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| rmel Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4028 days ago 20 posts - 24 votes Studies: French, Russian | Message 1 of 10 23 February 2015 at 11:38am | IP Logged |
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I am learning French and Russian and want to improve my writing. I've found a Russian pen pal and I am hoping they put up with my appalling grammar. I am finding it harder however to find people to exchange French with, I think this is due to that fact that individuals who are French have a better grounding in English. Could anyone advice me on sites where I can post pieces of writing (I am more interested in French at the moment as I have a Russian pen pal) and receive feedback. I am asking on the forum as I would like to find out which sites people have found give the best support.
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| Arthaey Groupie United States arthaey.com Joined 4833 days ago 97 posts - 155 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 10 23 February 2015 at 4:28pm | IP Logged |
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I've had good luck with English/Spanish on ConversationExchange.com.
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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4231 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 3 of 10 23 February 2015 at 5:33pm | IP Logged |
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You can probably setup something similar to spell-check and grammar-check in MS-Word in other languages.
So far nobody has been able to come up with a spell-check for Chinese because they write in continuous sentences with no breaks between words. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Glarus Girl Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4362 days ago 50 posts - 108 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swiss-German | Message 4 of 10 23 February 2015 at 7:30pm | IP Logged |
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You could try Lang 8 and italki.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4796 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 5 of 10 23 February 2015 at 11:37pm | IP Logged |
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I'm seconding Glarus Girl's recommendation, I've always got good quality corrections on
italki and I heard lang8 is fine as well. I recommend trying to look for forums in French and Russian, for example ones dedicated to you hobbies or fandom or whatever else. You might as well try writing communities, such as fan fiction, you might get lots of corrections especially on style. This kind of corrections helped me immensely in past. And, until you find such opportunities, I recommend reading your own writing a day or two after having it finished. You might find most mistakes on your own, at least the mistakes concerning things you've already learnt but need to practice further. It worked for me, I wish I had kept to the exercise. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4452 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 6 of 10 24 February 2015 at 2:52pm | IP Logged |
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Lang8 is indeed a good resource, although with more popular languages like French you can sometimes run into the opposite problem, i.e. "too many" people willing to correct your writing, which often leaves with you very different and sometimes even contradictory sets of corrections. In that case a dedicated tutor could come in handy.
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| rmel Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4028 days ago 20 posts - 24 votes Studies: French, Russian | Message 7 of 10 17 May 2015 at 10:08am | IP Logged |
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Thank you for your suggestions will take a look at them
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| guiguixx1 Octoglot Senior Member Belgium guillaumelp.wordpres Joined 3879 days ago 163 posts - 207 votes Speaks: French*, English, Dutch, Portuguese, Esperanto, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Polish, Mandarin | Message 8 of 10 17 May 2015 at 10:13am | IP Logged |
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If you still want it, I am willing to help you with feedback, as long as you don't need
me to correct hundreds of pages :P 1 person has voted this message useful |
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