# Write in Your Language

> Choose the language you write in, so spellcheck uses the right dictionary and AI writes, edits and suggests in your language and spelling.

[Try it in Plot](https://app.inkwell.software/projects)

Inkwell keeps two languages apart: the language the app's menus are in, and the language you write in. They can differ. You can read the app in Spanish and write an English script, or read it in English and write in Japanese.

The writing language can be American, British, Australian or Canadian English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese or Korean.

1. **Choose your writing language**

   In Plot, open **Document settings** from its button on the editor's left rail or the command palette, and choose **Your default language** under **While you write** on the **Your view** tab. The choice is saved to your account, so it follows you to every script, browser and device.

   **Automatic** is the default. It uses the app's language, and your browser's region for that language: with the app in English and your browser set to English (United Kingdom), Automatic is British English. The option names the language it has chosen.

   The strip under the list shows a few words spelled the chosen way, so you can see the difference before you write.

   ![Your default language (1) on the Your view tab of Document settings, with a few words spelled the chosen way and what follows the choice.](https://www.inkwell.software/help/document-settings-writing-language.light.webp)

   _Your default language (1) on the Your view tab of Document settings, with a few words spelled the chosen way and what follows the choice._

2. **Give one script its own language**

   In Plot, open **Document settings** from its button on the editor's left rail or the command palette, and choose **Script language** on the **Script** tab. A script with its own language uses it whatever each writer's default is, and everyone working on the project shares it. **Your default** follows each writer's own writing language.

   ![Script language (1) on the Script tab of Document settings, shared by everyone working on the project.](https://www.inkwell.software/help/document-settings-script-language.light.webp)

   _Script language (1) on the Script tab of Document settings, shared by everyone working on the project._

3. **What follows the writing language**

   **Spellcheck** checks the page against the writing language's dictionary. The browser supplies the dictionary, so install that language in your browser or operating system if words are not underlined. To reach the browser's spelling suggestions from the editor, hold **Shift** while right-clicking.

   **AI writing** follows it too. Ghost text, inline edits (`⌘K` / `Ctrl+K`), Agent edits, scenes proposed in AI chat and skill rewrites are written in the writing language and its spelling and punctuation: British spelling in British English, „…“ quotation marks in German, « … » in French, 「」 in Japanese. Character names, deliberate dialect and lines you wrote in another language stay as you wrote them.

   With **Automatic**, AI writes in the language and spelling already on the page.

4. **The language AI talks to you in**

   AI chat, Agent summaries and skill findings are in your app language, set under **Profile → Language**. If you write to AI in another language, it answers in that one. Your writing language refines the reply: with the app in English and British English as your writing language, replies use British spelling too.

> **Note: Nothing on the page changes**
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> Changing a writing language never rewrites text already on the page. It changes the dictionary and what AI writes from then on.

## What next

- [Change How Plot Looks & Behaves](https://www.inkwell.software/help/account/settings-overview): Open Settings from anywhere and set the theme and palette, motion and transparency, which emails you get, and your profile, and find the page's own settings in Document settings.
- [Dictionary & Thesaurus](https://www.inkwell.software/help/writing/dictionary-and-thesaurus): Look up the word under your cursor without leaving the page — meaning, synonyms, opposites, related words, and rhymes — and swap a synonym straight in.
- [Chat with the Dramaturg](https://www.inkwell.software/help/ai/chat-with-the-dramaturg): Ask questions of an assistant that has read your whole script, tell it what to change, point it at a scene or a character with @, and run the skills it suggests. On a Plot screenplay it can look up who speaks and where.

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Canonical page: <https://www.inkwell.software/help/writing/writing-language>