Fix English mistakes in some Markdown documents (#20274)

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6c5952894..09ee1291b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -45,21 +45,21 @@
 </p>
 
 <p align="center">
-  <a href="README_ZH.md">View the chinese version of this document</a>
+  <a href="README_ZH.md">View this document in Chinese</a>
 </p>
 
 ## Purpose
 
 The goal of this project is to make the easiest, fastest, and most
 painless way of setting up a self-hosted Git service.
-Using Go, this can be done with an independent binary distribution across
-**all platforms** which Go supports, including Linux, macOS, and Windows
-on x86, amd64, ARM and PowerPC architectures.
-Want to try it before doing anything else?
-Do it [with the online demo](https://try.gitea.io/)!
+
+As Gitea is written in Go, it works across **all** the platforms and
+architectures that are supported by Go, including Linux, macOS, and
+Windows on x86, amd64, ARM and PowerPC architectures.
+You can try it out using [the online demo](https://try.gitea.io/).
 This project has been
 [forked](https://blog.gitea.io/2016/12/welcome-to-gitea/) from
-[Gogs](https://gogs.io) since 2016.11 but changed a lot.
+[Gogs](https://gogs.io) since November of 2016, but a lot has changed.
 
 ## Building
 
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ For more information and instructions about how to install Gitea, please look at
 If you have questions that are not covered by the documentation, you can get in contact with us on our [Discord server](https://discord.gg/Gitea) or create  a post in the [discourse forum](https://discourse.gitea.io/).
 
 We maintain a list of Gitea-related projects at [gitea/awesome-gitea](https://gitea.com/gitea/awesome-gitea).  
-The hugo-based documentation theme is hosted at [gitea/theme](https://gitea.com/gitea/theme).  
+The Hugo-based documentation theme is hosted at [gitea/theme](https://gitea.com/gitea/theme).  
 The official Gitea CLI is developed at [gitea/tea](https://gitea.com/gitea/tea).
 
 ## Authors