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Handwritten Journals - crayonmaster - 2010-05-20
Lang-8 is great for practicing writing... but not handwriting. I was thinking of starting a handwritten journal. It seems like it would be great practice. Because of IME, I think I've become overconfident with kanji, and handwriting my own sentences would expose my weaknesses... but since I don't have a native to look it over, a lot of mistakes would go uncorrected (unless I re-wrote it onto Lang-8).
Anyone else doing this? Do you allow yourself to use a dictionary/grammar reference while writing, or do you just write freely and not worry about mistakes?
Handwritten Journals - brianobush - 2010-05-20
I don't keep a journal (at least in Japanese), but I do copy down song lyrics to keep my writing ability moving forward. Then I use papers those to sing along... I guess a journal would be more appropriate.
Handwritten Journals - TaylorSan - 2010-05-21
I plan in doing this very thing myself. I do use lang 8, but I think a hand written journal, with no help (off the top of the dome) will be good for putting my writing to practice, and as something to record my progression in the language. It would be fun to read through it many years down the road to see the progression, so it's ok if it's full of mistakes. Kind of like looking at my second grade hand written stories.
And use lang 8 to learn/improve composition. I do try to not use any resources there as well, but with the occasional dictionary reference, so I'm putting to use what I think I know - though my journal entries at current level are very limited and basic.
Handwritten Journals - Tzadeck - 2010-05-21
I've often written down things and also put them into lang-8, and afterwards added the corrections to the written version. That way you get writing practice, and you also pay more attention to the mistakes that you made. Hopefully that'll help you from making them in the future.
However, I couldn't imagine both writing down and writing on Lang-8 everything I wrote. Why not just add the more interesting ones to Lang-8? I only do it when I write essays for fun, usually based on silly topics I find funny like "The fights between Nobel Prize winning physicists Murray Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman while they worked at Caltech."