It seems I just can’t learn English articles. If I take some random online test I’ll do pretty well. These tests usually take form of isolated sentences and as such they are pretty naive, easily gamed. But how do I know if I use articles right when I’m writing, like now. My helpful brother checked some of my writings and pointed out the mistakes, after which I was like “Oh, sure, I knew that rule, how did I missed it?” Since he can’t check everything I write in English, I wondered how to learn those damn articles better.<\/p>\n
There is nothing that could automatically check my texts, but I found another way. What if I take already proofread text, remove all articles and then try to insert my own and compare it to the original. That could work. So I went coding. And this is the result: learn-english-articles<\/a><\/p>\n I implemented this scenario:<\/p>\n It took me some time to write the right algorithm to compare texts. It’s easy to just show the difference but I wanted more; I wanted to color code different errors (missing article, wrong article, surplus article) and calculate a score. I did it finally, so this is the first version: learn-english-articles<\/a><\/p>\n\n