Has it ever happened to you that you change the language of vim’s spellchecker
(:set spelllang=de), but when asked if vim should install the spell files you
accidentally hit no? You can easily install the files yourself. Let’s assume
you want to install German spell files. Execute
$ export LANG=de
$ curl -o ~/.vim/spell/$LANG.utf-8.spl http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/spell/$LANG.utf-8.spl
Done.