diff --git a/custom.el b/custom.el
index e24a173..36d6215 100644
--- a/custom.el
+++ b/custom.el
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
  '(package-selected-packages
    '(cape company consult corfu-terminal dracula-theme eat
 	  emacs-everywhere flycheck-languagetool hl-todo kind-icon
-	  magit marginalia multiple-cursors orderless paredit
-	  rainbow-mode vertico))
+	  languagetool magit marginalia multiple-cursors orderless
+	  paredit rainbow-mode vertico))
  '(safe-local-variable-directories '("/home/mia/.emacs.d/")))
 (custom-set-faces
  ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
diff --git a/init.el b/init.el
index 6fa569c..7c4feb3 100644
--- a/init.el
+++ b/init.el
@@ -223,6 +223,8 @@
 (add-hook 'after-init-hook 'rainbow-mode)
 
 
+;; TODO add fast rudimentary spell check 
+;; leaving this in for now, maybe i could add fast rudimentary spell checking and then use languagetool for slower more thorough spell checks
 ;; doesnt work yet?
 ;; it  should only do these when ispell is loaded
 ;; idk
@@ -237,8 +239,9 @@
      
   
 
-
-(use-package flycheck :ensure t :defer t :hook after-init)
+;; TODO do we need flycheck anymore?
+;; i don't think so?
+;; (use-package flycheck :ensure t :defer t :hook after-init)
 ;; (use-package flycheck-languagetool
 ;;   :ensure t
 ;;   :hook (text-mode . flycheck-languagetool-setup)
@@ -260,7 +263,7 @@
          ( "C->" . mc/mark-next-like-this)	   
          ( "C-<" . mc/mark-previous-like-this)   
          ( "C-c C-<" . mc/mark-all-like-this)	   
-         ( "C-\"" . mc/skip-to-next-like-this)	   
+         ( "C-^\"" . mc/skip-to-next-like-this)	   
          ( "C-:" . mc/skip-to-previous-like-this)
 	 )
   )
@@ -299,11 +302,50 @@
 					;              '(haskell-mode . ("haskell-language-server-wrapper" "--lsp")))
   )
 
-(with-eval-after-load 'eglot
-  (add-to-list 'eglot-server-programs
-               '(text-mode . ("harper-ls" "--stdio"))
-	       '(markdown-mode . ("harper-ls" "--stdio"))
-	       ))
+;; spell checking with languagetool, slow but thorough
+;; dowloaded:
+;; https://languagetool.org/download/ngram-data/ngrams-de-20150819.zip
+;; https://languagetool.org/download/ngram-data/ngrams-en-20150817.zip
+;; https://languagetool.org/download/LanguageTool-stable.zip
+;; and put them in a directory like this
+;; emacs-init-dir/.languagetool/contents of LanguageTool-stable.zip like languagetool-server
+;; emacs-init-dir/.languagetool/contents of ngram.* like de or en
+(use-package languagetool
+  :ensure t
+  :defer t
+  :commands (languagetool-check
+             languagetool-clear-suggestions
+             languagetool-correct-at-point
+             languagetool-correct-buffer
+             languagetool-set-language
+             languagetool-server-mode
+             languagetool-server-start
+             languagetool-server-stop)
+  :config (setq languagetool-java-arguments (list "-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" (concat "--languagemodel " (concat user-emacs-directory ".languagetool/ngram-data")))
+		languagetool-console-command (concat user-emacs-directory (concat ".languagetool/languagetool-commandline.jar"))
+		languagetool-console-arguments (list (concat user-emacs-directory "--languagemodel") " .languagetool/ngram-data")
+		languagetool-server-command (concat user-emacs-directory (concat ".languagetool/languagetool-server.jar"))
+		languagetool-server-arguments (list (concat user-emacs-directory "--languageModel") " .languagetool/ngram-data")
+		)
+  )
+
+;; TODO make languagetool languagte toggle function 
+;; defun my/languagetool-toggle-language
+;; switch between auto, en, de
+;; have it be auto or de by default and then switch either to en or to de
+;; like auto -> de
+;; or de -> en
+;; or maybe just like that
+;; first auto then de then en
+;; TODO evaluate how i wanna do this
+
+
+
+;; (with-eval-after-load 'eglot
+;;   (add-to-list 'eglot-server-programs
+;;                '(text-mode . ("harper-ls" "--stdio"))
+;; 	       '(markdown-mode . ("harper-ls" "--stdio"))
+;; 	       ))
 
 ;; flycheck told me to do this:
 (provide 'init)