-spellcheck?

Würde statt Grammarly languagetool benutzen. Gibt auch eine Extension dafür.

Funktioniert mit Deutsch wunderbar. Man kann auch mehrere Sprachen einstellen und erkennt automatisch um welche es sich handelt.

Well if you are unsure you can just use a tool, or grammar checking website.

I mean yeah it can be viewed as a cheat by some snobs but if you are unsure there is no shame in using an aid or a tool.

I use LanguageTool personally, and it has improved my punctuation (plus it comes with a spellcheck) no shame in it really.

If you want something more advanced I also use pro writing aid to guide me sometimes, grammar was never my strong suit either, so I use that too, it's a paid service but worth looking into.

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Anyhow, here's a link to LanguageTool, it has extensions for Firefox and chrome based browsers (that includes the latest Microsoft Edge, brave browser, opera, Vivaldi etc)

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https://languagetool.org/

Not done similar, but it's a great idea. Our README.md files are full of errors and I didn't even think about going spell checks on them. I shall fix that!

There's several 3rd parties who claim to do spell and grammar checks. E.g. https://languagetool.org/proofreading-api (random example). It's not free, but you didn't specify "free" as a requirement.

Not sure about the 3rd person style, since it's not "wrong" unlike spelling and grammar which can be wrong. 3rd person active voice sounds like something I'd want to catch during a git pull request code review. But if you documentation comes from somewhere else, this might not be possible to do.

• Make sure you have the most recent version of Language Tool
• Go to Tools - Options in the menu.
• Select Writing Aids
• Uncheck the item Lightproof grammar checker (English)

More from languagetool.org...

If this doesn't help, try explicitly changing the language of the grammar checker to the German(Swiss) locale by using the LanguageTool options button, clicking the General tab, click Set language to and set the language to German(Swiss). If you still have problems, you can look for a fix or file an issue using languagetool.org forum.

Viel Glück!

You could try LanguageTool, it still send your keystrokes to a random server, but it (apparently) doesn't store them. And if you're not happy with that, you can host it yourself, that way you know exactly where they're going.

I like what it does, but it has serious privacy and security issues.

The more secure competitor is Language Tool but it’s not nearly as effective. It didn’t even catch errors I deliberately included to see if it would catch.

Grammarly’s privacy issues limit it’s usefulness in a professional setting because I can’t use it for a lot of documents.

I think something in you signature raises more questions than it solves problems.

Have you considered using an AI writing checker like Language Tool? It can be helpful in identifying things you won’t catch on a read or re-read.

This post from a year ago comes to mind:

• Why I removed Grammarly chrome extension and deleted my Grammarly account

LanguageTool appears to be a good alternative.

^(A simple search for 'grammarly privacy' got me this result. Admittedly, I knew about the post, however a quick search does the job.) ^(This sub is filling up with low effort posts)^(. Let's change that.)

Would the Language Tool extensions be helpful? I know there are at least two: this and this.

Grammarly is hier perfect voor, maar alleen Engels.

Een open source alternatief voor het Nederlands is: https://languagetool.org/nl/

Ik heb het zelf nooit geprobeerd, maar het is gratis, dus proberen kan geen kwaad.

You've missed a lot of commas. For example: “In this presentation I'll write about New Zealand a country...” should be “In this presentation I'll write about New Zealand, a country...”, etc.

In “...this means that New Zealand is a group of islands that is independent from other states...” probably should be “which are” or “that are”, instead of “that is”.

There are too many things to inspect, so try the (Language Tool)[https://languagetool.org/]. It will tell where did you make a mistake, not all mistakes, but still.

The license of the code for the extension does not prevent free use of the extension to check style and grammar.

Incidentally the Comparison of LanguageTool Editions makes clear that some editions do send texts to languagetool.org.

You can use LanguageTool. It is not 100% free, but the free stand-alone version and the add-ons for Open Office, Libre Office and Microsoft Office are excellent and will find most grammar mistakes. Paid versions of this open source program have a small advantage, but it's - in my eyes at least - not big enough to justify the cost for most users.

Here's a comparison table:

https://languagetool.org/compare

Another advantage of these free versions of LanguageTool is that they do not send any data over the Internet.

LanguageTool is a plugin from Germany that supports a lot of languages, including Esperanto. It has plugins for all sort of browsers, MS Word, Libre Office and Google Docs. https://languagetool.org/

Often there is a link (the explanation mark) with more information about the error. This helped me a lot to understand my errors.

LanguageTool is a plugin from Germany that supports a lot of languages, including Esperanto. It has plugins for all sort of browsers, MS Word, Libre Office and Google Docs. https://languagetool.org/

Often there is a link (the explanation mark) with more information about the error. This helped me a lot to understand my errors.

"Hilf mich" is an interesting example, thanks for that. The LanguageTool server from GitHub doesn't see any errors in that. So the bot is actually behaving correctly. (If you did type "hilf mich", then the bot will suggest "hilf -> Hilf".)

However, languagetool.org does seem to suggest the change to mir, instead of mich. Either this is a premium feature, or they are running a newer version that the current stable release. I don't think this is something I can fix soon. But I'll investigate about it.

https://languagetool.org/

From wikipedia

> LanguageTool is a free and open-source grammar checker, and all its features are available for download.[4] LanguageTool website connects to a proprietary sister project LanguageTool Plus, which provides improved error detection for English and German, as well as easier revision of longer texts, following the open-core model.

Just so you know, I didn't write the grammar checker myself. I merely used an open source grammar checker named LanguageTool, you can access it online at https://languagetool.org. You can find the source code for it in their GitHub, they even have a JAR for running your own server. What I did was make a bot that will connect to my local Langtool server and then reasonably parse the output.

It's useful in our German practice group because it points out mistakes in conversations which I find quite useful.

All I remember is this, but who knows if anything has changed:

https://techbeacon.com/security/grammarly-leaks-everything-youve-ever-typed-service-everything

alternative I've seen mentioned, but haven't tried is https://languagetool.org/

Watch a shit ton of videos in the language you want to learn with the subtitles in your language on. Then when you get comfortable with it, try with the subtitles but in the language you learn.

Personally, I'd recommend you trying to understand common language first and not a ton of vocabulary words like they do at school, it's draining.

Learning with the essentials (basic structure understanding and a bit of grammar) helps to understand the context and makes it easier to use new words.

I am no expert by all mean. I am a native French speaker and my English is far from perfect, but using it on daily basis made me fluent.

It more a matter of stumbling around and making mistakes rather than making bullet point perfect sentences every time, like school would like us to do.

Also, if they are available for your target language, try using a grammar, style and spell checker if available. It helps you understand the mistakes you make in a sentence pretty easily.

https://languagetool.org/ is a free one, and I'm even using it to check what I wrote here.

I personally love Grammarly. I only use the free version, but if I could afford the premium version, I'd definitely pay for it. Just keep in mind that it's not perfect, nor can it fully replace a trained person when it comes to reviewing the more nuanced parts of grammar and style, but I think it's a great "last line of defense" kind of thing to catch typos and oddball grammar mistakes.

I've also been using LanguageTool lately, which I think catches more sophisticated errors, but it also raises more false flags. I liked the Hemingway editor too but don't really use it anymore.

There is https://languagetool.org/de/ a Open-Source Tool which is not bad, but wouldn't catch everything.

I use it myself, works with LibreOffice just fine, how the integration works, I don't know as Linux user for the last 15 Years...

Have you heard of LanguageTool? It's got really useful spell and grammar checking. There's a guide on how to use it for TeX.

All GNU/LInux have openJDK pre-installed. Because its an open-source project!

You still need to download LanguageTool Desktop Version (offiline) on its site: https://languagetool.org/ (bottom)

Once you extract it any folder as Documents, you need to correctly point where the "command-line.jar" is to Emacs Langtool package as stated on its GitHub page!

Good day!

If you are too lazy and/or poor to consult a grammarian, you can use automated grammar tools to test this for yourself:

https://www.grammarcheck.net/editor/

https://www.scribens.com/

https://languagetool.org/

Your vocabulary looks good, but your sentence structure is often quite chaotic, which makes it quite hard to read.

According to your vocabulary and usage of Präteritum/Perfekt, it looks like you learn for level B1, but the issues with structure make it often look more like A2 or even A1, e.g.

> Danach Eva das Frühstück ihrer geschlossen wir wäsche wuschen denn..

looks like randomly connected words.

So you should really focus more on verb positions in main and subordinate clauses. That's probably the fastest way how to improve the quality of your texts.

Also: "gern" isn't a verb but an adverb: "Ich esse gern .."

I'd also recommend to use a spelling/grammar/style checker like https://languagetool.org/. You have lots of typos (especially regarding capitalization), which makes it look really sloppy. That can easily be avoided using (free) software for spell checking.

> Caso alguém também tope fazer de graça, eu vou escrever o texto aqui e sintam-se à vontade para criticar / elogiar.

Nesse caso um corretor de textos online pode quebrar-o-galho, op

tente esse https://languagetool.org/pt-BR/

You can try https://languagetool.org/ to correct a few errors, but it's not really necessary. All sentences can be understood very well.

Biggest issues:

• "brachte" instead of "verbrachte"

• "wieder" instead of "weder"

I use Language Tool called through emacs. I use LaTeX for most of my writing; Language Tool also catches extra spaces and newlines which are allowed in .tex so it can get very messy.