Train Speaking and Writing in response to Video, News or Essay Topic

Based on data of 470 curated essay topics, 1000+ video items from dw.com, and 2000+ news articles from Spiegel.de + languagetool

This exercise attempts to simulate a real world scenario, where you do not have access to the grammar check. After you are done providing your answer, turn on the plugin to see if you made any grammatical mistakes.

You are prompted to process an input item - an essay topic, video or article in German. You need to summarize and discuss the item via a response. A response can be either a text or an audio spoken by you; A type of response modality is chosen at random. Note that for audio response, you need to enable microphone; Your speech will be translated to text as you speak, and after you are done recording yourself the whitespaces and capital letters will be fixed automatically, and the text can be checked by the grammar checker.

To perform this exercise, install free German grammar checker from languagetool.org. Before providing the answer, turn off the grammar checker. To load the next exercise item, click on the button below. You will need to click on 'Show ...' button to load the item; If you do not like the item for some reason, by clicking on the button again you can choose a different item. Provide your response, and turn on again the grammar checker to access your performance. See more in theory block.

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