Michael Rumiantsau

Do People Say - Type in a phrase and see how native English speakers use it

A full-text search engine of English spoken corpus.

Find the context where English word or phrase is used or check if it is used by English speakers at all. Not sure if it's valid or not? Give it a try too!

Here're a few sample queries:

https://dopeoplesay.com/q/hold-back-from

https://dopeoplesay.com/q/keep-up-the-work

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Vic
Tried "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." It errors out saying "* Please, use English characters only." What...!!!
Henadzi Tsaryk
Hey @vicky_buddie, sorry for that! The validation failed due to the dot at the end of the sentence. I'll fix it. BTW, it does return some results if you query without a dot https://dopeoplesay.com/q/hell-h...
Dmitry Dudin
Woooow! this is very cool! Thanks
Henadzi Tsaryk
Thanks @nedudi!
Ivan Homchenko

Use some time to make my English more native

Pros:

Very helpful service

Cons:

App version will be more comfortable

Venetia Lipscombe
Such a good idea! When I studied French at uni I used to Google search phrases as well, but it rarely returned anything helpful. I think Reddit is actually a pretty good source of language, as it's more likely to have the kind of informal speech that wouldn't be in textbooks and that you may not learn if you're only studying at school/uni. Two ideas: 1. try it for different languages and 2. would be cool if there were some way of working out the 'formality' (or otherwise) of a phrase. I realise that this could depend on the context though. For example 'get off' returns results for two different uses of the phrase.. https://dopeoplesay.com/q/get-off
Henadzi Tsaryk
@venetiasarah Thanks, Venetia! That's really great idea. I'll try to figure out how I can label the matches. Thanks for the suggestion, very appreciated!
Tom Lui

• Perhaps linking the result to that particular reddit page, so readers could follow through the conversation and know the context of the discussion

Pros:

• Simple (Please keep it simple as is)

• Address one of the most common pain points non-native speakers have.

Cons:

• Lack of context from the results suggested