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Build language practice around your recurring mistakes
Keep making similar mistakes when writing in another language? Turn your own texts into targeted exercises and clear explanations of recurring patterns.
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A prompt to try
Create language practice from my own texts. Target language and level: [LANGUAGE, LEVEL]. Intended use: [SITUATION]. Texts: [TEXTS]. Mark errors with the original passage, a correction and a brief rule. Distinguish grammatical errors from acceptable variants and purely stylistic suggestions. Choose the three recurring patterns that affect clarity most and show how often they appear in the material. For each pattern, develop a mini exercise and an open-ended application task. Do not show solutions yet. Wait for my answers and assess them only against the rules explained beforehand. Then create a new gap-fill text covering the same patterns without repeating earlier sentences. Summarize progress as an error profile with evidence from the texts and a next practice step. Do not infer an official proficiency level from this small test.
Copy the text into your AI, fill in the placeholders and check the answer.
What you need
- Your own access to a suitable AI. Only add information you are comfortable sharing.
How to start
- Copy the prompt and paste it into your AI.
- Replace the placeholders and add any missing information.
- Check the answer and ask follow-up questions to adapt it to your situation.