English Grammar Question

On a site or here?

Personally, I would outsource. I would never right my own content in Hungarian. I might write an outline, but I'd pass it on to someone else to actually write for me. Someone who understands all the nuances.

As you don't just have to get the grammar right, but you have to get the "feel" right. Hit the right note for your audience.

Oh, and I've noticed, don't apologize for your English!!! You're the one who's made the effort.

All native English speakers make grammatical errors.

Even within a city, the grammar changes depending on where in the city you are.

What you need to get is the rhythm of the region you are targeting.

I am told that the American Mid West accent is the dialect of English most easily understood throughout the English speaking world.

When you are writing, use your favorite actor from Hollywood as the voice inside your head.

Don't apologize for the problem, fix the problem. Though bad grammar is not a problem unless it stops the reader while reading your material.

Iv got to agree with Budabrit, I am English and if there is an obvious grammar mistake it jumps out at you, almost stopping you. I can say though, I have to proofread my articles several times as I sometimes put errors in there.
Instead of risking this you could either outsource, or a cheaper option would be to get your articles proof-read. something like 'http://www.proof-reading-service.com/' (Please note I have not used these services).

Also, are you looking for 'English' English or 'American' English? Depending on your market there are a few spelling variations etc.
Hope I have helped.

You need to think in terms of your reader. If they can't understand what you're sainy,g or the point you're trying to get across, or it makes the reading hard, apologising beforehand isn't going to help you.

Get someone to proof read the content, or outsource it.

I think it's good to have 'yourself' in the content you create, so long as it doesn't detract from what you're trying to achieve. Maybe ask friends to read the content and tell you if it is hard to understand. If they think it is hard to understand and they're your friends, you have your answer. If they don't think it is hard to understand then you may be okay.

The other thing you could do is ask your readers if they find it difficult to understand you, and specifically what was hard to understand. Call it a survey or something...

We all make grammatical errors, that is proven in this thread (most likely my post to). Honestly, I wouldn't even mention it, I actually think it will harm your business depending where you are from. If you command a good grip of the English langue and you get your words the correct way round, not many people will care about a hyphen etc... A common mistake I see with foreign people writing in English is when they mess the words up, for example: How do I traffic get, this should read, how do I get traffic... If your not confident in your skills then as others say, outsource it.

Just a passing thought to throw into the mix. In the rush to write in English, how many of you are missing out on your local market? Maybe people who speak your own language would appreciate an excellent site written in their own language and which they can easily understand?

Use a native writer and/or proofreader.

1. It's Marketing 101: your customer doesn't want to know about your problems, they want to know what you can do for them. Anything that stands between you and smoothly communicating what you can do for them, including language issues, is something that will adversely affect your bottom line.

2. As Robert Cialdini has shown, people like to deal with people who are more like them than less like them. If you are a foreigner (from the customer's point of view), then that's one thing that is UNlike and thus will decrease trust and the likelihood of cooperation (which in this case means making a sale).

3. No matter how good you get at a second language, you will never know all of the nuances, cultural references and so on perfectly. Why risk making a mistake that could cost you sales?

4. As someone pointed out above, you want to get the tone of the content just right. Again, virtually impossible for a non-native speaker to do.

Offline, I'm an English language professional with over 20 years' experience in the field, plus have a degree in linguistics. Believe me, I've thought about the various nuances of this issue quite a lot. Go with a native writer.

I do think, however, that using British English versus American English isn't that important, assuming that you get whichever one you choose right. If you're aiming for one market or the other, obviously, go with that market's dialect. But if not, probably either one is fine.

Yes; I think that will help quite a lot, and it's well worth doing.

Thank yousss Everybody
I have added the extra line... Lets see what's the outcome.

Most answers to this are just guesses or personal opinion.

General advice I have seen around the forum and elsewhere seems to be that if you are selling to a natural English speaking market then good English in your sales copy will always be best.

At the very least if you are apologizing for your poor English you are not focusing on or even detracting from, your sales pitch.

The only way to really know is to test. Create two sales letters/videos one you create yourself and one done by a natural English speaker/writer. A/B split test and see what happens.

Personally I don't speak any other language well enough to even attempt to write a blog comment, so I am always humbled by anyone who can speak a second language and make me understand them.