Thought I would share a cool resource I’ve been using a bit the past few months. Journaly is a public journal writing platform that just moved into open beta. It has tons of languages, but I use it for Chinese (and maybe Japanese someday).
If you’re looking for a fun way to write some Chinese and maybe get some feedback from myself and others in the community, consider signing up. Added bonus, the creator is a Skritter user and has a killer YouTube channel.
Here’s the direct link: https://journaly.com/
Happy writing!
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Looks interesting, but could you maybe tell us a little bit more? What’s fun about it? How does it differ from writing elsewhere (obviously depends on what you’re comparing with, but still)? Is it specifically for language learners?
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Of course!
The platform is designed specifically for language learners, and the community is growing pretty quickly. The things I’m enjoying about it so far are:
- Ability to add topic tags to posts for easy filtering based on interests
- Ability to give and receive word/sentence level feedback within the journal entries
- Ability to give global feedback on journal entires
- Ability to to follow specific members to ensure that you’re able to read their stuff
- Notion style ability to easily upload custom images to your entries
- Ability to filter your feed by topic or a specific language (or languages if you’re learning more than one)
- Ability to edit posts after you’ve published them (and the fact that comments related to any changes are preserved and flagged outdated so they can be reference again by everyone
I see this becoming a very nice community in the future, and it is reminds me of lang-8 a bit, but with some more polish around the text formatting, and community elements.
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