As a non-native speaker, I am always looking for ways to improve my English and DoPeopleSay is a kind of tool that could help me eliminate grammar and style errors (way better than Google exact search :)

Great work! Here are my two cents. @henadzit I would also like to see synonyms of the word they use instead. eg: if I search for "film", I would also like to see if people are mostly using "movie" Sameway, If I'm typing a big text, i would also like to see if there are any quick single word I can use instead. eg: "slow-moving or inactive" can be called "sluggish"

Awesome tool for non-native speakers! 😍 Definitely going to make use of this. Would be cool to have a vote-down system or a way to report when results aren't valid.

Very easy to use. I immediately understand if a phrase correct or not

Pros:

Very fast, simple

Cons:

Would love to see better suggestions when I'm wrong

Tried "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." It errors out saying "* Please, use English characters only." What...!!!

Hey ProductHunt, the creator of DoPeopleSay is here! The project is my attempt to help non-native English speakers to achieve better writing. As a non-native speaker myself, I often struggled to figure out if I use a word or phrase correctly. I used to google the phrase but it didn't quite work all the time. That's how I came across an idea to build a user-friendly full-text search service of spoken English. It took me a few weeks to build it and now I'm here (quite surprisingly thanks to @micrum). The service helps me a lot in my everyday writing. I hope it will helpful for you too! Looking forward to your feedback.

DoPeopleSay is a great project. What usually differentiates native speaker from non-native? Non-natives use 'outdated' version of language, the one they were taught in schools by non-native speaking teachers. When people start to communicate with native speakers they hear new phrases and words, but not always do they know how to use them correctly. So why this project is so cool. Right now it uses Reddit as it's source of a live 'up to date' language. The way real people do speak right now. On 'search' DPS shows different fragments with various contexts, thus user gets a full picture on how to use phrase in question.

@henadzit hey! Recently my friend sent me a link to dopeoplesay.com and now it's my favorite tool. It's extremely useful for non-native speakers.

Sometimes, you have the word in mind but could not figure out the better way of delivering its usage. One would end up Googling for phrases hoping for the best lines to appear. Often, you have to pay the page a visit for better understanding as the exact words do not appear on the list. And sometimes, they aren't just the ones you're looking for. This, so far, provides you the lines, in a snap :)

Pros:

Simple and fast

Cons:

Perhaps, some room for improvement still not clinging up to my thoughts. Thus, none, so far

Such a good idea! When I studied French at uni I used to Google search phrases as well, but it rarely returned anything helpful. I think Reddit is actually a pretty good source of language, as it's more likely to have the kind of informal speech that wouldn't be in textbooks and that you may not learn if you're only studying at school/uni. Two ideas: 1. try it for different languages and 2. would be cool if there were some way of working out the 'formality' (or otherwise) of a phrase. I realise that this could depend on the context though. For example 'get off' returns results for two different uses of the phrase.. https://dopeoplesay.com/q/get-off

@henadzit could you tell us all sources in which search is performed? Could you share any plans?

And anyway a good start, and the project is already helpful. Hope to see it will grow and become more powerful.

Pros:

Much better then Google for search by spoken word

Cons:

would like to have more smart search

DPS is so much better than just a random google search (yes, as a non-native English speaker I used to google perfect words combinations in phrases I wasn't sure about). The other thing that is painful for non natives is using proper prepositions. DPS helps me with that, too.

Pros:

Simplicity

Cons:

Haven't found any

I always use google translate. And sometimes i need to see how the word or phrase used in sentence. So i use google and social medya for usage of phrase.

Pros:

it self :)

Cons:

translating search term to other language will be very good for me. But this s not cons actually.

Would be nice to see existing alternatives aside with what I searched for, including usage statistics for both.

Pros:

Great mixture of "humanised approach" and technology. Much more helpful than google translate for spoken phrases search.

Cons:

Nothing negative, just some room for improvement and new features.

Better than google translate or google search. Works fast so it can be used any time.

Pros:

Woohoo, helps non-native (me) looks like a native :)

Cons:

Would be nice to see a url to actual source on reddit so I can check the context. Maybe it makes sense to add wikipedia as a source.

Use some time to make my English more native

Pros:

Very helpful service

Cons:

App version will be more comfortable

• Perhaps linking the result to that particular reddit page, so readers could follow through the conversation and know the context of the discussion

Pros:

• Simple (Please keep it simple as is)

• Address one of the most common pain points non-native speakers have.

Cons:

• Lack of context from the results suggested

Hey @henadzit, are planning to incorporate more formal (literature) datasets into the app?

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