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| Fixoodle Newbie United States fixoodle.com Joined 4608 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: Japanese | Message 1 of 4 16 April 2012 at 1:04am | IP Logged |
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Hi everyone,
Just to be upfront - I am the site owner for Fixoodle, and this is not a gleaming review ;-). A quick little intro about me, I'm a doctor (MD) and I've been studying Japanese since 1994 (including being a Blakemore-Freeman fellow in 2007-08 to study advanced/medical Japanese). I am fluent but I still enjoy practicing. I made Fixoodle because there was nothing out there that worked how I wanted. I want to introduce Fixoodle to you for 2 reasons: 1) we were just featured on wwwhatsnew.com, which is huge in Spanish speaking countries and now we have tons of Spanish speakers. So if you study Spanish and are looking for friends to practice with, now is your chance, and I'm hoping to appeal to some of you (we do have other languages, like Japanese, Persian, Italian, etc., but Spanish speakers are signing up in droves). And 2) I'm looking for opinions on how useful the site might be to you. Basically, it has 2 main functions, posting and translating. Posting is kind of similar to other sites -- you post something, people fix it. The real difference is that you don't have to do anything but add and delete text -- highlighting, crossing out, etc. are all done by Fixoodle, so as a native speaker, fixing someone's post becomes pretty painless. This works in languages with spaces like English as well as languages without like Chinese or Japanese. The social translation feature lets you post something in either your native language or a language you are learning and ask for a translation, with voting on the best one at the end. So check it out and let me know what you think: Fixoodle.com. Jay Edited by Fixoodle on 16 April 2012 at 1:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6661 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 2 of 4 16 April 2012 at 1:51am | IP Logged |
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How is this different from lang8?
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| camdo2 Newbie United States Joined 4677 days ago 26 posts - 32 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 4 16 April 2012 at 2:20am | IP Logged |
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Checked it out and signed up. Looks quite promising and sleek. I'll be happy to be a member there, helping out all of your Spanish speakers with English ;).
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| Fixoodle Newbie United States fixoodle.com Joined 4608 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: Japanese | Message 4 of 4 16 April 2012 at 2:59am | IP Logged |
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@Hampie - Lang does things sentence-by-sentence and Fixoodle is all-or-nothing, so with Fixoodle you always
know someone has corrected your whole post. Lang's correction formatting (strike-out, bolding, coloring, etc) is manually done by the other user, while Fixoodle does things automatically. Fixoodle has social translation. The interface is clean and not as busy. Fixoodle has a few things under the hood related to what order things are displayed to users for corrections so that it rewards members who are more reciprocal, not sure about Lang-8, although I think if you pay your posts display higher in the queue there. Neither are a place to go for basic learning - these are sites for practicing what you already know (although translating has some merit as far as learning goes, e.g. Duolingo). I'm sure there are other similarities/differences but these are the major ones that I'm aware of. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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