Comments on: Using Lang-8 to improve your Chinese

By: 人

Wed, 07 May 2025 08:44:19 +0000

With the advent of LLM chatbots, I think they are probably the best replacement to such tools. You can get instant feedback, and since they are, well, language models, the corrections they provide will be correct given you provide them the right context.

By: Training your Chinese teacher, part 4: Writing ability | Hacking Chinese | Hacking Chinese

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 16:39:23 +0000

[…] Writing practice is also more practical and often cheaper. Since you don’t need to meet the person who gives you feedback, scheduling is not a problem, and the person can be located anywhere, including where prices are lower. There are also many services that provide free feedback in exchange for your help correcting people learning your native language (such as Lang-8). […]

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 06:08:02 +0000

In reply to Andrew. I think they have merged/changed to HiNative, which does something quite similar. You can still access it, though, but it could be that you need to have an account already. I just logged in and the site looks much like it used to, and there's also activity there, so the site is still there! Writing a better post about where to get feedback online is on my to-do list, though, it's just that it's a bit daunting as it will take dozens of hours to research.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 20:08:31 +0000

Sadly, Lang-8 seems to be no more.

By: JNobbi

JNobbi — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 10:02:13 +0000

In reply to Stephen. HiNative is not so good for long texts, because it is more focused on short texts and answering questions and don't have an interface which marks errors as red. HelloTalk offers a similiar correction interface as lang-8.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 16 Mar 2019 18:49:22 +0000

As already noted, it’s no longer possible to register a user account on Lang-8. Instead new users are directed to a new service called HiNative which has been created by the same people. Does anyone here have any experience of the new service they could share? Many thanks.

By: JNobbi

JNobbi — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 07:18:30 +0000

lang-8 does has not accepted any new users since March 2017.

By: Dimitris Polychronopoulos

Dimitris Polychronopoulos — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 20:02:36 +0000

In reply to Chris. I really miss LiveMocha. Unfortunately Rosetta Stone bought it and closed it down. I was really active on it. With Lang-8 you don’t get as many languages in your account and you don’t help out in different languages the way you could on LiveMocha.

By: Luca

Luca — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 15:45:18 +0000

In reply to Olle Linge.

I’ve just submit a new entry in Chinese and I forgot tags .. in less than 10 minutes I got 5 corrections!
I know that Lang-8 was born in the East yet I thought English speakers still were in majority! 🙂

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:23:24 +0000

In reply to Luca. I suppose it's a question of supply and demand. I have never tried Lang-8 for anything other than Chinese (I correct Swedish in return)!