How to check is something sound ok for a native speaker?

plissy

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So i'm not a native english speaker as you can see And sometimes it's difficult to understand does my phrase sounds good to an ear of a native speaker. It's not a problem for most of the time, but sometimes i need to check does the title of blogpost sounds good or is it ok to name youtube channel like this? If there is any varient to check this? I have no idea except of hire a proofreader for sentence or two.

 

BeneFits

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Hey Plissy,
Tough one, I use grammarly, its free and checks against grammar mistakes etc... (I believe they even have a chrome extension, if you use the chrome browser)
Now if you need it to be sounding fluent, the only solution indeed is proofreading by a native (or equivalent level) speaker...

 

Sebastiann

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Have you tried Grammarly?

https://www.grammarly.com
No matter if you've been speaking English for one week or your entire life, I believe everyone can benefit from having the Chrome plugin installed to improve emails, forum posts, chat, etc.

But more importantly, no online tool will be as useful as investing the time in really learning English. You should find a native speaker that wants to learn your language and start a language exchange over Skype. It will sharpen your fluency up much faster than any app.

 

plissy

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Thanks for advices, i'll try grammarly.

 

Luke Gage

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Try sharing it among your friends. a few general feedbacks should help you solve the issue.

 

plissy

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Luke Gage said:

Try sharing it among your friends. a few general feedbacks should help you solve the issue.

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I have no english speaking friends, so it wouldn't work.

Just checked grammarly - it's pretty amazing, but still not enough. And then i checked fiverr and found out a lot of proofreaders, some of them take only 10-20$ for 1000 words.

 

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MisterF

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plissy said:

I have no english speaking friends, so it wouldn't work.

Just checked grammarly - it's pretty amazing, but still not enough. And then i checked fiverr and found out a lot of proofreaders, some of them take only 10-20$ for 1000 words.

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Hey

$20 per 1k words you can hire writers to get the content written and if there's regular work you might be able to grab a native English speaker.

 

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mattvei

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hire it out, then no worries