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I type about equally in both my native language and English. Spellchecking is less important when using my native language but it would still be nice to have it - or at least to deactivate English spellchecking.

Is there an system wide plugin or at least any browser specific extension that would be smart enough to figure out in which language I'm typing and automatically switch to the according dictionary?

I'm using Google Chrome on OS X Snow Leopard.

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You could look into something that allows you to spellcheck both languages at once. You will miss a few terms depending on the similarities between the languages, but it's IMO much more likely you'll find something like that. Apple Pages implements something similar: its "all supported languages" spell-checker. – Daniel Beck Dec 27 '11 at 21:39
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The only app I know of that handles multilingual spell-checking is Microsoft Word. It is able to switch automatically between languages by paragraph. I don't know about Office for Mac. You might want to use it for writing and then copy the text where you need it.

This blog handles multilingual issues on Mac: http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2011/06/extra-spell-checking-dictionaries-for.html - You might find something of interest there. Look in the comments - one guy seems to have the same problem you have.

I found this website that claims to offer web-based spell checking - aptly named Spell Checker. The site seems to be abandoned because there is advertisement on it and no pricing information. And the most recent version are quite dated, too: Windows 2003 is listed as the latest OS.

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