German Writing Correction Tool
Welcome to my writing correction tool for German learners.
Put in a sentence or short text and get detailed feedback on mistakes, weak areas to work on, a translation and a corrected version.
Put in a sentence or short text and get detailed feedback on mistakes, weak areas to work on, a translation and a corrected version.
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I often have this ” Something went wrong” problem, especially when the text is more than a few words or a simple sentence. It feels like a capacity problem – is the tool simply too popular for its own good?
This is a feature that is so useful that I would happily pay a regular premium for a reliable variant.
Hmm, weird, it’s not that popular and as far as I can tell it’s not a bandwidth problem. I sometimes am out of credits at the AI and have to recharge ( i do that so I keep an eye on the cost) but that hasn’t happened this month. Could you maybe copy one text where it happened? Also, what happens if you just resubmit the same text again? Let me know please, I definitely want to have this stable :)
Thanks for the quick answer. Today it is working fine so at the moment i cant send a sample. In the past when it has not worked I have tried submitting the same text 3 – 4 times, normally getting the same problem, but occasionally it will suddenly start working..
The following sentence failed 4 times before generating a response.
Erster Versuch an einen Seitenstandfestpunkt demontiert. Zweite Version gemacht, dass 20mm niedriger ist.
I too am having problems on my laptop with the ChatGPT Sentence Correction Tool. I keep getting ‘Something went wrong. Please try again.’ It is one of the few features that I use repeatedly on your site.
I was out of credits and had to buy more. And a few days ago, a model I was using was retired silently so none of thee tools were working for a few days. Should be back up now, sorry for that.
I have just spent 5 days copyediting a professional treatise draft in English that included someone not knowing that criteria is plural and that the singular in the US is commonly criterion and not criterium, so forgive me please for noting the following in your description:
“It may overlook mistakes and sometimes even [DELETE: mention] invent one.”
“If there are too many mistakes at once, it might only find SOME of them.”
“Sometimes, a spelling MISTAKE can throw the system off balance.”
Side thought – to ease the burden on your AI budget, is it possible to develop and market a module that people can buy and add to their AI tool, so that they pay you for the development and then pay for their own AI usage? Just thinking…
the writing correction tool doesn’t seem to be working! I enter the text and click on ‘check text’ and nothing happens. I’ve been using it successfully for months. :(((
That’s a caching issue. I have updated the tool and added a follow up question option. Are you on mobile or laptop/desktop?
It’ll solve itself with time, but you can speed it up via the browser if you’re not on mobile.
I’m using a desktop. What do you mean ‘speed it up via the browser’? I’ve cleared the history and cache files – just for the past 24 hours .. maybe that’s not enough? Anyway, I just the correction tool again and it’s still not working .. for me anyway :(
That’s what I meant actually. That should technically solve it. Could you try ctrl+f5 (windows)?
It works on my computer on all browsers and logged in and logged out.
Do you know how to read developer console? If yes, could you tell me what it says there?
I use a Linux os. I tried ctrl+f5 anyway and it did something but it still doesn’t work. “Do you know how to read developer console? ” is that the view page source? … the answer to your question is ‘no’. :) If no one else has mentioned this no longer working, maybe it’s just my computer … however it DID work … and was very handy.
okay … I just checked the other AI things you have and none of them work for me. So it must be my computer. waaaa. I’ll try the cache thing again.
Could you try an incognito window?
It makes no sense to me that the other tools also don’t work.
If you send me an email, I could also walk you through how to give me the console log read that I’d need. It’s easy once you know where to click.
wow! it works in incognito … in Firefox “private window”. that’s odd.
here’s the email … [email protected]
New respect for Chatty, catching the following Musikwissenschaft error here. Extra points for not being the D-bag mentioning that Das Lied von der Erde is actually Mahler’s ninth symphony, but he didn’t count it as a symphony for fear of the “curse of the Ninth”…which makes his Ninth his actual Tenth. If anyone’s gonna get D-bag points for that, it’s gonna be me!
Original
Mahler hat zehn Symphonien verfasst.
Corrected
Mahler hat neun Symphonien verfasst.
Mahler composed nine symphonies.
Explanation
Lol wow, it’s not really supposed to correct “the content”, but I didn’t make it explicit either, so I guess it was just eager to correct SOMETHING here, since the sentence itself was pitch perfect.
The new graphic is nice but since is there the button check test doesn t work anymore for me (apple with safari). Hilfe!
You’ll have to clear the browser cache. Safari is particularly obstinate when it comes to updating files that have changed. I can’t trigger that remotely.
Oh, ja, jetzt funktioniert es wieder. Vielen dank!
I love the change to the ChatGPT Sentence Correction Tool. Thanks for continuing to tend your beautiful YDG garden!
Oh, I did that yesterday evening :). It’s really nice to see that people notice and appreciate these little improvements that go kind of below the radar. I’ll do the other AI tools as well and I’m open to suggestions for this one, if you have any. Should I add audio maybe? Like, have the option to hear your sentence?
I like how you reduced the amount of scrolling needed to enter text. Is it possible to similarly reduce the space between the “Check Text” button and the “original sentence/corrected sentence/explanation”?
I appreciate the thoughtfulness required to direct ChatGPT to check input and have a broad range of explanations. You save us the dreadful task of repeatedly setting the parameters for the corrections (**and monthly/annual GPT membership fees**).
Blessings upon your house!!
Do you mean on mobile or on desktop?
Hi Emanuel, the correction tool doesn’t seem to be working,please can you advise. I find it a very beneficial learning tool. best wishes Linda
Should be back up, sorry I messed something up with the updates.
No worries, ,many thanks for the prompt reply
This app is GREAT. I’m actually using it to speak phrases which may pop into my head. Nice addition!
That is great APP, got some questions corrected, loved the explanation, learning with this tool thanks.
Happy to hear that. If you’re on Chrome Desktop, you can check out my browser extension. It’s a grammar explainer basically.
Hallo Emanuel – wie heißt die Extension? Danke
Here’s the link:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-grammar-analyzer-by-yo/dbekogoohigpdgepedgkbhekpmknhdfd
Hello, the tool seems to work but the answer stops after a few sentences. Is there a way to say to GPT to continue outputting?
No, people/bots are misusing this if it’s open/unlimited access, so I have to cut it short. It’s not meant to correct texts or paragraphs. Only single sentences.
I can make the allowed answer length a bit longer though, if you think it’s generally too short.
Ahh, understandable. I think there is no need for the output to be longer in this case. I had written a short “A1” level (I suppose lol) email and wanted to check it for any mistakes. I will just input the sentences one by one the next time. Thanks for clarifying!
Ah….! The exact question I have! What is the word limit you have set?
I was writing a feedback/ completing my child’s kindergarten form and realised the paragraph was cut short so I had to do it several times to get a complete grammar check.
It’s 400 tokens, which is about 300 words.
Hi Emanuel, the AI Sentence Correction Tool seems to be not working. I receive this error ‘”Sorry, no analysis could be generated.”
Hi, OpenAI recently switched their billing method and I now have to buy credits in advance. Which is okay, but apperantly they give ZERO notification when they run out, and instead just stop processing requests. That’s what happened here, so it should work again.
It is working now. Thanks
Hi Dear Emanuel,
Your AI tools have stoped working I think…Would you please look into the matter?
Thank you so much.
I had reached a spending limit I set to keep track of expenses and this months we reached it. It should work again now.
Hallo Emanuel. I’m using your website almost daily, especially the ChatGPT Sentence Correction Tool.
Sometimes the tool is infuriating! For example:“Es vergingen einige Tage, bis sie uns anriefen”is corrected to…“Es vergingen einige Tage, bis sie uns anrieft”
ChatGPT says “The conjugation of the verb ‘anrufen’ in the past tense (Präteritum) should match the subject ‘sie’ (in this case, referring to a singular female ‘she’ rather than plural ‘they’). ‘Anriefen’ is the plural form, while ‘anrief’ is the singular form, which is the correct form needed in this sentence.
I guess it arbitrarily chooses singular female “she” as what I meant to say? Rather than the plural “they” (which was my intention)
But overall, I find it very useful and informative. Thanks again for all your efforts!
Oh yeah, that sounds like a GPt “correction” to make. It’s quite “eager” to make corrections, so it will tend to do stuff like this, and it also sounds a bit bossy about it, which can indeed be infuriating, if you know it’s actually correct.
There’s not much I can do about this unfortunately, except I could offer a sort of chat option where you can ask follow up questions, but I don’t have time for that at the moment :/.
However, you can try and append a disclaimer to the end of the sentence if something like this happens. Just now, I added “(sie is a plural)” to your example and GPT treated it correctly and said there was nothing to correct.
Not a big deal, but I thought I’d let you know – the tool seems to be inserting a period before evaluating the entry. If the user enters a period, the tool flags it as incorrectly containing a double period because the tool inserted a period as well.
Example:
I enter: Ich wohne in einem kleinen Haus (no period)
Tool: There are no mistakes in the original sentence.
I enter: Ich wohne in einem kleinen Haus. (with period)
Tool: Extra punctuation: There was an unnecessary extra period at the end of the sentence.
Does this happen on your side as well?
I did see that, actually. It was a questionable period in the prompt I have constructed. Should work now.
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Hallo Emanuel. Thank you for your website. It has helped me get a better grasp of the German language and has helped me learn German.
I hadn’t tried any of the ChatGPT features until the article during the Advent Calendar last month. I use the ChatGPT Sentence Correction Tool every day to check what I want to say and it’s amazing. I also use the ChatGPT Story feature to discover vocabulary for themes I want to know more about that I use frequently in my life. These tools have become essential in my pursuit to learn German and I wanted to take the time to thank you very much.
Unfortunately, I went to use the GPT Sentence tool today and it kept telling me it couldn’t generate a story. I am not sure what has happened but I wanted to let you know.
Thanks again for all your hard work. Your hard work has helped me understand the nuances of the German language much better.
-Marc in Seattle
Hi Marc, vielen Dank für das tolle Feedback!!
I’m super happy to hear that there are some members out there who really use and appreciate these features.
The plan is actually to make these into an app, but I have a bunch of projects in parallel so things take time :).
I screwed up the sentence correction tool on acccident today when I was upgrading my dictionary with ChatGPT, but I think I fixed it now.
Might take a full reload (ctrl+f5), but I had the same bug that you saw and now it’s working again.
Oh, and I also saw that the sentence correction is in bad need of some proper formatting. I’ll fix that right away.
Boah! Vielen Dank für das neueste Format. Es gefällt mir sehr gut. Ich hoffe, das du eine tolle Woche hast.
Zwei Daumen hoch!
Danke :)!
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