{"id":798,"date":"2019-03-12T17:59:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T00:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/?p=798"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:59:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T00:59:27","slug":"languagetool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/2019\/03\/12\/languagetool\/","title":{"rendered":"LanguageTool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.languagetool.org\/\"><b>LanguageTool<\/b><\/a>\u00a0is a web-based grammar tool, useful for correcting texts in many languages or for checking your spelling.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-19-at-6.26.12-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-803 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-19-at-6.26.12-PM-300x188.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-19-at-6.26.12-PM-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-19-at-6.26.12-PM-768x481.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-19-at-6.26.12-PM-479x300.png 479w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-19-at-6.26.12-PM.png 976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LanguageTool supports a large number of languages, including many not offered at Reed. These include: Asturian, Belarusian, Breton, Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, French, Galician, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Per<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-19-at-6.24.02-PM.png\">r<\/a>sian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Ukranian.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-802 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-19-at-6.24.02-PM-300x219.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-19-at-6.24.02-PM-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-19-at-6.24.02-PM-411x300.png 411w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-19-at-6.24.02-PM.png 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LanguageTool is much more powerful than its competitors BonPatron and Reverso, allowing 20,000 characters (about 2,500 words). It also allows for correction of different dialects\/regions, e.g., Swiss and Austrian German, or Brazilian vs Portugal Portuguese.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-19-at-6.24.16-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-804 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-19-at-6.24.16-PM-300x202.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-19-at-6.24.16-PM-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/files\/2018\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-09-19-at-6.24.16-PM.png 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grammatical explanations are only in the language, for example French or German. LanguageTool also has a useful Google Chrome <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/languagetool-grammar-and\/oldceeleldhonbafppcapldpdifcinji\">extension<\/a> and a Google Docs <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/languagetool\/kjcoklfhicmkbfifghaecedbohbmofkm\">add-on<\/a>, which allow the user to correct text while typing online or in a Doc, as well as an add-on for Microsoft Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LanguageTool\u00a0is a web-based grammar tool, useful for correcting texts in many languages or for checking your spelling.\u00a0 LanguageTool supports a large number of languages, including many not offered at Reed. These include: Asturian, Belarusian, Breton, Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, French, Galician, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Perrsian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Chinese (Simplified), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/2019\/03\/12\/languagetool\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LanguageTool&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,73,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-levels","category-general","category-other-langs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}