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Getting one's grammar, vocab, etc. corrected easily - jettyke - 2011-06-12
Lang-8 is so tiresome. I try to correct every slightly longer message/e-mail before sending it and it takes a long time and is kinda demotivating lately.
Anyone know any easier and faster ways of getting one's grammar or so checked before sending?
In English we have spell-checker on when we type, but this kinda thing would be almost useless in Jap. And I don't know any good programs either.
I wanna be confident in that I won't reinforce incorrect grammar when writing, and also that other people will find my messages easy to read.
Getting one's grammar, vocab, etc. corrected easily - aphasiac - 2011-06-12
Language swap? form a close relationship with a Japanese interested in learning english (throught japanguide.com, lang8 or sharedtalk) and then agree to email each other stuff to correct on a regular basis?
Either that is a Japanese significant other. Can't really see any other way apart from paying someone..
Getting one's grammar, vocab, etc. corrected easily - nest0r - 2011-06-12
As a general idea, you might find this interesting: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?pid=92735#pid92735
Overture's plugin and (hopefully) upcoming reminder plugin stuff has me interested in concepts of o+N at the moment.
And of course there's also KWIC concordancing tools to quickly find examples, e.g. AntConc or GlobeFish's phrase validation and similar web stuff.
Edit: Oops, forgot to mention why I pointed that out, I meant as a general principle to follow, might find stuff kept relatively minimal easier to produce, such as via microblogs/Twitter/etc.
I also mentioned text-to-speech as proofreading in that o+N thread and also: proofreading with textaloud
I also found this, but it has some of the same limitations I found with Globefish (and sadly TaylorDigital's Twitter search seems to be down, but Twitter has improved its Japanese exact phrase searching I think plus there's always Google Realtime): http://twitter.com/#!/ajatt/status/75166456123363328
Getting one's grammar, vocab, etc. corrected easily - jettyke - 2011-06-12
I like the TTS hotkey thing, didn't know about it.
Realtime and JRek are also promising
Getting one's grammar, vocab, etc. corrected easily - nest0r - 2011-06-12
I tend to use the Speak Text hotkey more than the Proofreading option (i.e. playing from the background vs. popping up a window and highlighting the text as it reads it), especially for sentences such as in the 8555 DOJG deck, though I think Proofreading can become more appealing when you're dealing with longer texts.