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AI prompts to improve your English

Learning English needs practice and correction, and many learners have nobody to practise with. An AI assistant can correct your sentences, explain the rule and keep up a conversation for as long as you like, without making you feel embarrassed. It suits everyday English well. For a specific examination, use that examination's own material too.

The prompts

Correct me and explain

I am learning English. My first language is [LANGUAGE]. Correct the sentences below. For each mistake, show the corrected sentence and explain the rule in one simple line. If a sentence is correct but sounds unnatural, give a more natural version.

[PASTE YOUR SENTENCES]

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Conversation practice

Have a conversation with me in simple English about [TOPIC, FOR EXAMPLE MY DAY, SHOPPING, A JOB INTERVIEW]. Ask one question at a time. After each of my replies, first correct my mistakes in one or two lines, then continue the conversation. Use easy words. My level is [BEGINNER / MIDDLE].

Replace the parts in [CAPITALS] first, or after pasting.

Words for a situation

Give me twenty useful English words and phrases for [SITUATION, FOR EXAMPLE TALKING TO A BANK OFFICER OR ATTENDING AN OFFICE MEETING]. For each, give the meaning in simple English and in [LANGUAGE], and one example sentence. Choose words people really use, not rare ones.

Replace the parts in [CAPITALS] first, or after pasting.

Say it more naturally

I want to say this in English: [WRITE IT IN YOUR OWN ENGLISH OR IN YOUR LANGUAGE]

Give me three ways to say it: formal, everyday polite, and casual between friends. Tell me which one suits [WHO YOU ARE SPEAKING TO].

Replace the parts in [CAPITALS] first, or after pasting.

Explain the difference

Explain the difference between "[FIRST WORD OR PHRASE]" and "[SECOND WORD OR PHRASE]" in simple English. Give three example sentences for each, then five fill-in-the-blank questions to test me. Wait for my answers before correcting.

Replace the parts in [CAPITALS] first, or after pasting.

Speaking topic practice

Give me a topic to speak on for two minutes at [LEVEL] level. Then give me five useful phrases for it and three points I could make. After I type what I would say, correct it, and suggest better words for the weakest sentences.

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How to adapt these prompts

Tell it your first language. Speakers of Hindi or Punjabi tend to make particular mistakes in English, with articles, tenses and prepositions, and the corrections can focus on those.
Set your level. "Use only simple words and short sentences" prevents explanations harder than the mistake.
Ask for explanations in your language when a rule is hard: "Explain the rule in Hindi, examples in English".
Choose Indian or British spellings if your school or office expects them.
Use your real life. Practise the conversation you actually need next week: the parent meeting, the call to a customer, the interview.
Keep a list. At the end of a session ask: "List the mistakes I made most today".

Getting the most from it

Write or speak first, and get corrected afterwards. If you only read correct English that the assistant writes, you learn far less than when it fixes your own attempt.

Its corrections are usually sound for common grammar, but it can be wrong, and it sometimes "corrects" perfectly good Indian English usage or changes your meaning. If a correction surprises you, ask it to explain, or check a learner's dictionary or grammar book.

For pronunciation, typed chat cannot help much. Listen to real speech, such as radio, news and films, and record yourself.

If you are preparing for an English test, take the format, scoring and sample papers from the organisation that runs it. An assistant's memory of test rules is not reliable.

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This is an independent site. It is not connected with any company that makes AI assistants. The prompts are plain text and can be used in any AI chat assistant. An AI assistant can give wrong or made-up answers: check anything important before you rely on it, and do not paste private details into a prompt.