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Do you use Lang-8 regularly? | ||
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| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6128 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 9 of 30 08 December 2012 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Now that the JLPT is past, I'd like to get back on lang-8. I have done quite a bit of lang-8 in Finnish and Japanese. In Finnish really struggling with each sentence using a dictionary. Sometimes I was understood, but often it was just incomprehensible. For Japanese the site is amazing and they correct within minutes -- the Finnish got corrected mostly, eventually, but it sometimes took a few days.
One thing about Finnish is that when I tried writing I found all these things I wanted to say, but really I had zero clue how to, that I couldn't always puzzle this out from dictionaries and textbooks. Sometimes really simple stuff like 'I put on my pants' type things. I don't think I ever developed natural sounding writing in either language. I had a stiffness that I never quite was able to get rid of. It was exhausting and eventually I started repeating myself and ran out of things to say. Maybe now that I've been away for a bit, my brain is filled with more random things to ramble about. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6600 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 10 of 30 08 December 2012 at 10:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I used to get corrections from a Finnish friend and it was very useful. But then she had no time for that, and I improved a lot by simply reading. Even one single book - LOTR - was immensely useful, and then I just kept reading and improving:)
I have an account but I can't be bothered to post much. Most small things can simply be googled, most "big things" (syntax, idiomatics) require reading... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sterogyl Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4370 days ago 152 posts - 263 votes Studies: German*, French, EnglishC2 Studies: Japanese, Norwegian | Message 11 of 30 11 December 2012 at 8:39am | IP Logged | ||
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I think that Lang-8 itself is a wonderful idea and can be tremendously helpful. But I don't use it anymore (I hardly did... I have 5 entries or so). The problem is that a) I usually have not the faintest idea what to write, and b) when I wrote something, I would translate newspaper articles or small passages from books, with the result that about the half of my entries remained uncorrected. I'm not good at writing about myself or at keeping my own diary or something like that.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6473 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 12 of 30 11 December 2012 at 10:25am | IP Logged | ||
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If you don't know what to write about, pick a random topic from this huge list:
http://temp.learnlangs.com/resources/topics Topic for today: what is your favourite object? 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sterogyl Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4370 days ago 152 posts - 263 votes Studies: German*, French, EnglishC2 Studies: Japanese, Norwegian | Message 13 of 30 11 December 2012 at 10:58am | IP Logged | ||
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Wow, that's quite a list! :-)
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5169 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 14 of 30 11 December 2012 at 8:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've used in in the previous months for French and Norwegian. It works pretty well for French, I even friended people who will help me whenever is necessary. OTOH, people started correcting my style and register, which is not a bad thing but can be annoying at times when you just want to get subjunctive right.
As for Norwegian, my last post is awaiting for correction for over a month. So, I basically plan to limit lang-8 to very common, overlearned languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5133 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 15 of 30 11 December 2012 at 8:18pm | IP Logged | ||
That's unfortunate. Back when I was using lang-8 for Norwegian, I'd get corrections usually within an hour of posting my text. The corrections almost always came from the same two Norwegians and the were always very helpful. A shame if they've moved on. They made my lang-8 experience really enjoyable. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Rout Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5715 days ago 326 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish Studies: Hindi | Message 16 of 30 13 December 2012 at 6:40am | IP Logged | ||
Wow, thanks Judith. Believe it or not, if you write on one subject a day, you'll finish this list in about 10 months. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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