diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b693d91..4155d63 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,40 +1,46 @@
 ![origin_github_banner](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/673455/37314301-f8db9a90-2618-11e8-8fee-b44f38febf38.png)
- 
+
 Head to https://www.originprotocol.com/developers to learn more about what we're building and how to get involved.
 
 # Telegram Bot
 
 - Deletes messages matching specified patterns
-- Bans users for posting messagses matching specified patterns
+- Bans users for posting messages matching specified patterns
 - Bans users with usernames matching specified patterns
-- Records logs of converstations
+- Records logs of conversations
+- Logs an English translation of any foreign languages using Google Translate
+- Uses textblob for basic sentiment analysis of both polarity and subjectivity
 
 ## Installation
 
- - Required: Python 3.x, pip, PostgreSQL
- - Create virtualenv
- - Clone this repo
- - `pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt`
+- Required: Python 3.x, pip, PostgreSQL
+- Create virtualenv
+- Clone this repo
+- `pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt`
 
 ## Database setup
- - Store database URL in environment variable.
- ```
- export TELEGRAM_BOT_POSTGRES_URL="postgresql://<user>:<password>@localhost:5432/<databasename>"
- ```
- - Run: `python model.py` to setup the DB tables.
+
+- Store database URL in environment variable.
+
+```
+export TELEGRAM_BOT_POSTGRES_URL="postgresql://<user>:<password>@localhost:5432/<databasename>"
+```
+
+- Run: `python model.py` to setup the DB tables.
 
 ## Setup
 
- - Create a Telegram bot by talking to `@BotFather` : https://core.telegram.org/bots#creating-a-new-bot
- - Use `/setprivacy` with `@BotFather` in order to allow it to see all messages in a group.
- - Store your Telegram Bot Token in environment variable `TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN`. It will look similar to this:
+- Create a Telegram bot by talking to `@BotFather` : https://core.telegram.org/bots#creating-a-new-bot
+- Use `/setprivacy` with `@BotFather` in order to allow it to see all messages in a group.
+- Store your Telegram Bot Token in environment variable `TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN`. It will look similar to this:
 
- ```
- export TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="4813829027:ADJFKAf0plousH2EZ2jBfxxRWFld3oK34ya"
- ```
- - Create your Telegram group.
- - Add your bot to the group like so: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37338101/how-to-add-a-bot-to-a-telegram-group
- - Make your bot an admin in the group
+```
+export TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN="4813829027:ADJFKAf0plousH2EZ2jBfxxRWFld3oK34ya"
+```
+
+- Create your Telegram group.
+- Add your bot to the group like so: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37338101/how-to-add-a-bot-to-a-telegram-group
+- Make your bot an admin in the group
 
 ## Configuration with ENV vars
 
@@ -44,11 +50,28 @@ Head to https://www.originprotocol.com/developers to learn more about what we're
 - `CHAT_IDS` : **REQUIRED**. Comma-seperated list of IDs of chat(s) that should be monitored. To find out the ID of a chat, add the bot to a chat and type some messages there. The bot log will report an error that it got messages `from chat_id not being monitored: XXX` where XXX is the chat ID. e.g. `-240532994,-150531679`
 - `TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN` : **REQUIRED**. Token for bot to control. e.g. `4813829027:ADJFKAf0plousH2EZ2jBfxxRWFld3oK34ya`
 - `TELEGRAM_BOT_POSTGRES_URL` : **REQUIRED**. URI for postgres instance to log activity to. e.g. `postgresql://localhost/postgres`
-- `DEBUG` : If set to anything except `false`, will put bot into debug mode. This means that all actions will be logged into the chat itself, and more things will be logged. 
-- `ADMIN_EXEMPT` : If set to anything except `false`, admin users will be exempt from monitoring. Reccomended to be set, but useful to turn off for debugging. 
+- `DEBUG` : If set to anything except `false`, will put bot into debug mode. This means that all actions will be logged into the chat itself, and more things will be logged.
+- `ADMIN_EXEMPT` : If set to anything except `false`, admin users will be exempt from monitoring. Reccomended to be set, but useful to turn off for debugging.
 - `NOTIFY_CHAT` : ID of chat to report actions. Can be useful if you have an admin-only chat where you want to monitor the bot's activity. E.g. `-140532994`
 
+## Download the corpus for Textblob
+
+For sentiment analysis to work, you'll need to download the latest corpus file for textblob. You can do this by running:
+
+```
+python -m textblob.download_corpora
+```
+
+If you're running the bot on Heroku, set an environment variable named `NLTK_DATA` to `/app/nltk_data` by running:
+
+```
+heroku config:set NLTK_DATA='/app/nltk_data'
+```
+
+## Message ban patterns
+
 Sample bash file to set `MESSAGE_BAN_PATTERNS`:
+
 ```
 read -r -d '' MESSAGE_BAN_PATTERNS << 'EOF'
 # ETH Address
@@ -60,15 +83,17 @@ read -r -d '' MESSAGE_BAN_PATTERNS << 'EOF'
 EOF
 ```
 
-## Attachements
+## Attachments
 
-By default, any attachments other than images or animations will cause the message to be hidden. 
+By default, any attachments other than images or animations will cause the message to be hidden.
 
 ## Running
 
 ### Locally
- - Run: `python bot.py` to start logger
- - Messages will be displayed on `stdout` as they are logged.
+
+- Run: `python bot.py` to start logger
+- Messages will be displayed on `stdout` as they are logged.
 
 ### On Heroku
- - You must enable the worker on Heroku app dashboard. (By default it is off.)
+
+- You must enable the worker on Heroku app dashboard. (By default it is off.)
diff --git a/bin/install_textblob_corpora b/bin/install_textblob_corpora
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..47e2819
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/install_textblob_corpora
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+source $BIN_DIR/utils
+
+echo "-----> Starting corpora installation"
+
+# Assumes NLTK_DATA environment variable is already set
+# $ heroku config:set NLTK_DATA='/app/nltk_data'
+
+# Install the default corpora to NLTK_DATA directory
+python -m textblob.download_corpora
+
+# Open the NLTK_DATA directory
+cd ${NLTK_DATA}
+
+# Delete all of the zip files in the NLTK DATA directory
+find . -name "*.zip" -type f -delete
+
+echo "-----> Finished corpora installatio"
diff --git a/bin/post_compile b/bin/post_compile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6078c43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/post_compile
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+if [ -f bin/install_textblob_corpora ]; then
+    echo "-----> Running install_textblob_corpora"
+    chmod +x bin/install_textblob_corpora
+    bin/install_textblob_corpora
+fi
+
+echo "-----> Post-compile done"
diff --git a/bot.py b/bot.py
index ad1f3af..d5a6e1d 100644
--- a/bot.py
+++ b/bot.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import re
 import unidecode
 from mwt import MWT
 from googletrans import Translator
+from textblob import TextBlob
 
 class TelegramMonitorBot:
 
@@ -26,12 +27,12 @@ class TelegramMonitorBot:
     def __init__(self):
         self.debug = (
             (os.environ.get('DEBUG') is not None) and
-            (os.environ.get('DEBUG').upper() != "false"))
+            (os.environ.get('DEBUG').lower() != "false"))
 
         # Are admins exempt from having messages checked?
         self.admin_exempt = (
             (os.environ.get('ADMIN_EXEMPT') is not None) and
-            (os.environ.get('ADMIN_EXEMPT').upper() != "false"))
+            (os.environ.get('ADMIN_EXEMPT').lower() != "false"))
 
         if (self.debug):
             print("🔵 debug:", self.debug)
@@ -304,20 +305,26 @@ class TelegramMonitorBot:
 
         return bool_set
 
-
     def log_message(self, user_id, user_message, chat_id):
         try:
             s = session()
             language_code = english_message = ""
+            polarity = subjectivity = 0.0
             try:
+                # translate to English & log the original language
                 translator = Translator()
                 translated = translator.translate(user_message)
                 language_code = translated.src
                 english_message = translated.text
+                # run basic sentiment analysis on the translated English string
+                analysis = TextBlob(english_message)
+                polarity = analysis.sentiment.polarity
+                subjectivity = analysis.sentiment.subjectivity
             except Exception as e:
                 print(e.message)
-            msg1 = Message(user_id=user_id, message=user_message,
-                           chat_id=chat_id, language_code=language_code, english_message=english_message)
+            msg1 = Message(user_id=user_id, message=user_message, chat_id=chat_id, 
+                language_code=language_code, english_message=english_message, polarity=polarity,
+                subjectivity=subjectivity)
             s.add(msg1)
             s.commit()
             s.close()
diff --git a/model.py b/model.py
index 98a96d5..35d62cf 100644
--- a/model.py
+++ b/model.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from sqlalchemy import Column, DateTime, BigInteger, String, Integer, ForeignKey, func
+from sqlalchemy import Column, DateTime, BigInteger, String, Integer, Numeric, ForeignKey, func
 from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship, backref
 from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
 import os
@@ -30,9 +30,10 @@ class Message(Base):
     language_code = Column(String)
     english_message = Column(String)
     chat_id = Column(BigInteger)
+    polarity = Column(Numeric)
+    subjectivity = Column(Numeric)
     time = Column(DateTime, default=func.now())
 
-
 class MessageHide(Base):
     __tablename__ = 'telegram_message_hides'
     id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f5a5e0e..f75b495 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@ SQLAlchemy==1.2.2
 configparser==3.5.0
 Unidecode==1.0.22
 googletrans==2.4.0
+textblob==0.15.3
+ipython==5.5.0
+