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Free Spanish Spell Check SoftwareGot Spell Check?
AbiWord is a free Spanish spell check word processing software that you can use right now. Doing a spell check is a great "final step" whenever you send an email in Spanish, or post in Spanish to an online forum or newsgroup.
Perhaps you write often in Spanish on your computer and need to do a Spell check on what you've written. But even if you don't, the practice of typing and then spell checking is a great tool for learning Spanish. It's a good test of your Spanish proficiency to write a letter or other correspondence on the computer and then give it a spell check. When I was learning Spanish, one of the items I didn't give much attention to were the accent marks above the letters of certain words -- like the í in aquí. This was always a weak point and basically meant I was a bad speller in Spanish. But when I began typing Spanish letters, emails, and articles into the computer and then doing a spell check -- I quickly learned to pay attention to the accents and write the words correctly. AbiWord is Professional Quality Software similar to all popular word processing programs that you can download and install on your computer and do spell checking of your Spanish documents. There is a version available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Also while you're there, be sure to download the Spanish dictionary file. (and any other languages you might be interested in). The Spanish word dictionary file is called AbiWord_Dictionary_Espanol.exe -- When you have both files on your computer you simply run the dictionary exe file to install the Spanish spell check on AbiWord. Using The Spanish Spell CheckerYou can of course type directly in to the AbiWord word processing or you can paste text in from other programs (such as email) that need to have the text spell checked.
The way to set the language of the document you want to spell check is in to Tools menu. In the Tools menu, click on "Set Language" and then select Spanish from the list of options. Any languages for which you have installed a dictionary file will have a check mark and the letters ABC next to it. Just select your language and the document you have open will get spell checked in Spanish. Installing the single AbiWord_Dictionary_Espanol.exe file mentioned above supplies two options in this language selection dialog: Spanish(Mexico) and Spanish(Spain). Simply choose the one that's most appropriate for your audience. There's also a check box to make the selected language the default for the current document.
AbiWord has the familiar feature that puts a wavy red line under words that need to have corrections made to them. When you see a misspelled word with the wavy red line under it you simply right-click on the word and select from the list of optional replacement words. Familiar, easy and simple to use -- get your copy today. |
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