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Keep a journal that natives correct
Journaly is a free site where you post journal entries in Mandarin, native speakers correct them, and you correct their English.
Keep a journal that natives correct
Journaly is a free site where you post journal entries in Mandarin, native speakers correct them, and you correct their English.
Sign up on Journaly, set Mandarin as your learning language, and post a journal entry of about 150 characters: where you are with Chinese, what has got easier, what still trips you up. Type it with the Pinyin keyboard built into your computer or phone (Windows, macOS, iOS and Android all ship one), or write in pinyin and say so. Then pay it back: find an English entry by a Chinese speaker and correct it.
Your partner is a learner too, so mistakes are expected on both sides. Ten minutes of real conversation teaches more than an hour of worrying about it.
An example you can adapt
今年是我学中文的第二年。我发现自己能看懂的东西越来越多了，可是说话的时候还是常常紧张。如果你想练习英语，我也很愿意帮你改。
Jīnnián shì wǒ xué Zhōngwén de dì-èr nián. Wǒ fāxiàn zìjǐ néng kàndǒng de dōngxi yuèláiyuè duō le, kěshì shuōhuà de shíhou háishi chángcháng jǐnzhāng. Rúguǒ nǐ xiǎng liànxí Yīngyǔ, wǒ yě hěn yuànyì bāng nǐ gǎi.
This is my second year of learning Chinese. I find I can read more and more, but I still often get nervous when I speak. If you want to practise English, I am very happy to correct yours too.
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Lesson 23 of 27 in this chapter