{"id":1685,"date":"2009-01-02T12:58:34","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T03:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2009-01-02T12:58:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T03:58:34","slug":"lang-8-multi-lingual-social-network-service-for-learning-foreign-lanugages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/lang-8-multi-lingual-social-network-service-for-learning-foreign-lanugages\/","title":{"rendered":"Lang-8: Multi-lingual social network service for learning foreign lanugages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lang-8 is a unique social network service started by a young entrepreneur Youyou Ki who lieves in Kyoto, Japan.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lang-8.com\/\">Language Exchange SNS Lang-8<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1686\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/lang-8.jpg\" alt=\"lang-8\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nIt works in this way.<br \/>\n1.First join to the service.<br \/>\n2.Then write a diary in the language you&#8217;re learning.<br \/>\n3.Native spekers of that language who are aslo users of Lang-8 will correct your diary. This normally would not take more than 24 hours.<br \/>\n4. In return you will check other one&#8217;s diaries written in your mother-tongue language and correct them.<br \/>\nSo the cycle of\u00a0 good will are turning around by volunteer works of users.<br \/>\nKi Youyou was born in China and when he was 4 years old he moved to Japan and grew up in Japan.\u00a0 When he became a university student he visited China for a year\u00a0 and there he found his Chinese was not natural as natives.<br \/>\nHe started to write diaries in Chinese and asked his room mates to correct to imporve his language skill. This experience turned to the idea of Lang-8.<br \/>\nHe asked to his friend to develop Lang-8 and made it by customizing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openpne.jp\/\">OpenPNE<\/a>, an open source social network service platform. They launched the service in the summer of 2006 and now more than 100 thounsands users are joining to Lang-8.<br \/>\nThere are many free web services struggling to make benefits but Ki is quite optimistic for the future of Lang-8.<br \/>\n&#8220;In Lang-8, many talented users are joining.\u00a0 Many of them are bilingals so if you need someone to hire who can understand and make a communication between certain languages, Lang-8 would be a good to place to seek the one.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lang-8 is a unique social network service started by a young entrepreneur Youyou Ki who lieves in Kyoto, Japan. Language Exchange SNS Lang-8 It works in this way. 1.First join to the service. 2.Then write a diary in the language you&#8217;re learning. 3.Native spekers of that language who are aslo users of Lang-8 will correct&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/lang-8-multi-lingual-social-network-service-for-learning-foreign-lanugages\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lang-8: Multi-lingual social network service for learning foreign lanugages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,17,23],"tags":[2050,2051,2751,3395,3408,3423],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-japan","category-new-service","tag-language","tag-language-exchange","tag-openpne","tag-sns","tag-social-correction","tag-social-network","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}