I recently started to actually add journal entries to lang-8 but I have been with lang-8 for ages. To post that first journal entry does take some courage but as soon as you do and see all the friendly and helpful Japanese people correcting you, you will quickly get over the fear. I've been at it for 2 weeks now and made a Japanese friend that I often talk to on Skype. Best thing that's happened to my learning in a long time!
Never be scared about making mistakes, I have been accidentally rude or said some very wrong words (most recently 愛人 instead of 恋人) many times but they either laugh it off or give you an amazing correction, both as good as each other.
Check out my profile http://lang-8.com/39119 if you want a confidence booster, my grammar and sentence structure is very lack luster but I have come along leaps and bounds solely due to lang-8. Good luck
*edit just noticed how old the original post was, oh well
Never be scared about making mistakes, I have been accidentally rude or said some very wrong words (most recently 愛人 instead of 恋人) many times but they either laugh it off or give you an amazing correction, both as good as each other.
Check out my profile http://lang-8.com/39119 if you want a confidence booster, my grammar and sentence structure is very lack luster but I have come along leaps and bounds solely due to lang-8. Good luck
*edit just noticed how old the original post was, oh well
Edited: 2013-04-05, 11:27 am