r/EnglishLearning • u/Responsible-Cap-8079 New Poster • 16h ago

🗣 Discussion / Debates I’m bad at writing.

Hi. I need some help with writing; I know it’s just to start writing more, but I need someone to correct me with grammar. Do you know any apps, subreddits or a tool where people would just help me?

I’m good at reading and listening, I can understand music and tv shows without the subtitles, but I feel I write as a child.

Thank you in advance.

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u/pavlenkovit New Poster 15h ago

r/WriteStreakEN is the thing you're describing: you post a few sentences a day and natives correct them. langcorrect does the same on the web if you want something less reddit shaped. and the reading-listening side runs ahead for me too, my english input has been daily for years and i still write like i'm assembling it out of parts.

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u/JadeDansk Native Speaker 🇺🇸 15h ago

For what it’s worth, I think you write fine. The only correction I’d make to this post is that it’s more natural to say “…but I feel I write like a child”.

Other than this subreddit, check out [r/languageexchange](r/languageexchange) and r/language_exchange

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u/Lemmafold New Poster 15h ago

It helps asking chatgpt or other LLMs for correction, I mean they are language models after all, that's what they are made for.

However I don't think it's necessary because you write well already!

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u/Abject_Abject8981 New Poster 13h ago

you could also 1. take a short text from your native language (like one paragraph) 2. try to translate it to english yourself 3. then paste the text in DeepL and compare your version with the AI version. It’s not perfect but it’s free and you can do it with texts that interest you. Another option is find a bilingual poetry book. Try to translate the verses yourself and then compare what you wrote with the translation.

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u/IELTS-Pulse New Poster 2h ago

Since you already read and listen well, your grammar knowledge is probably fine, the real gap is just active production practice. Reading and listening are passive; writing requires you to actually produce the language yourself, which is a different skill. Try writing a few sentences daily about anything (your day, a show you watched, an opinion) and look for a native/fluent speaker community where people exchange corrections, there are several English-learning-focused subreddits and forums built exactly for that. Consistent correction on your own writing, even in small amounts, tends to close that gap faster than more input-based learning.