Lang-8 Social Networking Service
I got an e-mail from Jaered, who works at a website called lang-8 and thought readers of The English Blog might find it interesting. Here's the site description:
Lang-8 is a SNS (Social Networking Service) site for language exchange and international communication. In this site, you can write in the language you are studying, and other users (whose native language is the language you are studying) can correct your diary. And you can also correct the diaries of those who are studying your native language.
You are able to not only learn a language, but help teach others your own language as well. For example, if there is a Japanese person studying English and an American person studying Japanese, the American can correct the English entries of the Japanese, and the Japanese, in turn, can correct the Japanese-written entries of the American.
It helps to make teaching one's native language simpler and takes less time than traditional teaching methods. It is also very beneficial to be taught and corrected by a native speaker of the language you are studying. In this way, with lang-8, users can teach and learn a language as well as have international exchanges with each other.
