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I'm not a native speaker but work in an English-speaking international environment. One American guy wrote me:

I'll be sure to let you know

We at our company usually say:

I'll for sure let you know

Are both ways correct and are there any semantic distinctions between them? If both are acceptable, which expression is more common in America?

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    Interposing a multi-word adverbial phrase in between the two components of a compound verb form like I will let you know isn't particularly idiomatic for native speakers, so I assume your company isn't primarily Anglophonic. But it's fine with single-word adverbs, as in I'll definitely let you know.
    – FumbleFingers
    Commented Jun 1, 2015 at 15:25
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    @FumbleFingers I will be sure to let you know sounds like the Queen's English to me - perfectly idiomatic in formal register. I'll for sure let you know does sound American. It would be unusual to hear it said that way by someone born and bred in the UK.
    – WS2
    Commented Jun 1, 2015 at 16:31
  • @WS2: It's not easy to use online resources to home in on spoken usages, but my feeling is native speaker Americans also tend to avoid splitting compound verbs with multi-word adverbs. To me, OP's cited usage sounds more like "non-native speaker" than "typical American".
    – FumbleFingers
    Commented Jun 1, 2015 at 16:39

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Both are perfectly good American English. The "for sure" version is slightly more informal. That qualifier "for sure" reminds some of us of the popular 1983 film Valley Girl and valspeak. "Valspeak is a common name for an American sociolect, originally of Southern Californians, in particular valley girls." (see Language Dossier).

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    I'd go so far as to say that the "for sure" (typically pronounced fer sher) version is way more informal.
    – Jim
    Commented Jun 1, 2015 at 16:23
  • In doing research for this answer, I ran across the following interview with Frank Zappa in which Moon Unit does her depiction of valspeak. She's good. youtube.com/watch?v=2TZk1gYj2xo
    – Greg Lee
    Commented Jun 1, 2015 at 16:46

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